Good Counsel Homes, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Chris & Joan Bell, Hoboken, NJ

Good Council Homes ^ | 07.21.04

[Coleus]

Good Counsel Homes
Chris and Joan Bell

EWTN GALLERY
GOOD COUNSEL HOMES WITH FATHER BENEDICT GROESCHEL (30:00)

Fr. Benedict Groeschel hosts this half hour special about Good Counsel Homes. Good Counsel provides homeless pregnant mothers a place to stay during their pregnancies, as well as training in skills to help them get jobs and assists them in finding affordable apartments after their babies are born. This special features interviews with Executive Director of Good Counsel Homes, Mr.Chris Bell, as well as mothers who have benefited from Good Counsel's assistance.

Thursday	July 29, 2004	4:30 AM
Thursday	July 29, 2004	6:00 PM

Hear their Story:

Chris & Joan Bell along with Amy Kerr 8/7/2003 (#320) The Good Councel Homes For Unwed Mothers w/ Chris & Joan Bell along with Fr. Groeschel 7/31/2003  Listen on REAL ONE player.  Advance to 15:00 minutes to hear the interview on LIFE ON THE ROCK

While working with homeless runaways in New York's Times Square, Christopher Bell became troubled. He saw many single pregnant women on the streets who were pregnant and with seemingly nowhere to turn.

One day Chris made a remark to his spiritual director, Father Benedict Groeschel, "Somebody should do something to help these pregnant women!"

Father Benedict looked Chris directly in the eyes and said, "You are right Chris! And you are that somebody!" With that encouragement, Good Counsel was born.

Chris and Father Benedict found an abandoned convent in Hoboken, New Jersey and in March 1985, the first home for mothers and children opened its doors. Since 1985, more than 3,500 women and children have received residential help at Good Counsel.

In addition to the basics of food, clothing and shelter, single mothers benefit from many "life skill" programs including parenting classes, nutrition, career guidance, chastity teaching, spirituality and budgeting. Daycare is available in each home so that a mother may work or return to school to complete her education.

Today Good Counsel operates five homes in New York: the Bronx, Staten Island, Spring Valley, Poughkeepsie and Harrison. We hope to be able to expand into other areas of the country as well.

If you are in need of crisis pregnancy counseling, please call out toll-free national hotline 24 hours a day, seven days a week at (800) 723-8331.

Catholic New York - Teen Chooses Life - testimonial

Joan Andrews Bell, Meet the Abortion Providers conference

AFFIDAVIT OF JOAN ANDREWS BELL

Site Review for Good Counsel Homes        Human Life International’s 18th World Conference

Domestic-Church.Com: Vindication: Joan Andrews Released

Joan Andrews Bell: Prisoner of Conscience

THE INTERIM NEWSPAPER ONLINE : Level 2 template

Seattle Catholic - A Champion of Life Everlasting      Seattle Catholic - Of Slaves and Babies

Domestic-Church.Com: Epiphany 1998: Letters to the Editor

Then in 1991, at age 43, she married Christopher Bell, 33, a coordinator for the Respect Life Office in the Archdiocese of New York. The pair met while he was bringing her Communion in a Delaware state prison.

She immediately became pregnant and had a daughter, Mary Louise, now 5. The girl was delivered by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, who became a pro-lifer in the 1970s.

In December 1993, the Bells adopted a handicapped Mexican boy, Emiliano, now 9, who has arthrograposis, also known as "frozen joint disease." After four operations and physical therapy, the boy now is able to walk.

California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (R) has had a long-standing association with Good Counsel, a New Jersey-based organization with "close ties to some of the most extreme members of the antiabortion movement," the San Jose Mercury News reports.

According to the Mercury News, in the late 1980s Simon helped Good Counsel Executive Director Christopher Bell incorporate the organization, which runs five homes in New York for unwed mothers, and Simon has served on both its board of directors and advisory board in the past.

The paper calls Bell --"whom Simon has known for about twenty years" -- an "outspoken abortion opponent" who has supported activists "known to have violated some of the laws Simon pledges to uphold" (Kurtzman, San Jose Mercury News, 6/29).

Simon opposes abortion rights but has said that he would uphold the state's "legal and constitutional protections of reproductive freedom" (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 6/7).

Good Counsel's Web site includes links to organizations that "espouse radical antiabortion views."

Statement opposing brain death criteria

Abortion, Euthanasia, Pro-Life, What's New?

Pictures of Clinton Street, Hoboken, home which needs to be repaired

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Chris and Joan Bell have 7 Children, 6 are adopted and are Handicapped.

Volunteers are needed for the Clean up and Repair day for this crisis pregnancy center which will open whenever the work is done. There will be many repair days in the future and if you know of someone in the NY/NJ metro area who wants to volunteer in some way  have them call the home.   This Saturday, July 24th, 2004,  9am-1pm, optional mass at 8am in the chapel, Cleaning, spackling, priming/painting. Good Counsel Homes for Unwed Mothers, 411 Clinton Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, ( 201) 795-0637 Chris Bell is the director http://www.goodcounselhomes.org/ Pictures of Clinton Street, Hoboken, home which needs to be repaired before it can be opened, mothers are turned away daily.  NJ leads the USA in Teenage abortions.

[old and tired]

Statement by Joan Andrews in 1986, to trial judge who sentenced her to five years of solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, for having been found guilty of burglary in an attempt to unplug an abortion clinic's suction machine

I must have known this at some point, but I've forgotten it. Any idea how much time she actually served for that? We're 99% certain she slept on our floor back in 1988 (but we could be convinced it was '89).

[old and tired]

I maintain it is impossible to protest for too long outside an abortion clinic without praying.

[Salvation]

**I maintain it is impossible to protest for too long outside an abortion clinic without praying.**

The voice of experience!

[cpforlife.org]

I'm not sure. I think all 5.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

I became involved in the pro-life movement when I was a student at Penn State 2O or so years ago. I was a member of Penn State's student pro-life organization. My sibling founded an intercollegiate federation of PA college pro-life organizations (and I am proud to say I helped) still in existence today and was featured in the Penn State's newspaper (on the first and last pages) for his pro-life activism. We sponsored pro-life events of all kinds. I also worked with birthright and the local pro-life group and volunteered for then local Gregg Cunningham's campaign for state congress, if I am remembering correctly.

I worked for Birthright again after college and volunteered for several campaigns for prolifers, most notably Congressman Chris Smith (NJ) and Steve Friends bid for Senate against Arlen Specter and attended pro-life events locally. I met Cardinal Bevilacqua on several occasions at pro-life sponsored fundraisers.

The Catholic activists, I knew at the time were as turned off by operation rescue as I was. We literally thought they had gone off the deep end. I found myself at a couple of their meetings, there is one event in particular that I vividly recall, and thought they were the biggest bunch of loonies I had ever met.

Each of the people I referred to in my above posts were Catholic pro-life activists. Two of those I mentioned with whom I became well acquainted several years prior to Operation Rescue, were leaders in the movement at the time. While most of the women I worked with at Birthright were Catholic, many of those I worked with at Penn State were of varying Christian denominations, and several were Jewish.

This not just a Catholic movement. To treat it as such is to play into the hands of the left who have always defined it that way.(i.e Catholics imposing their will on others or the Catholic hierarchy imposing its will on the rest of the country). While priests are certainly welcome on the front lines, I do not believe their role there is as essential as do you and I would prefer that priests preach the pro-life message from the altar for reasons that I already mentioned. While we were at Penn State we became well aware that pro-lifers are of every stripe, from the deeply religious to those who believe in God but are not so religious, to avowed atheists.

I hope that answers some of your questions.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

How about going to mass and communion and praying the rosary in church BEFORE the protest?

Thus, non-catholics or those who might want to protest but are not particularly religious, won't be alienated.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

It is outrageously disgusting. Was it Cardinal Law who helped get one of Bobby Kennedy's sons an annulment with the inclusion of the claim she was mentally unstable?

[tuckrdout]

No, my friend, you are not wrong. But, to that I will add that modern medical advances and the efforts of Pro life activists (like you!) to publisize the truth of life many of these advances expose; are getting people up off their couches and chipping away at the apathy in the churches.

It is much harder to argue today, that life does not begin in the womb, than it was 30 years ago.

[Coleus]

Another wokday, Saturday, July 31, 2004, Mass at 8 AM (optional)   Work starts at 9 AM

[Coleus]

According to my TV directory, this show is NOT on, I'm not sure which right, the internet TV guide or EWTN's website. My tv guide says that "Doctors of the Church" is on and NOT the Fr. Groeschel interview. I'm going to tape it just in case.

EWTN GALLERY
GOOD COUNSEL HOMES WITH FATHER BENEDICT GROESCHEL (30:00)

Fr. Benedict Groeschel hosts this half hour special about Good Counsel Homes. Good Counsel provides homeless pregnant mothers a place to stay during their pregnancies, as well as training in skills to help them get jobs and assists them in finding affordable apartments after their babies are born. This special features interviews with Executive Director of Good Counsel Homes, Mr.Chris Bell, as well as mothers who have benefited from Good Counsel's assistance.

Thursday July 29, 2004 4:30 AM
Thursday July 29, 2004 6:00 PM

JULY 29 ~ MEMORIAL OF FATHER NELSON BAKER

[ElkGroveDan]

I had the pleasure of getting to know Chris in the course of a campaign I was working on. These people are living Saints. God Bless them for their work.

[Coleus]

Help mothers and babies have a home

This Saturday, October 23rd, from about 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., please come back or plan a visit to 411 Clinton St., in Hoboken. This former convent at Our Lady of Grace Parish is being cleaned and repaired for babies and moms who have no place to turn.

Spread the word. Get involved. No better way to be part of a Life Chain saving lives out in the deep with no place to turn.

Arrive at 8 a.m. for Mass in the Chapel if you can.

Even if you can't come on Saturday, check out the web site
Good Counsel Homes

Maybe you can donate time later of money now. Every little bit helps.

Also, know that Good Counsel has a special program helping those who've had an abortion and are suffering silently. Go to
Lumina - Hope and Healing After Abortion

Spread the word, support this program, too, as much as you can.
God's love has no limits. God's forgiveness is infinite.

Be a Partner For Life. Start today. Be a Friend of Good Counsel.

Peace,
Christopher Bell +
Good Counsel Homes 
Lumina - Hope and Healing After Abortion

411 Clinton St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201.795.0637
FAX 201.795.0809

 
Hi all, this is me on my 1st day at Good Counsel

[Coleus]

Rosaries only give the wrong impression that Pro-life is a solely Catholic issue, and alienate people who might otherwise be inclined to join in. >>

Nah, we all get along together since we have the same objective, I've see Protestants, usually evangelicals, praying side by side with catholics, it's no big deal.

[Coleus]

20 years ago today, Good Counsel    Good Counsel Homes opened the doors of a former convent to help single mothers and babies.  Thousands of mothers and babies, born and unborn, have been given a home. More than a home, mothers and babies are given hope and healing.

Good Counsel means being there for someone most in need.  For a mother with a child, before, during or after birth, Good Counsel is compassionate, confidential caring support.

Good Counsel is here only because of our family, friends and Partners For Life.  If you'd like to learn more, please visit: www.goodcounselhomes.org
Good Counsel Homes

Peace,
Christopher Bell +
Good Counsel Homes 
Lumina - Hope and Healing After Abortion

411 Clinton St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201.795.0637
FAX 201.795.0809

[ElkGroveDan]

California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (R) has had a long-standing association with Good Counsel

...yes it was used as part of a hit piece by the MSM.

[ElkGroveDan]

Oh I get it. An anniversary ping. I'm a little slow today.

My wife and I try to support Shield of Roses in Glendale, CA on the rare occasions when we have some spare cash. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351645/posts

But thanks for the reminder of Good Counsel. My wife's first book is scheduled for a major bestseller-marketing plan by Random House/Ballantine next February. If we strike it big we will include Chris and Joan's group on our list as well.