The Jeremiah Project – Sandhills
We are a pro-love ministry offering compassion, hope, help, and ongoing discipleship to women and men facing pregnancy decisions.
We want to choose to love so they can choose life!
How do we help them choose life?
At CCC, we believe the church has an essential role in saving the unborn from abortion and connecting lost women and men facing unplanned pregnancies with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Did you know… that 4 out of 10 women who chose abortion were attending church on a regular basis.
Become part of this movement as we equip CCC to offer compassion, hope, help, and ongoing discipleship.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
Our Mission
We want to help all people find freedom in following Jesus
- Freedom from the shame of an unplanned pregnancy
- Freedom from the guilt of a past abortion
- Freedom that comes from having a transformative relationship with Jesus
- Freedom to have life and have it abundantly
Why the Church?
We believe every life is sacred, designed by God, and has a purpose, hope and a future.
Unfortunately, many women with unplanned pregnancies go silently from the church to the abortion clinic. Life decisions need life support. The church is to not only to be pro-life but also pro-love, making Life Disciples to impact lives.
What is Making Life Disciples?
Along with our partner, Care Net, the author of the Making Life Disciples program, we believe that “life decisions need life support,” and the church is God’s instrument to provide life support to women, men, and families to empower them to choose life for their unborn children and abundant life for their families.
James 1:27 compels us to care for orphans (who are children without fathers) and widows (who are women without husbands). Accordingly, God created His church to, among other things, fight to protect the unborn, end abortion, and strengthen families.
While this can sound challenging, our church has a huge opportunity to become more actively involved in saving the unborn from abortion. We can start by becoming people who are trained and prepared to mentor these women and men.
The Solution – Making Life Disciples
Making Life Disciples is, first, a way to equip a select group of first-responders in our church to offer compassion, hope, and help to women and men facing unplanned pregnancies; and, second, a way to raise our life-affirming IQ of our whole church related to abortion. This will transform our church’s response to the abortion crisis.
Making Life Disciples training will equip you to become a life disciple. It offers an opportunity to meet one on one with people making life decisions. Literally life or death decisions.
FAQs
What if I say the wrong thing?
No one is perfect. This training will prepare you for this life-affirming ministry. You will become more confident as you work with more and more women and men. They will see your caring approach. Even when you make a mistake, the Lord is faithful. These women and men will be patient and forgiving of mistakes when they see how much you care and that you are in their corner.
How can I help a women or man facing an unplanned pregnancy when I have not experienced that?
Even if you have never personally faced a difficult pregnancy decision, you have undoubtedly experienced a time when you faced difficult circumstances. You can draw on these kinds of experiences to help you empathize with women and men. Each one of us has gone through trying times or made mistakes that we regret. These experiences will help you relate to the people God puts in your life as you serve Him.
My past is messy, how can I help someone else?
Our weaknesses display God’s grace. Consider, 2 Cor 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in you.” God will bring beauty from ashes and healing from the pain of wrong decisions. The Making Life Disciples curriculum will prepare you to share the Gospel. Through step-by-step tools and role play, you will become confident in sharing His life changing message. You will be talking to the woman or man from your heart. They will see passion for Christ in your eyes and hear it in the way you speak about him.
I’ve never led someone to Christ, I don’t know if I’ll do it right.
Talk to the women or man facing a pregnancy decision from your heart. They will see passion for Him in your eyes and hear it in the way you speak about Jesus. The Making Life Disciples curriculum will prepare you to share the Gospel. Through step-by-step tools and role play, you will become confident in sharing His life changing message.
Isn’t this a women’s issue? How can I help as a man?
This is not just a women’s issue. We recognize that fathers are valuable to God, highly influential in their partner’s pregnancy decision, and vital for the future well-being of their child. We NEED MEN to help these fathers understand their role of fatherhood and family that God designed.
A Life Changed
The girl in the picture above exhibits the same emotion I felt the day I found out I was pregnant. I was scared and confused. How was I going to tell my parents that I was pregnant? How would we tell my boyfriend’s parents that we were going to have a baby? How could I raise a child? What about my future, my plans? All I could think about was this is a problem that I have to take care of. Abortion would end the problem. No one would ever know. I could continue my life as normal. Besides, I didn’t want my boyfriend to have to marry me so abortion seemed like the best choice for me.
I was one of the statistics that 4 in every 10 abortions are churched women. I was raised in the church. Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, youth group, I did it all, yet I never heard about abortion and what it was. The church never talked about that.
A few days later, I found a Planned Parenthood near me and had the procedure. I was actually relieved that this problem was over. I went about my life, got married later, gave my life to Christ, had children, a career and everything seemed to be going well. About 10 years later I was listening to a Focus on the Family broadcast about abortion. As I heard them talk about the procedure and that it isn’t a glob of tissue, this is a baby at the point of conception, I began to sob and could not believe I could have done such a thing to my baby. I decided I just had to bury this inside of me because how could God forgive something like this. I didn’t think that was possible. I knew He forgave sins and would probably forgive your sin but not this, not mine. I would be fine for a while but then I would read something, hear something about the pro-life movement and I would fall apart again. I carried this burden for almost 30 years until God told me you are going to have to do something about this. Bring it out in the open and tell someone. I wrestled with God for days until He broke me, He won as He always does. I called a local pregnancy center, told her my story, and asked for help.
Going through the Bible study, Forgiven and Set Free, I was finally able to accept God’s forgiveness and grace for my abortion. In Psalm 32, David tells us:
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
But
I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not cover my iniquity; I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Wow, my chains were gone! The guilt was gone! I was free! Not only does Jesus forgive our sin, the guilt I carried around so many years was now covered by His grace poured out on me. I cannot express the gratitude and blessing that I was to receive.
So, God said NOW do something and I said “I’m ready!” I want to help women and men faced with this life changing decision to know the facts and options so they will not go through the pain and guilt that I did! I want to help them find the freedom they are searching for in Christ, help them choose life, and walk with them along the way.
If you have had an abortion in your past and want to have the freedom from that guilt, please contact us. We can help you!
You are God’s masterpiece, created in His image, and He loves you more than you can imagine!