Annual Walk for Life at Kennywood is May 17! Get Registered TODAY!

Join us for the Annual Walk for LIFE at Kennywood!  

Registration: $26  REGISTER & FUNDRAISE HERE!!

Check-in begins at 8:45 a.m. at the front gate.

Walk begins at 9:30 a.m. inside the park at Kandy Kaleidoscope.

Pavilions 14 & 15 are reserved all day for PRC Walk for Life Participants.

COMPETE FOR GREAT PRIZES!

Walkers, whose support is collected by or turned in to the PRC by noon, May 17th, will be eligible for prizes. Prize categories are: individual, school, church, youth group, and team (family, bible study, group of friends, etc.)

• Registration fee is $26; registration includes an all-day ride pass to Kennywood, walk t-shirt, PRC draw-string bag and water bottle*. $26 is also the fee for family members or friends who are coming to the park but not raising support.
• If you are unable to attend the walk at Kennywood Park, continue to register as a walker, raise support and walk at a location of your choosing.
• We will walk come rain or shine. If Kennywood decides to close the park due to weather, they will distribute rain check tickets that have the same terms of use as the tickets you will get from the walk.
• Pre-walk music will be provided by Pittsburgh worship band Intent. 
• Frequently Asked Questions here!

*You must register by April 18th to be guaranteed a walk t-shirt and bag

*Registration has been extended until May 9, but you are not guaranteed a walk tee shirt and bag. 

Go to www.prcsh.org for more information or call Lisa at 412-833-5309!!!

Important Links:

Register HerePRCSH WebsiteFAQs HerePRCSH Facebook 

Announcing a Post Abortion Group Starting in March 2014

Without question, abortion can be one of the most traumatic experiences in a woman's life. Research shows that more than 43% of women have experienced its pain. Many women hide the secret and carry incredible burdens while wearing smiles on their faces.

Many of these women suffer from Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS), which is a type of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  It occurs when a woman is unable to work through her emotional responses due to the trauma of an abortion.

Women are often surprised to find that abortion can be a traumatic experience. Generally, women are not encouraged to share their responses to the abortion. Often it is kept a secret, and a woman is left alone with her feelings. The grief a woman may experience after an abortion is seldom recognized and is often repressed or denied. PAS occurs when the grieving process is not completed. Our society is just now beginning to recognize the need to grieve a miscarriage, but because abortion is considered a voluntary act, a women’s grief after an abortion is not understood or supported.

Common PAS symptoms include:

• Sadness
• Guilt
• Anger
• Depression
• Drug/Alcohol addiction
• Eating Disorders
• Suicidal thoughts
• Difficulty maintaining close relationships
• Flashbacks

Some women experience PAS symptoms within months of the abortion. For others, the crisis occurs two to five years after the abortion — at the time the normal grieving process would have been completed. Sometimes women don’t experience PAS symptoms for 10, 20, or 30 years because they are unable to deal with the deep emotions caused by the abortion. 

The Pregnancy Resource Center is offering a free 9-week Bible study entitled "Surrendering The Secret," a powerful study that helps women who have experienced abortion find the path to healing through an honest, interactive and confidential group bible study.

If you or someone you know is suffering in silence, it is time to surrender the secret and find the healing forgiveness God desires for you.

Dates: Weekly - beginning Monday, March 31, 2014

Time: 6:30 -8:30 p.m.

Where: The Pregnancy Resource Center

Registration is required, and space is limited.

To register or for more information, contact Lisa at 412-833-5309 or e-mail: helplineprcsh@comcast.net

For more details, download a Surrender the Secret Brochure here.  

Abolitionist Calling - A Call to "Awake My Soul" - PRC Banquet - November 14

What would you do during a period of great injustice? In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that black people, both the slave and the free, were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens, denying them personhood. In 1973, forty years ago this year, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, like Dred-Scott, essentially declared that a child in the womb is not a person and, therefore, not “endowed with the inalienable right to life” promised by our founding documents; they are not protected by the Constitution.

Defenders of slavery justified it by asserting that blacks were not fully persons, particularly in comparison to whites. Defenders of abortion justify it by asserting that the unborn baby is not fully a person, particularly in comparison to those living outside of the womb.

A mission field has been created by abortion. It is a mission field noticeably devoid of God’s people. The excuses are numerous and most center around the idea that abortion is a political, legislative or judicial issue. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of life. This places abortion squarely in the category of sin and Biblical injustice and, therefore, is preeminently a Gospel matter.

We are living in the most critical hour of injustice in history. We are not allowed to stand by and do nothing. Proverbs 24:11-12 says, “Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die; save them as they stagger to their death. Don’t excuse yourself by saying, ‘Look, we didn’t know.’ For God understands all hearts, and he sees you. He who guards your soul knows you knew. He will repay all people as their actions deserve.”

Abolitionist Calling is a stirring call to action that is bound to “awaken your soul” and cause Christians to rise up and act against the greatest injustice in the history of the world. Do we wish to be viewed by God and historians as a generation of Christians whose silence was deadly to the unborn image-bearers of our God? 

Will you stand with us as modern-day abolitionists against the greatest injustice of our time – abortion?

Join us on Thursday, November 14^th at Heinz Field’s East Club for our Celebration Banquet. Bring your friends, family members or co-workers to hear this stirring message by Michael Homula, former Director of ICU Mobile.  Bring those who would be willing to stand with us to “Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die.” 

Today is the day to rise up.

His for Life, 

Lori 

“Awake My Soul”

You are cordially invited to

The Pregnancy Resource Center’s

Annual Celebration Banquet

Thursday, the fourteenth of November

Two-Thousand and Thirteen

Doors will open at six-fifteen in the evening

East Club at Heinz Field

Call 412-833-7445 to R.S.V.P.

PRC Banquet - November 14 - Awake My Soul

  

      

AWAKE MY SOUL

Thursday, NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We are excited to share that we will be returning to the East Club at Heinz Field, once again this year!

Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Sit-down dinner served at 7:00 p.m.

with the program immediately following.

Guest Speaker Michael Homula, former Executive Director of ICU Mobile

To read more about the message Michael shares click here

 
RESERVE YOU TABLE NOW!

Table sponsorship opportunities are available:

$10,000 - $5,000 - $2,500 - $1,000 - $450

As a Table Sponsor, you will receive priority seating for ten guests. Invite new or previous attendees to be a part of your table. In addition, Table Sponsors will be listed in the event program and their tables will be recognized as a ministry partner. Table sponsorship is considered to be an investment in the ministry. This means that 100% of the sponsorship will go directly into the ministry of the PRC. Call for more information about becoming a table sponsor.

Our banquet is the most important fundraiser of the year for the Pregnancy Resource Center, and a financial appeal will be made. A reservation is required for each guest planning to attend. R.S.V.P.'s will be taken on a first-come first-serve basis. General seating is limited.

Call 412-833-7445 to reserve your table! 

A client story - life changed and baby saved.

“How can I ever tell my mother?” Our 17 year old client said, tears spilling down her cheeks. She was quiet and shy, and you could hardly hear her voice. She seems to have made herself as small as possible. Her mother did not even know about her three-year relationship with her much-older boyfriend and, if she did, would never approve, according to our client. She was raised in the church and knows that premarital sex is not what God wants for her. All of these concerns seem to have pressed her down into a tiny, fragile, hurting girl.

For three months, she continued to visit the Homestead Center for various medical needs, ultrasound and counseling. Each time she met with us we continued to guide her toward telling her mother, getting insurance, finding a doctor and involving the baby’s father in the process. She listened. We stayed alongside her as she walked toward responsibility, building right relationships with her family and boyfriend.

When I first met this client, I was touched by her quiet gentleness and her childlike trust. Today, we would do her second ultrasound. She had seen the tiny shape and heartbeat of her baby on a previous ultrasound, but she was only seven weeks along then. Today, she would be fourteen weeks.

When I first put the probe on her abdomen she was a little startled to see how big the baby was now. She kept smiling and shaking her head. The baby’s head, face, arms and legs were clearly visible, and the baby was very active, kicking and turning. As I carefully measured, the baby turned and put its tiny hand against the probe. We both gasped. The baby did it a second time; neither time I had been able to capture the image. Then, a third time: the little hand pressed clearly against the wall of the uterus, and I took the image. Each tiny, perfectly-formed finger was clearly visible. It was a holy moment.

From showing the image of her baby’s hand to the counseling, medical care, encouragement, material assistance, childbirth and parenting classes-we walk alongside of our precious clients and their children.

Our client finally told her mother. Her mother responded by moving them to a bigger home for everyone to welcome the new life into their family. 

Day of Giving - October 3

The Pregnancy Resource Center is pleased to announce our participation in the Pittsburgh Foundation’s Day of Giving on October 3, 2013.  The Day of Giving is a ONE DAY giving event and a unique opportunity to MAXIMIZE your donation!  For every gift received, the Pittsburgh Foundation will supplement your gift with a portion of the match pool!

All you need is the internet, your credit card, and a heart to give to the PRC!

Your ‘How-To’ Guide for Day of Giving 2013:

1.      The Day of Giving 2013 will be held on Wednesday, October 3, 2013 from 12:00 a.m. ET until 11:59 p.m. ET.  Early or late donations are not eligible for the supplemental gift!

2.      Go to Pittsburghgives.org on OCTOBER 3, 2013.  Use the drop down menu to select the Pregnancy Resource Center DONATE on OCTOBER 3 ONLY using your VISA or MASTERCARD.

3.      The minimum gift is $25. There is no limit to the amount of money you may give to each organization. All donations are for operating support; you cannot designate a specific program.

How your gift is supplemented:

The Pittsburgh Foundation will divide a total of $750,000 among the participating Allegheny County nonprofits.  As an example only, if $8,000,000 total is raised on a day of giving, and the match pool is $750,000, then the match percentage is 9% or .09 cents on the dollar.  The Foundation will match up to the first $1,000 of the gift, and your organization will receive the donations net of the credit card fee plus the full match percentage.

 

How your gift is credited:

Each gift is 100% tax deductible. The credit card charge will display as a donation to “The Pittsburgh Foundation” on the donor’s credit card statement.  After approximately 30 days, the Pregnancy Resource Center will receive one check with all donations designated to our organization, plus the match portion along with donor information within 30 days of the event’s end.

It’s that easy!

A Life Rescued...

It began with a simple Google search which led to a phone call. What transpired after that is all because of God's work and your partnership to support HIS ministry!

Just a few months away from turning twenty, life was going so well for our client.  She had met her boyfriend a year earlier and she was set to graduate.

Our client and her boyfriend were very serious in their relationship, had talked of marriage someday, and were essentially living together.  Everything seemed to be coming together just as our client had always planned, until she missed a period, then had a positive home pregnancy test.

Now she was searching the internet for information on abortion and RU-486.

When our client called the phone number she found on the internet, a sister center in the Pittsburgh area answered.   They talked with her and ultimately made her an appointment with the PRC in Homestead.

During their appointment our client and her boyfriend met with one of our counselors.  She helped them think through their choices and what their lives would be like.  She then recommended they have an ultrasound to which our client agreed.  I could tell from that first meeting that they were young and scared.   At this point, our client was still very abortion determined, but there were two problems:  her boyfriend was not convinced they should abort and our client was simply too far along in her pregnancy to take the abortion pill.

So while our client began her ultrasound, a male counselor spoke with her boyfriend.  The boyfriend told him that he thought they should keep the baby and that he wanted to marry his girlfriend.  Our counselor encouraged him in his desire to be a husband and a father, sharing some of his own experiences.  Our counselor also encouraged him to seek out God and to honor the way God tells us to live.

During the ultrasound, our client was shocked to see how big and active the baby was.  At 10 weeks their little one was kicking its arms and legs, sucking its thumb and turning somersaults!  We brought her boyfriend into the room to see his child shortly thereafter and the couple was in complete awe.  Holding pictures of their baby, they then watched a video of fetal development on the center’s iPad.   Both our client and her boyfriend said they had no idea that babies were really babies at this stage of the pregnancy.  It was at that point that their decision was made.

They would keep their baby.

I am thankful for each step of this beautiful story of a rescue that was engineered by our Lord.    From the internet, to our sister center, to the Homestead center, He ordained it all.  Thanks to Him, a life has been rescued.

Cyndi, Nurse Manager

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.                                                   2 Thessalonians 1:11