Abortion Alternatives & Women's Center

Urgent & Immediate Needs

Angie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:23:30 +0000

Our Center is in an urgent and immediate need of new tires for our RV. The RV is an important part of many of our programs, but especially our summer food program. Without new tires for the RV we will be unable to deliver meals to the children this summer. We are also in need of the following regular canned goods green beans, corn, carrots and large sized cans of chicken noodle soup and raviolli. We also need peanut butter and snack foods such as goldfish, graham crackers, saltine crackers, pudding and granola bars.

Pure Talent & Fashion Show

Angie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:21:57 +0000

In April we will be hosting our annual Pure Talent Show. The event will be held on Saturday, April 30th at T.A. Dugger Jr. High School. Open Try-outs for the show will be held at Lonestar in Eliz. on Thurs., April 7th from 6-8pm. We will going around to all Carter County Schools for try-outs on April 8th, 11th and 12th. The Talent and Fashion shows are open to all students in 7th-12th grades at any high school in Elizabethton or Carter County as well as to students in those grades who are home-schooled. The talent show will feature singing and dancing as well as a variety of other talents and beauty/fashion. There will be a table of judges for the talent show but the audience will also be able to judge the performances. First place of solo talent will win a CD recording. We will be signing up volunteers to participate in the fashion show. This event is not a fundraiser. The purpose of the event is to help these teens see the beauty of their talents and help build their self esteem. Prizes will be given out at the event. We are currently looking for volunteers to help with both aspects of the event. Contact our Center for more information on how you can help.

Consignment Sale Event

Angie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:40:29 +0000

Don’t forget that in April, Puddle Jumpers will be sponsoring a week-long consignment sale at the National Guard Armory here in Elizabethton.
At the end of the week, the individuals bringing the items will be given the opportunity to donate their unsold items to our Center and to the local schools. Items which can be used by the center (such as baby items and maternity clothes) will be donated to our center while items for older-aged children will be donated to the local schools. For more information contact Rachael at (423) 895-1293.

Urgent Prayer Request

Angie — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:56:54 +0000

Recently our Center came in contact with a young woman who was greatly in need of our help. She had just given birth and due to her drug addiction, her child was born detoxing. The baby was placed into state’s custody by the Department of Children’s Services . This young woman wanted help with her addiction but she did not have support from family or friends to get the help she so desperately needed. We were able to help this young woman get accepted to a private Christian-based in-house drug treatment program. Please remember this young woman in your prayers as she fights to battle her addiction and remember her child also that it thrives until she is able to change her life and be a mother.

A Note From Our Director

Angie — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:43:08 +0000

I have recently been hearing rumors that a local doctor who performs abortions at a local abortion clinic had stopped performing abortions. Rather than just take for granted that this was in fact true, I decided to go and speak with this physician to see if he had in fact stopped performing abortions. This doctor met with me and we discussed abortions and the conversation that we had disturbed me greatly and I am asking that you join me in prayer for this individual and the situation as a whole. While speaking with the doctor, he stated to me that according to Biblical scripture he would not be “held accountable” for any abortions that he was still performing or for any which he had performed in the past. During our conversation, this doctor cited the fol¬lowing scripture to me from Exodus 21 verse 22-25: “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” This doctor in quoting this verse to me claimed that the verse freed him from any accountablility for the innocent lives lost as a result of the abortions which he performs. I, however, do not interpret this verse in the same way in which he does. What this verse shows me is not a clearing of his accountability, but rather the exact opposite. This verse shows me just what an abomination that the Lord finds the death of an innocent child at the hands of another person. This verse, to me, shows that doctors who perform abortions will be held accountable in the eyes of God for their actions. While there at his office, I noticed a framed piece of art on his wall stating that “Christians aren’t perfect, they are just forgiven.” This is displayed on his wall in such a way that it is what a woman would see on her way to the room where her abortion would be performed. Does the doctor’s framed words, his quoting of scriptures and the Christian demeanor which he presents speak louder to these young women than the voices of the Christians in our community. Do they hear his voice louder than they do ours? I ask you again to join me in prayer over this situation and remember in your prayers the women who will turn to this doctor for his advice and for this doctor as well that God will provide him with a more perfect understanding of his actions and his accountability for them.

The Facts About Abortion

sherry — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:59:02 +0000

♦ There have been more than 38.4 Million abortions in the
U.S. since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling.
♦ Abortion became legal on Jan. 22nd 1973
♦ An abortion is performed in this country every 25 seconds.

Tennessee Abortion Law
♦ Requires parental consent – of only one parent.
♦ Allows minor to bypass parent’s consent by obtaining court approval.
♦ Allows abortion in medical emergency without parental consent.

Our Programs

sherry — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:51:55 +0000

Free pregnancy tests for all clients and free ultrasounds for abortion-minded clients. Our center has had a 100% success rate of abortion-minded girls choosing life after experiencing an ultra sound of their unborn child Mommy Mart and Corner Market allow our clients to get new and gently used items to help provide care for their child and
themselves.
Guard Your Heart is our abstinence program that we teach in Carter County high schools. We spend 15 days at each school discussing abstinence from sex until marriage as well as abstinence from drugs and alcohol and making healthy life choices.
Our Summer Food Program hand delivers meals daily to children from across the county. The food is provided by local churches and last year we served 6,800 meals. Christmas visits for children with parents incarcerated at the Carter County Jail are sponsored at Christmas each year so that the children are not punished for their parents bad choices.
The Tree House Community Center is a fully furnished children’s activity center located in the Arney Hill Community. The Tree House is hosted by our Center but programs and ministry are provided by area churches.
Little Feet Group Day Care was founded by our Center to not only provide financial support for our ministry but also to serve as an outreach program. Some of the children enrolled in our daycare are children of our former clients.

We provide clients with information on adoption, explain the the adoption process and serve as mediators in the adoption if the client so chooses.

There are many ways in which you can help with this important ministry. We are always looking for volunteers to assist us. Contact our Center at (423) 543-4673 to find out how you can change a life.

Tree House Community Center

Angie — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:45:47 +0000

School Time At The Tree House

With school starting back soon, summer activities are winding down at The Tree House Community Center and we are getting ready to start the school time activities. We are currently looking for persons, civic groups or churches to help us provide after school activities to the children served by the Tree House Community Center such as games, homework assistance and all sorts of other fun. We are also looking for volunteers to sponsor weekend events for these children. For more information on how you or your group/organization can help make a difference in the life of a child, call our center at (423) 543-4673. The Tree House Community Center is located in the Arney Hill community near the office for Pine Ridge Apartments. (We are next door to the Elizabethton Police Department substation for the community.)

Summer Food Program

Angie — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:43:19 +0000

Our Summer Food Program was a huge success this year and we were able to deliver meals to children that they might not otherwise have. This year we served 7,654 meals to children over the course of eight weeks. That is in comparison to last year when we served 6,936 meals over 10 weeks. On one day of the program this year we fed 217 children. This year, we worked with Second Harvest Food Bank and we provided a hot meal to each child for lunch Monday through Friday. The children were served a meat, a vegetable and a fruit daily. The children also received a sandwich and snack to take home with them for dinner which was provided by local churches and a breakfast meal and snack to take home with them which was provided by Assistance Resource Ministries (ARM).

Pure Talent Contest

Angie — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:39:03 +0000

Pure Talent Contest

Each year we hold our Pure Talent Contest for local children in7th-12th grades. The contest is open to children who attend either the City orCounty schools and also to those children in those grades who are home-schooled.In the past we have held this event in April, which is close to the end of the schoolyear, but this year we have changed the date of the contest. This year we will beholding this annual event in October. This change is being made to an effort tominimize any disruptions for students or teachers as holding the event at the endof the school year may have conflicted with end of the year exams.As part of the contest, we hold auditions in each of the schools to find children toparticipate in the event. The contest will be held on Oct. 16 at Happy Valley HighSchool. During the month of September we will be holding auditions within theschools. We will also hold one public audition for those children who are homeschooled. We will announce the dates for those auditions at a later time along withmore information about the contest at a later time.