Message in a Bottle

Message in a Bottle

Last year over 100 churches completed a Baby Bottle Campaign, over 12,500 bottles were distributed and over $70,000 was raised. Many times we might receive checks or cash in the bottles instead of coins, however, in one bottle we received a special message from one of our donors. His note read: “I am adopted—so, that means I was not aborted. Now I was born in 1942 and I don’t know how many abortions were being done back then—but probably not many and as a result I was lucky to be adopted. I have never been able to find out who my biological parents are—the records were not kept very well back then with the war going on and all. The Lord blessed me and I am a Christian believer. I know this money will go to good use. In Christ’s Love.”

How great it was to find that message. Praise God for that mother who chose life for her son and for the family who adopted him. Even in 1942 God was at work in the lives of moms, dads and babies; not to mention families wanting to adopt babies. The donor called it luck that he was adopted and not aborted, but God would say it was simply His will being done. Now 68 years later we see how God’s will is always good, pleasing and perfect (Romans 12:2).

Abby Glasser

The Spill that Steals

If you own a television and have turned it on even once in the last two months, undoubtedly you've seen it. You've probably been as horrified as me watching the images of black, sticky crud violently spewing from the center of the earth into the beautiful, clear creation of God.

If you thought that the previous paragraph was about the BP oil spill, it wasn't! The images of the oil disaster are simply a perfect physical picture of the spiritual darkness spewing form the center of the earth into crystal clear creation threatening to pollute and steal the pure thoughts, mind and breath from all life it touches. The majority of our media and entertainment industry plays a unique roll in facilitating such dark, poisoning crud.

A key concept to all that we do at Pregnancy Care Center is to reveal the truth that concentrating only on the physical aspects of anything has us missing a huge part of the truth. Physically; there truly is a disastrous amount of dark "crud" spewing into culture. Ignoring the mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspect of any physical reality keeps us shallow and unhealthy; covered with a coat of crud that threatens to steal our lives. PCC is about the business of addressing disasters such as the effects of a massive "oil spill" of a more massive measure on a daily basis. The great news is we have a cleansing Savior that promises beauty for ashes!

Please join us in the clean-up effort! Whether financially, with your time, or with your talents, will you take a moment to pray about what role God would have you play to help mankind avert future, further disaster?

Tracey Pike, Director of Abstinence Education

Finding Forgiveness and Hope

This is an excerpt from the Abortion Recovery Bible Study, Prayer Intercessor Letter.

"Faith" seems to be glowing with the Holy Spirit. Her “breakthrough” last week has helped her to see more and more pieces of her life and how the many hurts and losses led her to sin. She has confessed her past sins and finds peace in knowing God has forgiven her. She stated she felt as if “a thousand pounds were lifted off her shoulders”.

She said the past week her soul has been grieving. But this is a cleansing for her and she feels relief and peace. She has never cried before like she has cried and it feels good to be able to release what she has always felt but she has never been able to express or let go until now.

Only God can do this and we praise Him! She is now working on forgiveness of those who have hurt her. She asks you to please pray she will be able to forgive all who have hurt her and that she will be able to let go of the hurt and pain. Pray too God will continue to reveal past memories necessary for her healing.

Join us in praying God's continued healing in the life of "Faith" and the other men and women currently going through the Forgiven and Set Free Bible Studies.

Old Book Brings New Possibilities

When material assistance volunteer Donna Gividen came across a Little Red Riding Hood Golden Book while sorting donations at the Bartholomew County Center, she had a hunch it was worth more than the 29 cent label on the cover.

"While the back cover had been ripped off, none of the pages had been cut out," Donna said referring to the fact that the book was filled with punch out paper dolls.

So she took the book to her friend Judy Bowman who deals frequently with Antiques. She told Donna that the book was a rare find indeed and offered to sell it for the PCC. The final bid? $50! That one little book was multiplied to allow us to purchase many little books for babies of our clients. What a find!

Driving Up Donations

Have a car you don’t need anymore? Don’t know quite what to do with it?

Avoid the numerous hassles of selling / trade-ins and help keep our ministry alive by donating your vehicle through our giving partner, idonate. Why?

- CONVENIENCE: you’ll receive free nationwide pick-up
- TAX DEDUCTION: based on the current IRS tax laws
- SIMPLICITY: avoid the hassle of resale or trade-in
- MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR GOOD: your donation will support our ministry

Our new giving process couldn’t be easier! All you need to do is gather your vehicle’s make, model, vehicle identification number and current mileage.

Visit our giving website and follow the steps to quickly submit your vehicle donation online. idonate will handle the rest of the details - turning your vehicle into a cash gift to our ministry. Questions? Call Abby at 812-378-4114.

Thanks for partnering with us so we can continue the work God has called us to do.

The Power of One

This may sound drippy, but have you ever sat down and thought about your impact on the lives of others? In the movie It's a Wonderful Life — one of my favorites I refer to often — we see the story of George Bailey, who through a series of events comes to see how incredibly vital he is to those around him.

We don't have an opportunity to go through town with an angel, showing us what life would be like without us. Instead we see through the glass darkly, as Paul says in I Corinthians 13. Yet even though we can't see it all, we do have God's promises, and story after story in Scripture of those who changed history by simply following God.

When we read these stories let's keep in mind that David was not "David" when he was out in the fields with the sheep. He wasn't out there thinking, "Well, this is the tough part of life, but one day the books of Samuel will chronicle my life for everyone to see." And Moses — when he faced down Pharaoh — had certainly heard from God but could not say, "Wow, Exodus is going to be a great book when this story hits the press." Moving to the New Testament, what about Peter? When he was denying the Lord, he wasn't thinking about how his would be a grand story of redemption. Peter was frightened and he denied the Lord rather than risk his life, not knowing whether he had any future at all. Later he would preach one of the most effective sermons of all time, in the Book of Acts. Even then, he had no idea of the impact of his life. Nor did Stephen, who died at the hands of his persecutors. Or Saul, who became Paul. They were all regular people loving and serving God in any way they could.

And that's us. We too are regular folks, doing what we believe are simple acts of faithfulness in a love relationship with our Leader, the Lord Jesus Christ. When times get tough, let's keep in mind that we have some great company. There won't be another Bible to chronicle our lives, but there is a cloud of witnesses (Heb. 12:1). And as we serve, they smile.

Kirk Walden