The Heart of a Child

As the Walk for Life draws near, many have begun to raise funds including a young girl who loves the Pregnancy Care Center.

"My 10 year old daughter asked me months ago if she could be the one from our family to raise money and walk in this year’s walk-a-thon. Of course I said yes – and she’s been asking regularly if it is time yet. When (we got a call from the PCC that) it was indeed time, Rachael got right to work. She set a goal of raising $200. After the first day it became apparent that she’d meet that goal very soon, so she decided to move her goal to $300. I told her that was a lot of money, but she was just sure that God would provide. What a step of faith for a child! After 2 days of fundraising, she met that goal too!!! How beautiful that God is showing her his provision when she does take that step of faith. Just had to share how God is at work even in these early days of fundraising...and in the heart of a child who desires to support the PCC."


Praise God for Rachel's heart for God and for the ministry of the Pregnancy Care Center. If you would like to also begin raising funds for the October 15th Walk for Life, visit our web site at www.affirminglifeonline.com for more information or to print off a pledge sheet.

Choose to Wait Needs You!

Pregnancy Care Center’s Choose to Wait programs provide vital information for students to make healthy choices and practical tools for setting healthy boundaries that brings life and health to their future. Reaching over 6,000 students in 42 schools last year, Choose to Wait partners with parents, teachers and schools to deliver information our culture has withheld about the value of teen’s healthy decision-making.


You are invited to prayerfully consider if God is calling YOU to join the ranks of our team in delivering these invaluable programs. Join us for a special training to equip those interested in speaking truth to students across South Central Indiana.

Training to be a speaker for the Choose to Wait 6th grade program:

Thursday, September 8th at 6 pm
Memorial Baptist Church, Columbus

Training to be a speaker for the Choose to Wait High School program:
Tuesday, September 6th at 6 pm
Memorial Baptist Church, Columbus

Training to be a speaker for the Choose to Wait Middle School program:
Thursday, September 1st at 6 pm
Memorial Baptist Church, Columbus

Thank You!

Our Choose to Wait presenters were recently back in the classroom for summer school, thanks to the continued support of those who sustain the work of our ministry. One of the students slipped a note to the presenter concerning the impact the program had on her life. We’d like to pass her words on to you, as they are a credit to the work we have accomplished together:



“I’m a junior now, but my freshman year I was going to lose my [virginity] to ‘the most amazing boy ever’ (I found out he really wasn’t) and then you came in four days before it was gunna happen and changed my mind. I’m still a virgin. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be, so thank you.”



In case you ever doubt that your support and contribution is really saving and changing lives please accept this thank you note from a student as assurance that it is. Thank you for believing in and investing in the lives of young people. Your support is truly changing lives!

Jackson County Center Receives Help from Camp Awestruck

Before Picture of the Center

After Picture of the Center

The Jackson County Pregnancy Care Center was recently blessed when two groups of high school students from Awestruck, a summer camp held at Camp Lakeview, spent four days painting our new Center. The Seymour Tribune Newspaper wrote an article on the group and the help they provided the ministry. You can view that article here. We are grateful for the beautiful servant's hearts of these young people and impact their service made on making the outside of the Center a more inviting place for clients to want to visit!

Is a Sexual Integrity Program for 6th Graders REALLY Necessary?

Perhaps the answer to this question can best be found among the anonymous feedback forms collected from the 8^th grade Choose to Wait program last year:

• 13 year old, Bartholomew County Student: “She answered every question that I was thinking about.”
• 14 year old, Brown County Student: “I might have had sex before, but me and my b.f. talked and we want to wait…”
• Unidentified Jennings County Student: “I wish I would have had a chance to hear all this a long time ago.”
• Unidentified Jennings County Middle School student: “I am glad she said what she said before I would have messed up.”

Our culture and media has bombarded children with a great deal of sexual imagery and dysfunctional ideas about relationships and romantic expectations. For the past 18 years, the Pregnancy Care Center’s Choose to Wait (CTW) program has teamed with educators to expose the misinformation students believe, and reveal and empower the precious truth of their inherent value and worth when it comes to their sexuality.

The Pregnancy Care Center recently designed a CTW program for 6^th graders. Some question whether it is necessary to talk with this age-group about such topics. CTW 6^th grade is a preventative program with a goal of reaching adolescents prior to them engaging in relationships so they have a foundation of truth to build upon. It is essential that young students receive engaging, factual information to address the issue of living a life of sexual integrity and are given permission to buck the social trends and value them-selves. The CTW 6^th grade program gives students factual, age-appropriate information and tools to identify trusted adults in their lives that can assist them in maneuvering through a time filled with innocent confusion and many questions.

We are proud to be a positive voice offering factual information and preventative tools for young students to address their health in not only a physical perspective; but a mental, emotional, social and ethical perspective as well.

It isn’t just necessary, it is healthy, good and right to take back territory on a topic the world has exploited for far too long! We owe it to our children to guide them through puberty with truth, dignity, respect, and encouragement that there is beauty and excitement on the other side of this unique time in their lives.

Tracey Pike, Choose to Wait Educator