The items below are available for use in promoting the Walk for Life.  We appreciate your help in recruiting walkers and sponsors to help us reach our goal of $35,000 in pledges.  Funds raised help provide complimentary services to the nearly 900 women and couples we serve each year.
Please feel free to use these tools in your church, small group, business or organization.  If you need a quantity of Pledge Forms, contact our office at 931.645.2273 and we will get them to you!

If you would like someone to come speak to a group of any size, please contact Martha Evans at marthahpc@gmail.com.  Thanks!

• Bulletin Insert/Small Flier – PDF prints two per 8.5″ x 11″ page

• Pledge Sheet – PDF 8.5″ x 14″

• Slide – PPT (Power Point)

• Slide – JPEG file
  

What a great time we had at the first annual Ride for Life!

Thanks so much to EVERYONE who made this event a success… the 120 or so riders who came out, our staff & volunteers, the gentlemen on the grill, the folks at Appleton Harley-Davidson, and our wonderful friends from Hope Riders Biker Church!  It was awesome, and we’re so glad!  We will definitely be doing this again next year, so mark your calendars now for the second weekend in April.

To see photos of the event, visit http://scott37040.zenfolio.com/rideforlife.  Photos are available for free download or for purchase at cost.  There are some great shots… thank you, Scott!

See you next year!!!

Thank you for registering for the first annual Ride for Life!   And thank you for choosing to submit your payment electronically.  All electronic donations and payments are processed through Pay Pal.  If you have any trouble completing this transaction, please contact our office at 931.645.2273.  We will be happy to assist you.

Ride for Life Registration

If you have not already registered for this event, click here to begin. Once your registration is complete, you will be redirected here to complete your transaction, if in fact you wish to pay electronically. Thank you!

If you HAVE registered, please indicate the total number of people participating in the Ride for Life and click “add to cart”. Proceed to checkout to complete your transaction. Thank you!

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If you would like to make an additional contribution to help Hope continue its mission of saving and changing lives, you may do so here.  Thank you for your consideration.

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Enter the amount of your contribution below and click “add to cart”.  All gifts are tax-deductible.

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We’re so excited about all the people who came out to walk with us on Saturday!  Thank you.  Together, you raised over $25,000 $26,000 in pledges!

We praise God for every sponsor, walker and volunteer who helped make this year’s walk a wonderful one.  Thank you for braving threatening weather and walking for LIFE (and thank You, Lord, for holding off most of the rain!).

While our total is a little shy of our goal, we know that additional pledges will come in.  Traditionally, anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 comes in following the event, as those who walked on their own drop off their pledges, or walkers collect additional pledges.  In fact, we’ve already had almost $1,000 come in the 2 days since the walk took place.  What a blessing!

With that in mind, if you didn’t get to walk or sponsor someone else, we invite you to consider giving a gift to bring us closer to our goal.  Just use the link below.  Thank you!

To give electronically, click here!

The number is shocking when you think about it.  As many as 43% of women – or about 2 out of 5 – will have had one or more abortions by the time they leave their childbearing years. Can you imagine?  I don’t know what that translates to in terms of hard numbers, but it’s staggering to consider.

What breaks my heart the most about these women is the fact that so many suffer in silence.  In more than 17 years of pregnancy ministry, I have spoken literally to hundreds of women who have experienced an abortion at some point in their lives.  So many tell me similar things… I think about it every day… I’ve never told anyone… How could God ever use someone who killed her child?

Will it surprise you to know that most of those things have been said by women I met while speaking in churches?  There are countless women… and men… sitting in local churches who have a secret.  At some point, before or after they came to know Christ, they participated in an abortion.  Or two.  Or more.  And while they have confessed that as sin and know intellectually that they are forgiven, they are held captive by the shame and pain and isolation brought on by what feels like an unforgivable act.

At Hope Pregnancy Center, we know there is no sin too great for God to forgive, and no pain to deep for Him to heal. That is why we offer Hope for Healing. This post-abortion healing program is designed to help those who are hurting find true healing through an in-depth study of God’s word.  It’s in the arms of Christ that we find true healing and restoration.

This 8-week Bible study is the centerpiece of the Hope for Healing program.  Not only are we offering this resource, we are determined to take it to the places where people are suffering in silence – the local church.  So often, we have a sense that the church is not a safe place to be broken.  Yes, those new to faith are given much grace as God goes about the work of cleaning up their lives.  But so many of us mistakenly believe that once we’re in the faith, we should have it all together.  And to show otherwise feels terrifying.

We want to be part of changing that. Throughout 2011, our Hope for Healing team will be presenting our program in various local churches.  Our heart is to showcase the need and the possibility for healing, and remove barriers between those who are hurting and the means of their healing.  Our prayer is that many will find freedom from a shame that has held them in bondage.  Will you pray with us?  And if you are one of those captives, will you consider taking a step of faith toward the God Who longs to restore this broken place?  There is Hope for Healing.  Truly.

For more information on Hope for Healing for you or someone you love, contact Jennifer at JT.hopeforhealing@gmail.com.

At last, our new site is up and running! We are still fleshing out some of the content, which will be obvious with even a cursory look through the site. While there’s still some work to do, I’m really excited about this more interactive format. I hope you’ll visit us often!

So, why the name “Speaking Hope” for our supporter site? One, it was available! So many great names were laid aside because someone else already came up with them. But that phrase, speaking hope, really resonated with me the first time I saw it. It’s such a picture of what happens here at the center.

At the core of ministry is the desire to speak truth into the lives of those we serve. As believers in Christ, we long to see others reconciled to God through a life-changing encounter with Jesus, the Word made flesh.

This is true of us here at Hope Pregnancy Center. We are dedicated to sharing truth with our clients – truth about sexuality, truth about the sanctity of all human life, and the ultimate truth of God’s free gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

Each of those messages is really one of hope. In our sex-saturated culture, it is possible to choose purity. There is hope. An unexpected pregnancy doesn’t necessarily mean a young woman’s life is over. There is hope. The stain of sin and its consequences are not permanent, this side of eternity. There is Hope – His name is Jesus.

Every day, our volunteers have the great privilege of speaking words of hope into the lives of those who are feeling hopeless. As we engage in the adventure called “ministry”, I invite you to join us. I’ll be faithful to share the victories and struggles we face. Perhaps you’ll be moved to pray for us and those we serve. Maybe you’ll want to get involved directly as a volunteer or donor. We’d be honored to partner with you.

Speaking HOPE,

Martha Evans

Executive Director