Wednesday's Challenge: Almsgiving

Today's challenge is to donate items, money, time or talent to a local pregnancy center.


Here is a link to an article calling for God's workers to help those in a challenging position who might be open to having an abortion.  http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/post/2011/01/17/God-at-work-in-pregnancy-centers.aspx




I wanted to add this because it is very upsetting to me.  I do realize that others do not share my passion for life. I accept that and do not have a problem discussing my views with others who disagree with me.  I know people on both sides of the arena a passionate about what they believe and I try to not let my passion get carried away in my discussions.   I try not to take the affront personally.

I was looking up some reference information on pregnancy resource centers for today.  What I found was site after site slamming on the work that they do, challenging the need and the effect they have and spread more false information about Planned Parenthood and their agenda. 

As someone who was adopted and who spent a semester volunteering with a pregnancy center, and who also has had more friends then she cares to count who have had abortions and has listened to the pain and torment from people who are still dealing with the affects of abortions even 20 ears later....I am totally miffed by the the attitudes that I see.  I am only posting one article, but for that one, I probably read 20 others like it.  And the only positive one was the one I posted above.  I was shocked by the blatant twisting of information, but I was devastated by the comments that people wrote afterward.  http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/news/story.asp?id=12977

I realize that not all pregnancy centers are the same, and that there are most likely some that are overbearing and more pressuring than they should.  I also believe that there are most likely some people that work at Planned Parenthood that do care about women and are interested in helping them make the best decisions for themselves.  I just wonder how we get through all the false information and heated feelings and anger and malice and get back to helping the women and babies who need it?