Volunteers honored

The Center hosted a thank-you luncheon for a group of ladies from Holyoke who have been "helping hands" from God for several year. In back row, from left, are Center executive director Jan Loesch, Arlene Foley, Jeane Dunne and Marjorie Roberts. In front from left are Ruby Roll, Evelyn Lock, Marie Blakesley.

Check out our website for other photos from the luncheon.

Thank you to our volunteers. You bless the mothers, their babies, and the Center!

A summer of interviews

A local video team is working with the Center this summer to produce a promotional video about the Center's ministries. This is all being donated to the center. Volunteers and board members will be interviewed as part of the project. If you know someone who would like to add their story to the interviews, please contact the Center.

The video team hopes to have the promotional video plus possibly a music video or story ready for the fundraising banquets in February.

Board meeting - June 2007

All board meetings start with a time of prayer for the Center and this one was no different. We prayed for God's protection over the Center and over Jan as director.

Some of the discussion points:

• The Center tithes each year from the proceeds from the fundraising banquets. Discussion continues to where to send that tithe this year.
• With counselors currently being trained in the Haxtun area, the board continues to plan toward a possible satellite site in Holyoke or Haxtun. Ideas include opening an office or renting a house to hold a women's center. Prayer and discussion continue on that idea.
• The board hopes to hold a retreat in the fall for more intense prayer time and vision making.
• Jan Loesch will be attending several festivals and fairs where she'll have informational booths set up. She had a booth at the Akron festival in June, with very good contacts made. Other upcoming festivals include Fort Morgan's Festival in teh Park on July 21-23, the Phillips County Fair on July 27-28, Oktoberfest in Brush on Sept. 22, and Akron Days August 1-4 (Akron's dates may not be correct)
• The Baby Bottle campaign is now complete and proceeds from that should be coming in soon. That is the final formal fundraising event for the year.
• Jan is pursuing some grant opportunities, especially to possibly purchase media equipment for future presentations. The Center plans to do a media presentation at next year's fundraising banquets and is currently involved with a filming team to produce a promotional DVD for the center.
• The Center would like to identify prayer warriors, people who would be willing to gather at the Center office in Brush one day a week to pray for the Center and its ministries.
• The next board meeting is July 16 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sterling.
  

The value of people

"In the flood of the loss of humanness in our age-including the flow from abortion-on-demand to infanticide and on to euthanasia - the only thing that can stem this tide is the certainty of the absolute uniqueness and value of people. And the only thing that gives us that is the knowledge that people are made in the image of God."

Francis Schaeffer
Whatever Happened to the Human Race?