True Love...Patience, Kindness, Truth and Hope

When clients come through the doors at the Pregnancy Care Center, we want them to sense what true love is while they are with us. We want them to see patience, kindness, truth and hope. And in the end we want them to see Jesus Christ and His love for them. As one client recently wrote on her feedback form, "No one has ever made me feel more cared about than the people working here. You guys are life savers. The help I received today meant the world to me, thank you." What a blessing to love others as Jesus Christ has loved us and called us to love.

Lives Are Truly Changed!

It is an amazing gift from God to get a note like I did from a student at Columbus Behavioral Health facility a few days ago. I had a young woman walk up to me on the second day after class and tell me, “I am a virgin because of you!” I thanked her and wondered how that could be true since I’d only been with her for 2 days, but she went on to explain, and later wrote me a note on a card that was given to the students to ask questions that explains what she told me. Her card read:

“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 4 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.”

WOW!!! Rarely do we get that kind of peek into the impact we, as a ministry, are really making by way of preventative measures! This note is a precious, tangible tool we can use to make sure all who support our ministry realize the value and affect of our mission; Lives are truly changed!

Tracey Pike
Choose to Wait Educator

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!