As a volunteer at a pro life center that offered free pregnancy tests, we were only allowed to do the tests......& talk to the ladies about the help we could provide....
ie, adoption, or if they chose to keep the baby, we had many resources to help them physically, emotionally and spiritually, including shelter, etc.
I was very new.....& and after talking to one young woman ( she was in college, and I feared, abortion minded).
.....after she left, I felt compelled to search her out......which was absolutely forbidden by our rules......I had never done that before,and never did it again.....but I wanted one more opportunity to speak to her.
I was scared.
But when I found her....( she had come into town to visit relatives) she didn’t turn me away....or pretend she didn’t know me.
I did the best I could......talked to her briefly.....and left.
A year later, I was not volunteering there anymore.....was absolutely saddened and burned out from all the young ladies and their stories.....but mainly because I tried to do this in my strength and not God’s
I was weary in well doing.
And then I got this phone call from the ministry that a young lady wanted to get in touch with me,
I agreed to meet her.....”and it was this lovely woman...and her beautiful baby girl
She brought me a rose.......and said she was still pursuing her pharmacist degree in college and keeping her baby....and she thanked me :)
I know it was not me.....but God did use a willing but scared redeemed sinner to reach out to this precious, hurting woman.
God is good.
I only "kept up" with one of my girls, and that was because she searched for me. She had given birth to a stillborn baby boy and needed help with the funeral. Our local Birthright director was a great man, called a funeral home and told them to charge the funeral to him! Eventually I stopped volunteering, it seemed that all I did was fill up applications for food stamps, WIC, AFDC... for middle age minority women who drove up to our place in really nice cars.