E-NEWS~July 2010

The Vine Pregnancy Center:
Our Clients, Our Culture, Our Mission Field 

The volunteers who serve at TVPC are on the mission field. They are equipped to understand their client’s circumstances, family, friends, culture, environment, and past decisions that have ultimately lead them to TVPC. 

When a volunteer listens to a client’s situation, they are not just dealing with one specific problem. There are issues and pressures that are influencing the client. Each client that comes to TVPC enters in with a philosophy of life, religious viewpoint, pattern of thinking, behaviors, and desires and feelings which are evident in her choices. 

It is critical for the volunteer to understand the cultural condition of their client. It will tell the volunteer how to speak and counsel the client. The volunteer and the client live, breath, move and exist in the same environment and cultural community. However, the volunteer at TVPC must be equipped with a counseling method that goes beyond the culture; it must get to the heart of the matter.

Focus on the Heart is the training used to equip each volunteer. Abortion is a spiritual issue and we are commanded by Christ through the Bible to test everything in accordance with His written word, not to be conformed to this world and not to use the standards and weapons of the world in spiritual battles we face. Therefore, the volunteer is equipped with the tools to minister to the client with this counseling approach.

Focus on the Heart 
Cost: $ 28 / Materials & Manual
Focus on the Heart 
6-9:30 pm, Thursday, July 24th, 
6-9:30pm, Friday, July 25th, 
10-5pm, Saturday, July 26thVolunteer TVPC Training: 
Contact: Jodie Zicker - TVPC 245-2002/P.O. Box 2008, F.P. 93225
www.thevinepregnancycenter.org
  


E-News   03/08
Hope for the Heart from The Vine

Having walked through many valleys of loss, my heart is filled with compassion for anyone grieving the loss of their child through miscarriage, stillbirth, early infant death, or abortion. Coming alongside them, providing hope for the heart, is central. When faced with the loss of a child, it often comes down to giving thanks. Giving thanks for each day, each hour, and each heartbeat. 

Our mission is to give hope when ministering to the hearts of women facing a crisis. Recently, I wrote down some thoughts I cherish about what hope can look like in the heart of one transformed by living in the forgiveness of Jesus Christ. 

My heart treasures the one and only transforming truth…Hope in Christ; He is the true healer of hearts. What can a life look like with a heart filled with hope?

Hope in the heart is…Scripture in action, lived out in a life of faith, before God and man.

Hope in the heart is…when we choose to meditate upon and believe in God’s Word over and above our own feelings, thoughts, and emotions in the midst of a sovereignly ordained circumstance.
                                 
    "But now, Lord, what do I do? My hope is in You."
                                                                 
       ~Psalm 39:7

Hope in the heart is…When we respond in our hearts, minds, and actions to our circumstances, for His glory and honor, with eternity in mind.

Hope in the heart is...When we come through the trial, we testify within our hearts, minds and actions that God’s goodness never changes today, yesterday and forever.

A resource dear to TVPC is Caleb Ministries. We use this outreach ministry providing support and encouragement to women who have faced the loss of a baby. Caleb Ministries was founded in Charlotte, NC after the stillbirth of Craig and Sandy Day’s firstborn son, Caleb, in February 1988. Sandy has authored the book Morning Will Come. This book comes alongside women with personal stories of others who have walked through low valleys, offering encouragement through such painful circumstances.