LIFETIMES - Women's Care Clinic of Danville (Danville,...
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March 20: Deadline for H.S. Pro-Life Essay Contest April 5: Easter Sunday
April 23: Banquet for Life: “Expecting from God—Delivering Help” Inspirational Music provided by Rachel Aldous and The Road Home May 16: Ladies’ Night Out Fundraiser
June 27: Golf Fundraiser
August 29: Walk / Run / Rock for Life
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Any of these items, in size 0 to 18 months, would be greatly appreciated for our moms and babies:
- Socks - T-shirts / Shorts - Baby books / toys - Short-sleeved onesies
- Strollers - Infant Tylenol / Motrin - Baby sunscreen - Shoes/Sandals
- Bath tubs - Baby food or formula - Diapers and wipes - High Chairs / Boosters
200 West Williams Street
Danville, Illinois 61832
P: 217.431.0987
www.danvillewcc.org
L IFET IMES
The Prism Effect: Delivering Help
P. 1
Rachel Aldous and The Road Home
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P. 3
Looking Ahead P. 3
The 2015 Banquet for Life, our 18th annual fundraising banquet, will highlight stories from the four major areas of the Clinic’s outreach. In an exciting and interactive program, banquet attendees will get to experience what we are calling, around the Clinic, “The Prism Effect.” A prism, like the one in the picture above, takes a single beam of light, breaks it into several beams, and spreads it abroad to reach a larger area than the single beam could touch alone. In the process, the prism allows the beautiful colors of the light to shine out individually, and creates the familiar ROY G BIV array every child recognizes as a rainbow. Both of these effects, the greater reach of light and the individual display of beautiful colors, are possible because a single source of light was focused and projected through a small but powerful tool. In the same way, your investments of time, energy, finances and prayer, focused and poured into the Women’s Care Clinic, break out and reach a broad group of lives, more than you could ever
touch with your own single efforts. The results of your focused investments are a beautiful array of lives changed, babies rescued, hearts redeemed and hopes restored.
All of that, simply put, is The Prism Effect. Your gifts to the Women’s Care Clinic Deliver Help to Vermilion County families. Babies, moms, and dads in Danville, Bismarck, Catlin, Tilton, Hoopeston, Oakwood, Georgetown and more, are touched by light and hope when you focus your generosity through the small but powerful lens of the Clinic’s pro-life efforts. Please join us on April 23 to hear inspiring stories of the real-life Prism Effect taking place every day at the Women’s Care Clinic. Your gifts make a difference. Your gifts Deliver Help.
The Prism Effect: Expecting from God
Spring 2015
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4 Changed Minds so far in 2015
6 babies born in 2015!
52 moms participating in Bridges groups
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2 Engagement announcements from
Bridges group members!
One mom, told that her baby could have Trisomy 18, learned the initial diagnosis was wrong - her baby is healthy!
Over $125,000 raised for our Capital
Campaign since November 2014!
Presentations to Danville Lions Club and DACC GED classes
WITY radio interview about the High
School Essay Contest
Pregnancy Help News (online) featured the Clinic’s building project
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waves and it finally dawned on
my that hearing the sound of my
own voice was not all it was
cracked up to be. It is my family,
my kids, the ones I love that
matter. My crowning
achievements are actually just
gifts from God that I can’t take
any credit for.”
A Mother’s Prayer has been
hailed as “a lullaby that is here to
stay.” As a perennial song it
continues to grow in popularity
and acclaim. With more than a
million hits online, and a viral
following that is exploding, the
song was released to radio and
has been picked up by over 350
stations nationwide and globally.
Rachel has also recorded a
Spanish version, to radio success
This year’s Banquet for Life will
feature the music of Rachel
Aldous and her band, The Road
Home. Rachel was raised in a
Christian home and can
remember singing on stage from
a very young age. As the
daughter of a missionary family,
Rachel was acquainted with life in
a unique way. Her story is
seasoned with all kinds of
unusual experiences and tales
involving her travels and
encounters with a variety of
cultures.
But the real story of Rachel’s life
began her freshman year in
college when she had to decide
for herself Who God really was to
her. As she puts it so bluntly, “I
decided to disobey God and
follow my own desires rather
than God’s perfect plan for my
life.” Her dreams were derailed
when she found out she was a
mother-to-be.
Rachel says, “I thought my life
was over when the guy I was with
kicked me out because I refused
to abort the baby.” She ended up
in a drawn-out saga of abuse and
mental entanglement that she
says she will never forget.
Rachel’s passion for the pro-life
cause was born from her own
personal experiences. As a
mother of three, she proudly
exclaims, “I used to think, if only I
could get my songs on the radio
… Then the day came when I got
to hear my songs broadcast on air
Cajon, cymbals, banjo,
keyboard, fiddle, and
guitar are a few of the
instruments that
produce the unique
sound of Rachel Aldous’
band The Road Home.
Their gentle harmonies,
compelling lyrics and
uplifting rhythms will
win your heart and
encourage your soul.
Join us for an inspiring
evening at the 18th
Annual Banquet for Life!
faith can be strengthened, too.
We invite you to join with us, looking through the glass, expecting from God, soon see wonderful things for the Clinic, face to face.
-Bethany Hager, WCC Staff
Your generous contribution to the operational expenses of the Women’s Care Clinic delivers real help to families in Vermilion County.
You can use the form below, or give online at www.danvilleisprolife.com.
We are a 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID 37-1296954. You will receive a receipt.
Your Gifts Deliver Help!
The Prism Effect: Expecting from God
When I was younger, my eye doctor assigned me daily vision exercises. She gave me a small triangular prism and instructed me to hold the prism between my eyes for several minutes at a time, looking through the prism at an object across the room.
The prism forced my eyes to focus individually so that each one would develop strength on its own, and, we hoped, avoid the need for me to wear corrective lenses. When I looked through the prism, the object I saw seemed fuzzy, distorted and unclear. After using the prism several days, however, I noticed that the object I had viewed through the prism seemed clearer, sharper, and more focused once I put the prism away. The difference was not really in the object, but in my own vision. Looking “through the glass darkly” had seemed to
obscure the thing I was seeing. In reality, though, the exercise of viewing the object through the prism had strengthened my eyes to see the object even better, when we finally came “face to face.”
The same is true now, as the Clinic ventures out to renovate and move its operations into larger space at 1509 North Bowman Avenue. As we look into the future with the eyes of faith, it is like we are holding a prism between us and our goal of a finished, useable building at a new location.
There are times, now, when the object toward which we look appears fuzzy, distorted and unclear. But we have been given an assignment, to press on with this exercise of faith and add strength to our spiritual “eyes.” At the end of this process, we can anticipate seeing clearly, viewing a comfortable, inviting
in a number of South American
markets.
Rachel says, “A Mother’s Prayer
was a gift given to me by God. I
was not trying to write a song. It
was just a mother laying her hand
on her daughter’s little head and
praying a bedtime prayer for
God’s grace and destiny to be
played out in her child’s life. So
simple, yet the power of the Holy
Spirit is in those lyrics. No matter
how much you try, you can’t
recreate that as a songwriter.”
-adapted from rachelaldous.com,
Trish Teves contributor for Risen
magazine.
Board of Directors
Dave Anderson President
Brian Blackford Vice President
Suzie Smith Treasurer
Linda Darby
Secretary
Ryan Harris
Doug Knapp
Dave Miller
Kurt Sovine
Jim Wood
Staff
April Brown Executive Director
Dr. Jeanelle Murphy, D.O.
Medical Director
Kathy Lawhorn Nurse Manager
Judy Larson
Bridges Coordinator
Bethany Hager Public Relations
Brittany Powell
Service Learning Coordinator
Kelley Gettleman Office Assistant
Mary Kay Seaman
Luanne Kees Staff Nurses
space where moms, dads and babies can receive hope, support, life-saving options and a plan for a future.
This is the Prism Effect. When you give to the Clinic’s building fund, Expecting God to fulfill His plans, your eyes of
“Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.”