Defenders of the Weak

written by Christy Shaw, Volunteer Coordinator

Recently, many of our staff members were able to attend the Indiana Association of Pregnancy Centers  (IAPC) conference in Indianapolis. The opening devotion was a thought provoking pep talk, steering us forward in the battle we are in daily, as we serve in our communities. I wanted to share some of the statements made, to encourage you in your service here at the PCC, no matter what role that may be. We greatly appreciate and admire the time and efforts given by faithful supporters and volunteers who are “Defenders of the Weak”!

In working with the PCC, you are given the chance each shift to compassionately engage with many stories. In response to those stories, you are obeying scripture in many ways:

• God is a “Father” that looks after, protects, defends, and provides for the “fatherless”. Our clients may have biological fathers, but the PCC steps in to be a supportive, spiritual, and emotional “father” to them.
• God looks after our clients, and you do also by listening to and providing for them in their time of need.
• God commands us to look after the widow and orphaned. A part of PCC’s mission is to serve the babies and clients who are abandoned. 
• You care for the most powerless, voiceless, most vulnerable group in the world – the unborn child. That is close to God’s heart!
• You serve the margins of society, ones without resources, support, and who are alone and afraid.
• You are pushing back on evil by affirming life through your compassionate engagements, education, and inspiration! 
• You are caring for the vulnerable and defending a growing culture of death. 

When you serve “the least of these", you are most like Jesus! In Matthew 25:40 God tells us that when we serve the weak, we are serving Him by meeting the immediate needs of those who are hungry, thirsty, estranged, needing clothed, sick and in prison. PCC definitely sees people daily who are sick and in bondage to sin. They are in desperate need of love and service, so that our deeds can point them to the One who is the Lover of their souls. I cannot think of a better way to show them God’s love than to meet them right where they are in desperate need of Hope!

I am so glad God meets us where we are and we do not have to become a perfect person before He starts perfecting us! His grace knows no abounds! Amen!

Never grow tired of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9