Pregnancy Care Centers have a unique role in outreach to the community. Besides providing counseling and help to unwed mothers, they also present the gospel to a segment of society that usually has little exposure to church. Although it shocked the Jewish leadership, Jesus purposefully and personally shared the hope of salvation with sinful women in His time on earth. Unfortunately, many believers have a list of excuses why they have never devoted any of their time to a local Pregnancy Care Center. Listed below are some practical suggestions on how you can get involved in this important ministry.
Find a Good Pregnancy Care Center
- Call Baptists for Life at 1-800-968-6086 or visit bfl.org to find a partnering Pregnancy Care Center near you.
- Look in your phone book or visit optionline.org to view all the Centers in your area. Call each PCC and ask about its mission statement and doctrinal position. Find a center that shares the gospel, as well as counsels women.
Fight Abortion without Leaving Home
- Become a prayer partner for your local PCC.
- Become a prayer partner for Baptists for Life. Visit bfl.org to receive BFL’s prayer requests from pro-life ministries around the world.
- Make a personal contribution and encourage your church to provide monthly support to a local, doctrinally sound PCC or Baptists for Life.
- Write or e-mail your local and state officials about pro-abortion bills.
- Write pro-life letters to the editor of your local newspaper.
- Instead of receiving personal gifts on your next birthday or at Christmas, ask your family and friends to give a gift to the local PCC in your honor.
- Knit or crochet baby blankets to give to a local PCC.
12 Easy Ways to Become More Involved in Pro-Life Ministries
- Donate baby items and maternity clothes to a PCC.
- Take hotline calls for a PCC one night a week.
- Befriend and mentor a young unwed mom.
- Volunteer at a local center one morning a week.
- At Christmastime, host a birthday party for Jesus. Ask moms and children to bring baby items to be donated to a PCC.
- Ask people having garage sales if they would be willing to donate to the local PCC any quality baby items that did not sell. Leave a card with the name and address of the local center.
- Volunteer to teach abstinence education in a public or private school.
- Have your Bible study group buy a baby dresser. Fill it with baby items to be given away to a PCC client who finishes a Bible study.
- Volunteer to teach parenting classes for young moms at a local college.
- Provide free babysitting for women who volunteer at the local PCC.
- Offer to house an unwed mom in your home.
- Get involved in a Sheltering Church Ministry. Find more details by visiting the Baptist for Life webpage at bfl.org.
