What if No One Had Been There to Offer An Alternative to Abortion?

We had a baby shower yesterday for a mom who chose life over abortion. The mom lives in a neighborhood where a murder recently occurred. I have to admit that I asked a few people for prayer. With racial tensions on edge lately, I was concerned about how my presence would be received. 

I needn't have feared. My partner, Sheryl of Truth and Mercy Prolife Ministries, and I were the only white people I saw in the entire area. However, the sweet woman I will call "Y" greeted us with an apartment filled with welcoming friends. As they entered, they gawked at the lavish display of baby shower items, everything the baby would need for two full years. Every friend, the mom, and the grandmom were crying. Not only had we brought baby things, but also bags of clothes and items for the other children as well.

"Bless you, bless you!" they all told us. They hugged us and told us they could not believe the abundant outpouring of tangible love they were seeing. All of them gushed tears.

"Are those happy tears?" Sheryl asked Y.
She nodded, dabbing tissues against her eyes.
"I don't know what to say," Y told us, "I am overwhelmed."

Mission accomplished. Our goal is to show the moms who choose life how lavishly God loves them and their child. God's love should move us all to act when others are in need. That is the mission of Cities4Life and its partner ministries. Show Christ's love through us. Transform a hurting world, a fractured city and nation through the transformative love of Jesus in tangible ways through His people.

Everyone in the neighborhood waved to us, and smiled at us. They all knew we had come to bless a young, unmarried mother in need...a mom who had considered abortion in a battle over two precious souls: hers and the baby's.

"What changed your mind?" Sheryl asked her later as we sat down to a quiet dinner with just Y while her mother watched her other children.
"I wondered what made the baby in my womb any different than my other children," Y told us. "And I thought: would God consider it murder? What would He think if I took the life of my own baby?"

Amen.

Here is the very sad truth. If Cities4Life hadn't been there on the sidewalks that day, what would have happened? Y was in difficult circumstances with a newly fractured relationship that had broken her heart. She responded to the immediate crisis by an emotional decision to abort because everything at that moment looked bleak.

As soon as she met us, went on our mobile RV, saw her baby on the ultrasound, heard about all the hope and help and love that was there to encourage her, her entire outlook changed. All of her other children were at the shower, delightful smiling well-behaved cherubs.
"Who is this all for?" one of the little children asked. Then she patted her mom's belly, "For her?"
Y nodded, one hand resting on her belly, the other on her young child's head.

What would she have had to tell the siblings if Cities4Life hadn't been on the sidewalk the day she came to kill their sister?
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Matthew 25:35-40

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ ...

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’