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PEGGY HARTSHORN MINISTERS TO ALICIA AND HER BABY
Before I tell you my story, I want you to know that I take full responsibility for my actions. I'm not blaming anyone but me for the choices I made in my life. But that wasn’t how I felt that April night when I came home from work...I bought a kit with two pregnancy tests and came home. I took the first test ... PREGNANT. Hoping I’d done something wrong, I took the second test ... PREGNANT.
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| INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE STORIES |
PRO-LIFE PHILIPPINES
As a true pioneer in pro-life advocacy, Pro-Life Philippines has successfully worked in both the service and political arms of the pro-life movement. By monitoring anti-life bills in government and introducing pro-life bills of their own, Pro-Life Philippines strives to encourage life-friendly legislative policies. They are currently involved in a battle to stop the government’s plan to expand irresponsible sex education programs in the country’s high schools. |
CHOOSE LIFE CENTER (SERBIA)
An estimated 200,000 abortions are performed each year in Serbia compared to only 90,000 births. Vesna Radeka (pictured) had a vision to start the very first life-affirming pregnancy resource center in Serbia after attending the Heartbeat International Annual Conference in 2003. In May of 2004, her vision became a reality and the Choose Life Center was formed. |
PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTER OF ZAMBIA
PDHC-Z was founded in 2002 with the vision of opening life-affirming pregnancy centers in every part of the country where the Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia is active. Abortion and post-abortion syndrome are very real problems throughout Zambia.
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ADVOCATES FOR LIFE (BULGARIA) DIRECTOR LUCY POPOVA
In the summer of 2004, Advocates for Life affiliated with Heartbeat International, our first-ever affiliate in Bulgaria. Lucy Popova, the director of Advocates for Life, attended Heartbeat International's 2004 Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina and shares her story and her vision for pro-life work in Bulgaria. |
LADY CARE (INDIA, N. AFRICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST)
Lady Care’s mission is to enrich, empower, and reconcile women across N. Africa, the Middle East, and India by offering limited health care, crisis intervention counseling, and teaching. They also offer abstinence education in the communities they serve.
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WOMEN CARE SERVICES (RUSSIA)
WomenCare Services has been expanding their trainings to include both abstinence and abortion recovery. The Russian women need so much to get away with God and receive from Him. There were many great testimonies.
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COMPASSION AND CARE IN THE UKRAINE
The Lord is moving mightily and calling more and more of His people to stand up for life in the abortion-ravaged countries of Eastern Europe. With this in mind, Heartbeat International and LIFE International sponsored our second-ever international conference in Kiev, Ukraine from October 26-29, 2005. |
AMERICAN AFFILIATE OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO BELIZE CENTER
As Heartbeat’s Director of International Program, there are very few things more encouraging than being contacted by an American affiliate that wants to assist one of our international affiliates. When this happens, all parties involved are blessed. It’s a blessing to Heartbeat to be able to connect a U.S. center with an international center in need. |
HEARTBEAT TRAINING IN THE PHILIPPINES
In March 2006, Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn and Heartbeats of Licking County (OH) Director Rindy Brooks traveled to the Philippines to teach at a conference hosted by Pregnancy Support Services of Asia. Rindy shares her experiences from the conference. |
