FAMILY TIMES

His Children

Since the last newsletter at the end of 2003, God continues to do great things around us. Just ask the 5 couples who have received one of God's greatest blessings: a newborn child placed in their home! Or ask one of the 4 families recently chosen by birth mothers with whom we are already working! Ask the birth mothers of these babies how God is blessing their lives and giving hope -- for their babies and for themselves! Ask the 7 other couples/families on our list  to whom God is giving a "second chance" to have children to raise to His honor and glory! And don't forget to ask the babies themselves who have been given/are being given the chance at LIFE!!!

 As a concerned friend of Christian Family Services you are right there in the middle of all these things.  Your prayers, your ongoing personal financial support, your intercession with your local congregations on behalf of CFS, and your positive word of mouth to those around you, have allowed God to directly work in the lives of the above mentioned individuals and families. You have enabled CFS to come along side both birth mothers in crisis and couples wanting to complete their families.

 Yet God is showing us that much more needs to be done. Please consider additional ways you can help. First, I would like to speak to as many congregations and/or elders as possible this year. Talk to the preachers, elders, deacons, and their wives to discuss the growing need for young women to be given a Christian alternative to abortion. Tell them about CFS, the tremendous work God is doing, and suggest it would be good to have a representative come and more fully inform the members of your congregation. Second, talk to whomever is responsible for ongoing support of "children's homes," etc., and ask them to consider supporting CFS. Third, explore the possibility of your congregation being involved in our fall Investing in Lives "change can" program. And finally, help spread the word of our continuing need for good Christian families to consider "adoption" as a means of bringing these infants up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, or to consider becoming one of our special "short-term" foster families.

 I truly believe that God will do so much more through this effort if we will but trust Him to use us. May God's richest blessings be on you and your family as you make it possible for Him to be a blessing to newborn babies, mothers in crisis, and couples longing to raise a family through the work of Christian Family Services.

                                                                        ---Jerry Callens