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     Thank you for your interest in our ministry.  As Executive Director of the Downtown Pregnancy Center I know I can speak for our staff, Board and volunteers in saying we consider it a privilege to serve in this ministry. It is our delight to see God transform and save the lives of the women He brings through our doors. We are continually amazed at the dire circumstances in which so many of our clients are trying to survive and awed at our God who makes provision regardless of those circumstances.

     In my years in pregnancy center ministry I have had some ask, “Why don’t you tell those girls to stop getting themselves into those kinds of situations? Can’t you just sit them down and tell them they are living in sin?”

     That seems like an easy solution, does it not? We could set everyone straight – in a hurry. Just tell them to stop doing what they’re doing. As a mother of teenagers I know that is not only ineffective, but it might not even be Biblical.

     Jesus addressed the situation of intimacy outside of marriage when he ministered to the Samaritan woman in John 4.  Instead of confronting her and pointing out her shortcomings, Jesus first offered her living water, which only He could offer. She was touched and amazed, and she wanted to hear more from this Man.

     Only after reaching out to her need did Jesus ask her to call her husband. We know the story; she had no husband, though she had been a wife to five different men. She – like many we see – was in the midst of yet another dead-end relationship, this time living with a man outside of marriage. Instead of condemning, Jesus actually complimented her for telling the truth about her failed past. What could have been a terribly humiliating moment turned into a life-changing encounter.

     Jesus’ compassionate demonstration of love made a way for transformation. Our message is the same – not one of condemnation, but of hope and joy as we offer living water. We are not here to avoid the truth, just as Christ did not, but to present that truth wrapped in love. So when a woman comes to us, we are reminded that while her choices may have put her in a difficult situation, she is not the first. A woman went to a well in Samaria , suffering in the consequences of her poor choices. When offered living water, a gift that brings life, she chose life.

     This is an example worth emulating and at the Downtown Pregnancy Center we seek to see this story come true again and again!

Serving Through His Love,

Carolyn Cline

Executive Director