By Rayma Zugel
Lead Center Director
A while back a young girl who knows me called and asked me
what I did at Care Net. She had “heard” that Care Net helps girls get an
abortion. She said, “No way would Rayma do that”, hence the phone call. I
explained to her exactly what Care Net does, and that got me thinking, “What do
people think we do here?” So I interviewed a few young people to see if they
knew what we do. Here are some of the responses:
Q: What do
we do at Care Net?
A: “You help
women with their pregnancies, like those that don’t know what they want to do.”
Q: Anything
else?
A: “You collect baby supplies for the families that can’t
afford them.” (From a 14 year old
girl)
I asked this
young girl what I did, specifically, at Care Net:
Q: What do I
do at Care Net?
A: “Mom’s
come to Care Net to talk to you for a minute, and if they don’t want to keep
their baby, you tell them to take their baby to the ‘baby center’ to give them
for adoption.” (From a 7 year old girl)
Oh if only
more people could understand what this little one already knows, that adoption
is a real and good possibility for those that “can’t” keep their babies. After
all, God chose us, adopted us through Christ.
“Even before he made the world, God
loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided
in advance to adopt us into his own
family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ…” (Ephesians 1:4-5 NIV)
Q: What do
the people that work at Care Net do?
A: “You help
babies.”
Q: How do we
do that?
A: “You give
them food, and diapers, and stuff.”
Q: Do we do
anything else?
A: “You help
first time mommies and daddies know how to take care of their babies. (From a
10 year old boy)
Q: What do
we do at Care Net?
A: You help
babies.
Q: How do we
do that?
A: You give
them what they need, like diapers, milk, clothes, food, shoes. (From a 6 year
old girl)
“Pure and genuine religion in the sight
of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing
to let the world corrupt you” (James 1:27 NIV).
One child I
asked responded this way:
Q: What do
we do at Care Net?
A: You help
women who are thinking about abortion and you help them not want to do that.
Q: How do we
do that?
A: You talk
to them about their babies and about God. (From an 11 year old boy)
Someone else
asked a 16 year old girl:
Q: What do
we do at Care Net?
A: “You help
pregnant women in a crisis and teach them about God”
“Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to
me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like
these children’” (Matthew 19:14 NIV)
“Direct your children onto the right
path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.” (Proverbs 22:6 NIV)
“Children are a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3 NIV)
I would say
the children we know around here have gotten it right.
What do you say we do at
Care Net?
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