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
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