Happy New Year! If you are like me, you are probably curious about what 2017 will bring. For Hope Women’s Centers, it brings our 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Our official birthday is January 17th and our big birthday party is March 27th at the Signature Grand and YOU are invited to join us as we reflect on 30 years of encouraging and equipping women to choose life. It promises to be an exciting year.
If you are a values voter and you voted for pro-life candidates last November, you may be anticipating smooth sailing in the pro-life arena. The Senate, the House, and the Oval Office will be in pro-life hands. Many have said it’s like the perfect pro-life storm that converges on January 20th, 2017 – just two days before the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. Like many in the pro-life community, I do believe that this is a huge deal. It is historic for the unborn. But before you relax and start to celebrate victory for unborn children, let me encourage you to consider that Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the liberal proponents of abortion-on-demand will not go quietly into the night.
I believe we will see the wrath of a storm we have never seen before. We are already seeing some of the wildest headlines we have ever seen. (Celebrating Christmas and Abortion Is the Same Thing, I Haven’t Had An Abortion, But I Wish I Had, New Movie Praises Planned Parenthood Founder As “Icon and Hero”) It is like we have wakened a sleeping bear. The radical opponents of life will stage a massive campaign to fight every pro-life initiative that is launched. They will demand that our tax dollars continue to fund abortion on demand. They want no protection for unborn life at any stage. They will come out with claws bared and snarling teeth and will challenge every organization that stands for life.
We don’t walk in fear, but we want to encourage you to stand with us to be strong and resolute as we enter this new year. We can’t sit back and trust the government to fight for the unborn. The pregnancy centers are where the spiritual battle is the strongest; we are fighting for the lives of the unborn, and we are sharing the Gospel with their parents. Why wouldn’t we expect fierce spiritual warfare? We need your prayers now, more than ever. We need additional volunteers now, more than ever. We need to stay strong financially now, more than ever. It is time to prepare for the gathering storm.
We have big, bold, exciting plans for 2017 – which is another reason we can anticipate rough weather! Our men’s ministry is already started, we roll out STI testing and treatment for all pregnancy test clients in January, a medical referral program for well-woman services, and have plans to open a new center in southwestern Broward County later in the year! Whew! It’s going to be a busy, exciting year and we are going to see thousands of lives saved and changed for all eternity! I hope you are excited about being a Partner in Hope.
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From Nancy McDonald, President/CEO
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