Changing Hearts, Creating Families

Our work is not just about saving one life, it's about saving as many lives as possible. When God is brought into a life and someone makes a courageous decision in trust it always effects everything around them. When a woman decides to keep her child, a beautiful miracle takes place. When her boyfriend and sometimes even her family gather around to support her, it is a host of incredible miracles that we are blessed to be a part of. Most of the time, a woman does not have the support of her baby daddy, at least initially. But when he comes into the picture, another great miracle has happened and beautiful family is formed. The family bonds are extra strong because of the strength, courage, and willpower it took them to make the decision they made.

Some of these situations look hopeless on the onset, but something have to continue to remember in every part of our work is...this isn't our work, it's God's, and nothing is impossible for God. It is in situations like this that I most especially see his power at work. Not just one life is saved, but three. And from what began as a lonely, hopeless and unhappy situation results in a uniquely beautiful expression of God's love: a family.

This picture is of our Brooklyn Center Director, Linda, with a "turnaround" family.