Thank you for enabling our modest charity to hear, help and offer hope. Of the two dozen clients we’ve provided support and resources just during the week of penning this newsletter:

Nine grieving women participating in our post abortion recovery retreat

A plan of escape for a woman in a controlling, abusive relationship

A 17-year-old, pregnant, scared, and not sure what to do

An adult woman, pregnant, stressed about finances and feeling alone

A single woman, abortion vulnerable, her baby may have health concerns

Material support for many pregnant clients and struggling new moms

Also this week, we received an unsolicited email from a post abortion woman. She graciously

shared of God’s healing:

“I am an abortion survivor. I had a crisis pregnancy that ruined my life. The Lord led me through Rachel's Vineyard. [Your RV retreat] changed my life. It showed me who I was and opened – for the first time in 20 years – a stone cold heart.

I am forever grateful for that journey. Thank you.”

Our volunteers and staff are humbled by the opportunity to serve women facing unintended pregnancies, abortion-related grief and domestic abuse.

God calls us to care.

Such a privilege to be a small part of God's very Big Plan.

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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person

they are almost indistinguishable. David Augsburger, PhD

Seeking: Live-in Caregiver

We are looking for a single woman to live in

community to help abused women. This unique

opportunity is with our Burnaby Safe House,

a second-stage shelter. For details please go to

“News & Events” at christianadvocacy.ca.

Seeking: CPC Premises

Please pray with us for our CPC Vancouver

location. We need to lease or, God-willing, find

business men and women who love what we do

to purchase premises in a safe location and in

close proximity to a major transportation hub.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada posted

a report (picked up by Global News) disparag-

ing CPCs. A rehash of the group’s previously

discredited false accusations. You can re-read

our 2014 publication, A Respectful Rebuttal to

a Disrespectful Report on our website.

YOUR PREGNANCY AND INFORMED CONSENT

Please check out the Trailer for our post-production client

options video, Your Pregnancy and Informed Consent.

Informative.

Evidence-based.

Medically accurate.

Offers hope and resources.

Our content has been previewed by 45 counselling and medical practitioners. Our video will be available via USBs

for thousands of clients visiting CPCs across Canada. View trailer at christianadvocacy.ca/YPIC.

Seeking: CPC Volunteers

We need valiant peer counsellors and Sexual

Integrity presenters. Trainings are scheduled for

mid-September. For details please visit “News

& Events” at christianadvocacy.ca.

News and Such Summer 2016

I wish I had learned…

1. That science can only describe the

magnificence of life, not explain it.

Despite learning about oocytes, spermato-

zoa, cell division and embryology, I failed

to appreciate the complex blueprint of life,

established in the early moments of con-

ception. A new life yet to unfold in all of its

wonder.

2. That in the name of “choice” many

women have no choice regarding their

unplanned pregnancy.

I never appreciated that the scared young

woman sitting across from me in my office

carried the fear of many others whose

lives would be impacted by her unintended

pregnancy – this fear often laden with

pressure, both subtle and overt.

3. That many men and women live with

great regret about their children lost to

abortion.

I wonder if we have done an adequate job

providing real choices. I know the answer

without hesitation. No, we have not. True

choice is a choice made when options are

real, tangible and available. True choice is

made from a place of confidence not fear.

4. That despite our ability to treat a

diseased heart, we have no cure for a

broken one.

I wish that all parents, teachers, pastors,

men and women facing an unplanned

pregnancy could hear the cries of regret

from those who have walked before them.

A profound consequence matters, whether

it is 1% or 100% of patients. Discussing

this is disclosure. Understanding this and

choosing still, is consent.

5. That a microscope, while magnifying

an image can actually dull our focus.

A chromosome count cannot measure

value. Prenatal testing cannot predict love.

6. That we have failed our patients.

That is my word for it, failure. Our patients

come to us for guidance, education and

help during the chaos of an unplanned

pregnancy. The response of the medical

profession has been weak and often

biased. It is my hope that the medical

profession will become part of a new sys-

tem of response to those facing crisis

pregnancies, looking beyond the scientific

process and returning to the Hippocratic

roots of our profession – a place where all

life is valued and protected.

SIX THINGS I WISH I HAD LEARNED IN MEDICAL SCHOOL Guest Column: Dr. Laura Lewis

Beyond the stethoscope. Learning a new heart sound.

Dr. Laura Lewis is the new ED of the

Canadian Association of Pregnancy

Support Services. Co-founded by our

CAS charity, CAPSS is the national

best practice association for pregnancy

care centres in Canada.

Community Education Coordinator Sarah Lewis and her valiant volunteer team have been busy

with Sexual Integrity presentations in classrooms throughout the Lower Mainland. Thousands

have participated in our interactive, evidence-based presentations on healthy relationships.

We always ask for constructive feedback from students and teachers. Some recent comments:

“The most beneficial part of the presentation was learning the risks of sex.” - grade 11

“I [wish] I saw this presentation prior to being sexually active.” - grade 10

“All of it was beneficial, especially on consent.” - grade 11

REACHING STUDENTS BEFORE THEY REACH US

Locally

By invitation, we have also been providing Sexual Integrity presentations outside our province.

Over the years, this has included the USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, Bhutan, Kenya and Uganda.

And in Nepal a few months ago.

And in Malawi a few weeks ago. Malawi has a low life expectancy and a high infant mortality.

HIV/AIDS is prevalent.

Globally

Volunteer Jessica with teens in Malawi.

Sarah at a local public school.

CAS Fall Banquet with Dr. Lewis

Save-the-Date: November 5th