Every year our congregation partners with the Hope Pregnancy Clinic in the Baby Bottle Boomerang fundraiser. That time of year is upon us now. This Sunday morning we will receive our “Change Bottles” and for the next six weeks fill them with coins to donate in our effort to “Stand with Hope.” The Hope Pregnancy Clinic serves a critical need in providing support, encouragement, health care, education and direction to women with unplanned pregnancies. God has used their work to save countless babies from being aborted. It is a great privilege for us to partner with them.

In the fall of this year Mike Falzone and Kyle Oglesby taught a class on Wednesday nights titled A Christian Call to Counter-Culture. In one of those sessions the place and practice of abortion in American culture was discussed. Mike and Kyle began the conversation with a short video that addressed the question, “Is abortion moral?” I have included the link to this video below and encourage you to view it. While Darren’s message will focus more on the Biblical perspective on the unborn child, this presentation provides some very clear moral reasoning against abortion that even non-Christians can appreciate. It is well worth the five minutes it takes to watch. This is a plain and simple analysis of the logic of abortion as practiced in the western world and provides a clear path of reasoning to guide us in thinking through this issue. Looking forward to filling up those bottles for Hope! See you Sunday, Hoj