Our friends at Shades Mountain Baptist Church recently showered our Gift of Birth graduates with love, in a safety-minded “drive-through” baby shower.
We our so blessed that our moms can continue learning and preparing for a healthy birth through online group classes, and that dear friends of the ministry are willing to show up and bless them with the items they need for their babies.
Jesus sees the love you show to the “least of these” little ones, and their sweet moms. Thank you!
Back in March, we consolidated all our clinic services in the Vestavia location to keep our core team operating during “essential service” restrictions. That’s been a great benefit to our merger process, as it has forged deep bonds between the Vestavia and Fultondale staff.
We need our two locations as much as ever! Now that state restrictions are being eased, we’ve begun ramping up our operations as close to “normal” as we can, while still protecting our staff, volunteers, and especially our clients.
The current plan for phasing in operations is as follows:
On June 1, we reopened both clinics with reduced hours. Volunteers were invited to return as they felt comfortable doing so, based on their personal & family health needs.
Beginning today, we are open for our regular business hours:
Our group EWYL classes will continue to be online only, while one-on-one mentoring will resume in person with appropriate parameters.
We will continue to use the safety and hygiene precautions developed by our medical team:
If you are a regular volunteer and have not yet made a decision about returning, please know that we welcome your help, but we encourage you to put your safety and comfort first. Please prayerfully consider when it may be prudent for you personally to return. We will be fine without you until that time!
Whether you are ready to return in June or would rather wait, please contact Courtney and let her know what your plans are.
Back in March, we couldn’t envision all the changes that would happen for our city and our ministry in a few short months. But we knew that our Gift of Birth graduates would be having big changes in their lives very soon!
Congratulations to Valeria, LeTisha, Aretha, and Kayla! And thank you so much to the members of Graysville First United Methodist Church for showering these moms from our Fultondale class with love.
There were lots of laughs.
And plenty of surprises.
And all kinds of gifts, from the most practical to special one-of-a-kind items.
And of course, prayers for these these families to know God better, and continue in His grace and care.
Thank you!
Hosting a shower is a tremendous blessing to our clients, and the classes they take are a major opportunity to speak life into their relationships and families. Is your Bible study or ministry group ready for a special project?
Check out our most recent drive-thru shower to see how you can serve these special moms with strong medical safety precautions.
And watch this video to find out more about what it takes to be a shower host:
Thank you to Mountaintop Community Church for providing a safe and generous baby shower for our Gift of Birth graduates Lauren, LaCharo, Jontyse, and Jennifer!
Our hosts and guests took precautions to protect moms, dads, and those precious babies while they celebrated the hard work they’d done in class and the new life on the way.
There were prayers.
And words of wisdom.
And joyful celebration.
And of course, gifts to bless these families with the practical items they need for baby.
Thank you!
Hosting a shower – even a virtual or “drive-thru” event – is a tremendous blessing to our clients, and the classes they take are a major opportunity to speak life into their relationships and families. Is your Bible study or ministry group ready for a special project?
Watch this video to find out more about what it takes to be a shower host:
You’re invited to join all of the Pregnancy Centers in Alabama (their staff, volunteers, board, supporters, etc) today for a day of prayer. The goal is to have 12 straight hours of prayer for life! Vestavia and North Jefferson are scheduled for the 10 am hour. The image below gives some ideas for how to pray specifically and also lists the other centers who are participating. Of course you are more than welcome to pray anytime.
Speaking of prayer, in the recent newsletter you received an invitation to submit a prayer for life to be included in a prayer guide we are creating. If you did not receive the information, please contact Lisa to let her know.
It’s been a big week! We are seeing those isolation pregnancies appearing now. The phone is ringing like crazy! Some awesome victories this week as well as some sad stories and questionable outcomes. Please keep praying.
Thank you for the continued encouragement in the form of sweet cards, delicious lunches, phone calls and masks! They are all appreciated.
Thank you for your continued prayers as we seek to be the source of light and hope for women in unplanned pregnancies. We’ve been exceptionally busy as many clients are even more panicked because of the uncertainty of the future.
God is showing up powerfully, and we are very grateful to be a part of that. Recently, we had a day where all five of our scheduled clients walked in abortion-minded, and walked out planning to parent their babies. We know this fruit is due to His faithfulness and your dedicated prayers.
To celebrate the power of prayer, we’d like to create a collection of Prayers for Life. Sharing a resource like this can help unify us in interceding for the unborn, and grow the Body of Christ in our commitment to the sanctity of Life. Would you help?
Please help us build the collection by contributing a short written prayer for unborn children, their parents, and those who support them. You can email your prayer to Volunteer1@savalife.org, with the subject line “Prayers for Life.”
Some possible topics might be:
We’re excited to see how God will answer our prayers together.
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask,
it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.”
— Matthew 18:19