When I first heard about Praxis, I was excited. I was excited to get involved, to reach out to the hurting of this world. To be Jesus to people.
My passion is children. Teaching, helping, loving, caring for children. And in doing these things for kids, I then have the chance to touch their families and their friends. There are so many opportunities out there to help kids. This post is about New Life Family Services. New Life is a non profit Christian social service agency. Their mission is to honor the sanctity of human life by assisting clients in life-affirming decisions with the love and compassion of Christ. They do free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, offer counseling, practical assistance, and licensed adoption services to the women they help.
Being a new mom myself, I am especially passionate about the smallest and most helpless of God's children (at least at this stage of my life). This is why I feel that New Life needs my help.
There are many ways to help New Life. We will be collecting baby and maternity items at the Praxis table each Sunday before and after Sanctuary. New Life accepts new and used baby items and maternity clothes. Also diapers, wipes, toys, stuffed animals, formula, baby food, etc. (any donated equipment like high chairs and car seats must be new and in it's original packaging). They also take office supplies as donations. Another option is to put together a Birth Mother Gift Bag. These gift bags are given to new moms who have just given their baby up for adoption. They contain things like disposable camaras, journals, picture frames, candles, lip gloss, etc.
New Life also has a 24 hour pregnancy hotline. Any time day or night women can call and reach a caring individual who can listen and pray with them. The hotline needs volunteers for off business hour times. I just called the women in charge of the hotline, and she said they are currently really hurting for volunteers. It is a somewhat of a process to get the training to work on the hotline, but I was like sign me up! I'll keep you updated on how it goes. If anyone out there is interested in potentially volunteering, please come talk to me at the Praxis table on Sundays! I know they could use you!!
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in the my name welcomes me. -Jesus (Matthew 18:5)
1 comment:
I'm very excited to see this. If anybody out there is past the "family starting years" (like me, I feel so old...), look at what you have to pass on! (And who doesn't have stuffed animals laying around the house?). Thanks for having a passion to start this.
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