An unwanted pregnancy can literally change the course of a woman's life. Maybe she had well-laid plans for the future or has relational problems with the father of the child. Perhaps she worries about the huge responsibility or fears the financial liability. Current social mores put enormous pressure on a woman to have an abortion. "After all," she is told, "the fetus is just a blob of tissue." 

The Crisis Pregnancy Center is a non-profit, volunteer Christian agency that offers truthful information explaining the risks and dispeling the myths about having an abortion.  They also provide the assistance and support a woman in a crisis pregnancy needs in order to bring her baby to term. All free of charge. Read real-life testimonies of lives deeply affected by the choice they made at

 

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Along Side Ministries
Do you remember reading about Flower's prison conversion to Jesus and her mother's subsequent salvation on Easter Sunday in the August Bethany eNews? Well, here's an update.
 
Flower's mother took four of her Wiccan friends to a tent revival meeting. Three of the ladies left saved. It's like a domino effect.  Flower gets out of prison in December and plans to continue with her Along Side Ministries mentor for at least six months afterward. 
 
-Alice Garner

 

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Geoff and Shannon Husa and their family are back from Papua New Guinea for a year of home ministry.  To help them get settled in, the combined Husa and Tartaglia core groups worked together to organize and prepare the Bethany mission house for their arrival.  They also helped stock the house through poundings, a term Kris Husa uses to describe people bringing a pound of a selected item to stock the shelves.
 
Over 30 people came together to help out, including kids and several spouses that are not part of the core teams themselves.  Project lists were distributed and everyone got to work--including the kids.
 
Windows were cleaned (inside and out); electronic devices checked; books dusted; cushions, blinds and baseboards vacuumed; shelves repaired; artificial plants hosed off; puzzles and games cleaned and checked for missing pieces; plumbing leaks identified and fixed; and a host of other things.  One woman even did a masterful job of cleaning and re-caulking the showers--a job which would have cost $250. And, the man who gave that estimate repaired the broken garage door free of charge.
 
One woman commented that she had been prepared to spend all weekend to get the house in order, but the combined efforts of these teams accomplished all this in just a few hours.
 
Through the serving hearts of these wonderful volunteers, a place was prepared to warmly welcome home more servants in God's Kingdom.  And, through your generosity, $200 worth of gift cards will help Geoff and Shannon set up their home here in Tempe.
 
- Karen Ulmer