Impossible Redemption

I wanted to kayak yesterday, but then found myself googling “drug addiction Christian treatment centers for pregnant moms in South Carolina”. The first hit was a residential place in Kentucky.  What’s this? Kentucky is not South Carolina. Why did Google bring me here? Right on the heels of that thought: Maybe it was not Google...but God. 

Intrigued, I read the information on their website. They were too good to be true. If only they were local to the mom I had in mind!! I  decided I should call them anyway, knowing they were not likely possible for the local mom with desperate, immediate needs. However, I hoped they might point me to a local facility similar to theirs. 

The blue sky and sound of waves in my heart beckoned. NO. This was more important. The lake would still be there later...the baby or even life of the addicted mom might not...

I punched in their number on my cell phone. After speaking with them about what our ministry, Cities4Life  does and how desperate an immediate need we had, they offered an immediate open bed and program for the mom. I then called the woman who just asked Jesus to be Lord and chose life for her baby after meeting us on the sidewalks of the abortion center two days ago. I spoke with her mother first. Her mother said there is no way her daughter would do that. The mother was worn out, beaten down by failure after failure trying to help her addicted daughter. Nonetheless, she said it did sound like a wonderful facility, and she would try.  She asked her daughter if she would consider this place. This young woman had been in drug addiction for more than a decade, and in the past, refused treatment.

She said YES...she had never known the peace she was feeling since submitting her life to Jesus. She was ready for a new life in all ways. She was so excited that she called them, and would do the admission interview right away. 

It was worth giving up the day of kayaking to hear that!

When they had come aboard the HELP Monroe Pregnancy Center RV with the mobile ultrasound unit parked outside the abortion center, they told us the “pro-choice” people had told them not to trust us, not to listen to us, or to go on our RV to hear our resources or see the baby. “They lie,” they told her, “And never do what they promise.”

This mom has already been offered and received a mentor to walk with her, a list of several treatment/residential options, all of which were called first by the Cities4Life counselor, a baby shower to provide the first two years of all the baby’s needs, and the sharing of the Gospel which resulted in the woman asking Jesus to be Lord and feeling the first peace she has felt in years. The mother and daughter who were shrieking at each other with the mother saying she was done with the daughter when they came aboard the RV, are now actively working together to heal and follow God. They went together to church two nights ago, after meeting us.

Do not grow weary, all ye who labor for the Lord. His mercies are new every morning, and His strength is greatest when we are weakest. Do not believe the lies of the enemy of our souls. Remember that He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.

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1 Peter 5:7-11 

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.