One of CPBC's favorite ministries is supporting A Caring Place, which is a crisis pregnancy center here in Eastern Cincinnati. We praised the Lord yesterday with the statistics that 48 women came to the center abortion-minded in 2011, but only 4 of those women had abortions performed in the end! We would obviously love to have zero of the women follow through with those abortions; however, kudos to the great work that the volunteers and staff do over at A Caring Place, for talking so many women into carrying their babies full-term! Special honor goes to my friends Wanda Field and Jennifer Schott, who regularly work there.
As a support for ACP, our church gives out baby bottles every January that people take home for a month, collect money in, and then return. The money collected is used to support A Caring Place - including its ultrasound machine to show women the life that is within them; diapers, clothes, and baby goods to help those moms support their babies; classes to instruct moms on how to take care of those babies, etc.I was thrown back when both John and Anna wanted to take a baby bottle home. (Infact, I was honestly a little embarassed that people would think we were letting our kids waste the bottles that others could be using to collect money.) But God showed me that I should let Him work. Both kids ran home from church, went straight to their piggy banks, got out their own money (pictured above), and stuffed their bottles with as much cash and change as they could get in them. Without prompting. I could have cried. Neither child fully understands the horror of abortion, but they understand that they are helping babies whom Jesus loves, and whom He does not want to die. John even wrote a note and put in his bottle, thinking that the money would go straight to a needy mom, asking the mom who gets his bottle to come to church with us.
It's a good day to be a mom...
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