K of C, pregnancy center team up to bring families Thanksgiving
For the fifth year in a row, the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization of Catholic men, delivered laundry baskets filled to the brim with pie, green beans, dinner rolls, frozen turkeys and pans, to the 75 families in the Colorado Springs Pregnancy Center’s LifeSteps Program.
The program provides education, support, and practical assistance for parents and future parents, from the time of pregnancy, until their child turns 2. The turkey baskets are just one way the program aims to help families prosper….
“We got 90 percent of what we needed for him through them,” said Valerie Vance, who held her 8-month-old son, Ayden, on her hip. “When I found out I was pregnant, it was not a good situation…. We didn’t have anything,” she said. Without the help of the program, Vance said she would “probably still be in tears….”
While the center primarily reaches out to teen and first-time mothers, the LifeSteps program has expanded to help mothers of all ages. Fathers-to-be are also encouraged come, even if they’re not involved with the mother.
Valerie Pond came to the program when she was 4 months pregnant. She’d heard that it provided maternity clothes.
“In addition to finding out I was pregnant, I had lost my job,” said Pond as she picked up a basket with her son, 16-month old Malachi.
Pond said the turkey baskets are just another amazing thing the program has provided.
~ Lisa Walton, The Gazette, November 17
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
But pro-lifers don’t care about people who are already born, haven’t you heard?
A very happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Giving Thanks
By
Denise Noe
Hearken, America, to what I say,
Thanksgiving is more than just turkey day.
Let us recall the Mayflower quest
to escape the despotism of the King.
1620’s winter had been heartrending,
the Mayflower people sorely tried
as half their courageous number died.
The First Americans saw their needs
and gifted the newcomers with seeds
which grew to a bountiful harvest
for the Pilgrims’ first taste of corn.
America has been, in many ways,
a tumultuous and most guilty land,
our history one of slavery and bloodshed.
But we also have much worthy of praise.
Today we give thanks for the good and grand,
this holiday, of friendship born,
a feast shared by our ancestors, both White and Red.
That’s really great of them to help out those in need, something we could all stand to do more. Well anyway, happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!
Has anyone ever asked if and how the pro-aborters care about children who are born?
A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you all!
This charity program could be shut down by the HHS mandate in Obamacare. Hopefully it is overturned before Obama tramples the poor.
Del: “Has anyone ever asked if and how the pro-aborters care about children who are born?”
Indeed.
I’m affiliated with a student group (I’m not student there anymore) that fundraises to provide a yearly $700 bursary to a single mother attending university; basically, to make the choice to keep her child more feasible.
Not surprisingly, the pro-aborts on campus take great exception to this (how dare we highlight pro-abort ignorance!) and attempted to shame us by claiming that we were “bribing” women to keep their children.
Damned if we don’t help women and damned if we do, so I don’t bother listening to their baseless complaints anymore.
I have heard, though, that there have been a few who instead tried to ridicule our efforts by claiming that $700 is a trifling amount, little more than a token offering.
To this day, I still hope to encounter them and, when they attempt to use this pitiful excuse, to respond by asking, “All right, how much have you raised to help single mothers go to school and try to better their situations?”
If past experience is any indication, the looks on their faces will be well worth the wait.
Overall, though, I definitely like to ask pro-aborts, since they claim to be “pro-choice”, how much they do to help ensure that women can feasibly choose to keep their children. How much do they do to support THAT choice, instead of just trying to solve everything with abortion?
As you would probably expect, their answers generally leave much to be desired.
That’s awesome. Thanksgiving is really rough if you are poor and don’t have close family. Happy thanksgiving all.
Thanks, Maestro!
We live in a world where the ‘caring and generous’ liberals believe that killing is a good solution to poverty, healthcare costs, old age, general suffering, and many other problems.
God help us! It is going to be harder and harder to do real charity against the Culture of Death.
“Has anyone ever asked if and how the pro-aborters care about children who are born?”
Typically what they mean is that you don’t vote for government entitlement programs and they do. Beyond that, they don’t care what you do and they don’t. They support the right government programs. That lets them off the hook in their minds.
Blessed Thanksgiving to all! I hope everyone can think of at least one thing to be thankful for.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%205:20&version=KJV
Damned if we don’t help women and damned if we do, so I don’t bother listening to their baseless complaints anymore.
I agree, but sometimes you just get sick of hearing that nonsense. I mentioned I am in social work school where most of the students and profs are pro-abortion. Anyway they were talking that stuff about prolifers-are-evell-white-men-who-want-to-control-womens-bodies-and-just-care-about-fetuses and I just had to speak up. I asked, “if I only care about babies before they are born, why am I in this program?” No answer.
Anyway, it seems that Saudi Arabia is really about controlling womens’ bodies. I try to be sensitive to other cultures but this is sickening! If I lived there, my 21 year old son would be my “guardian.” Unbelievable, and what’s even worse, this country is our “ally!”
http://www.france24.com/en/20121122-electronic-tracking-new-constraint-saudi-women