Reversing the National Abortion Trend

Recently there has been a great deal of debate over what the exact role of the medical pregnancy resource center is when it comes to the Great Commission.  Many official statements have been made from National figures and organizations in the movement and many local medical PRCs have debated internally regarding the overall focus of the organization on the the formulaic sharing of the gospel message with patients.  Should it be articulated in the mission statement that organizations ‘share the gospel’ as a primary reason for existence?  There are many positions on this very crucial issue most of which most have been formulated by lawyers or laypeople who are theologically untrained.  What exactly is the Great Commission and what should its role be in the medical PRC?  Listen as Rev. James Harden, M.Div, theologically trained at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, IL discusses the theological context of the Great Commission and what that then means for us as Executives and the organizations we run.  Click the following link to listen in…

What about sharing the gospel in the medical PRC? [ 6:23 ] Download

Recently Michelle Sullivan and Barb Malek in Omaha, NE sent CompassCare an encouraging summary of the results they have been seeing regarding reaching more women at-risk for abortion after implementing a linear patient service platform. It reads as follows:

2007 vs. 2008 statistics

For the 2nd quarter (April, May, June) of 2008 we saw 224 patients for pregnancy tests (This does not include retests. Some were patients we had seen in the past, but this was a new pregnancy for them.) Of these, 131 were positive tests, and 93 were negative. This means that 58% of all our tests were positive tests. (I wish I could break that down into those that were strongly abortion minded, but, unfortunately, that would be a lengthy process, and I do not have time. With our new database, we will know this information easily. However, we all know from experience that the number of those patients has risen quite dramatically.)

By comparison, in the 2nd quarter of 2007, we saw 172 patients for pregnancy tests. Of these 85 (or 49%) were positive. This is an increase of 23% more patients, and, even more importantly, an increase of 35% more positive pregnancy tests over 2007.

Lastly, I would like to compare June 2007 to June 2008. In June of 2007, we saw 55 total pregnancy test patients. In June of 2008, we had 54 positive tests, and saw a total of 90 patients. (In June of 2006, we only saw 27 patients for new pregnancy tests, with only 12 positive tests. By the way, these were the statistics that drove us to seek out a new way of doing things. As a result, we found CompassCare. God is good!)