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March 20: Deadline for H.S. Pro-Life Essay Contest April 5: Easter Sunday

April 23: Banquet for Life: “Expecting from God—Delivering Help” Inspirational Music provided by Rachel Aldous and The Road Home May 16: Ladies’ Night Out Fundraiser

June 27: Golf Fundraiser

August 29: Walk / Run / Rock for Life

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Any of these items, in size 0 to 18 months, would be greatly appreciated for our moms and babies:

- Socks - T-shirts / Shorts - Baby books / toys - Short-sleeved onesies

- Strollers - Infant Tylenol / Motrin - Baby sunscreen - Shoes/Sandals

- Bath tubs - Baby food or formula - Diapers and wipes - High Chairs / Boosters

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The Prism Effect: Delivering Help

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Rachel Aldous and The Road Home

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Looking Ahead P. 3

The 2015 Banquet for Life, our 18th annual fundraising banquet, will highlight stories from the four major areas of the Clinic’s outreach. In an exciting and interactive program, banquet attendees will get to experience what we are calling, around the Clinic, “The Prism Effect.” A prism, like the one in the picture above, takes a single beam of light, breaks it into several beams, and spreads it abroad to reach a larger area than the single beam could touch alone. In the process, the prism allows the beautiful colors of the light to shine out individually, and creates the familiar ROY G BIV array every child recognizes as a rainbow. Both of these effects, the greater reach of light and the individual display of beautiful colors, are possible because a single source of light was focused and projected through a small but powerful tool. In the same way, your investments of time, energy, finances and prayer, focused and poured into the Women’s Care Clinic, break out and reach a broad group of lives, more than you could ever

touch with your own single efforts. The results of your focused investments are a beautiful array of lives changed, babies rescued, hearts redeemed and hopes restored.

All of that, simply put, is The Prism Effect. Your gifts to the Women’s Care Clinic Deliver Help to Vermilion County families. Babies, moms, and dads in Danville, Bismarck, Catlin, Tilton, Hoopeston, Oakwood, Georgetown and more, are touched by light and hope when you focus your generosity through the small but powerful lens of the Clinic’s pro-life efforts. Please join us on April 23 to hear inspiring stories of the real-life Prism Effect taking place every day at the Women’s Care Clinic. Your gifts make a difference. Your gifts Deliver Help.

The Prism Effect: Expecting from God

Spring 2015

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4 Changed Minds so far in 2015

6 babies born in 2015!

52 moms participating in Bridges groups

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One mom, told that her baby could have Trisomy 18, learned the initial diagnosis was wrong - her baby is healthy!

Over $125,000 raised for our Capital

Campaign since November 2014!

Presentations to Danville Lions Club and DACC GED classes

WITY radio interview about the High

School Essay Contest

Pregnancy Help News (online) featured the Clinic’s building project

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waves and it finally dawned on

my that hearing the sound of my

own voice was not all it was

cracked up to be. It is my family,

my kids, the ones I love that

matter. My crowning

achievements are actually just

gifts from God that I can’t take

any credit for.”

A Mother’s Prayer has been

hailed as “a lullaby that is here to

stay.” As a perennial song it

continues to grow in popularity

and acclaim. With more than a

million hits online, and a viral

following that is exploding, the

song was released to radio and

has been picked up by over 350

stations nationwide and globally.

Rachel has also recorded a

Spanish version, to radio success

This year’s Banquet for Life will

feature the music of Rachel

Aldous and her band, The Road

Home. Rachel was raised in a

Christian home and can

remember singing on stage from

a very young age. As the

daughter of a missionary family,

Rachel was acquainted with life in

a unique way. Her story is

seasoned with all kinds of

unusual experiences and tales

involving her travels and

encounters with a variety of

cultures.

But the real story of Rachel’s life

began her freshman year in

college when she had to decide

for herself Who God really was to

her. As she puts it so bluntly, “I

decided to disobey God and

follow my own desires rather

than God’s perfect plan for my

life.” Her dreams were derailed

when she found out she was a

mother-to-be.

Rachel says, “I thought my life

was over when the guy I was with

kicked me out because I refused

to abort the baby.” She ended up

in a drawn-out saga of abuse and

mental entanglement that she

says she will never forget.

Rachel’s passion for the pro-life

cause was born from her own

personal experiences. As a

mother of three, she proudly

exclaims, “I used to think, if only I

could get my songs on the radio

… Then the day came when I got

to hear my songs broadcast on air

Cajon, cymbals, banjo,

keyboard, fiddle, and

guitar are a few of the

instruments that

produce the unique

sound of Rachel Aldous’

band The Road Home.

Their gentle harmonies,

compelling lyrics and

uplifting rhythms will

win your heart and

encourage your soul.

Join us for an inspiring

evening at the 18th

Annual Banquet for Life!

faith can be strengthened, too.

We invite you to join with us, looking through the glass, expecting from God, soon see wonderful things for the Clinic, face to face.

-Bethany Hager, WCC Staff

Your generous contribution to the operational expenses of the Women’s Care Clinic delivers real help to families in Vermilion County.

You can use the form below, or give online at www.danvilleisprolife.com.

We are a 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID 37-1296954. You will receive a receipt.

Your Gifts Deliver Help!

The Prism Effect: Expecting from God

When I was younger, my eye doctor assigned me daily vision exercises. She gave me a small triangular prism and instructed me to hold the prism between my eyes for several minutes at a time, looking through the prism at an object across the room.

The prism forced my eyes to focus individually so that each one would develop strength on its own, and, we hoped, avoid the need for me to wear corrective lenses. When I looked through the prism, the object I saw seemed fuzzy, distorted and unclear. After using the prism several days, however, I noticed that the object I had viewed through the prism seemed clearer, sharper, and more focused once I put the prism away. The difference was not really in the object, but in my own vision. Looking “through the glass darkly” had seemed to

obscure the thing I was seeing. In reality, though, the exercise of viewing the object through the prism had strengthened my eyes to see the object even better, when we finally came “face to face.”

The same is true now, as the Clinic ventures out to renovate and move its operations into larger space at 1509 North Bowman Avenue. As we look into the future with the eyes of faith, it is like we are holding a prism between us and our goal of a finished, useable building at a new location.

There are times, now, when the object toward which we look appears fuzzy, distorted and unclear. But we have been given an assignment, to press on with this exercise of faith and add strength to our spiritual “eyes.” At the end of this process, we can anticipate seeing clearly, viewing a comfortable, inviting

in a number of South American

markets.

Rachel says, “A Mother’s Prayer

was a gift given to me by God. I

was not trying to write a song. It

was just a mother laying her hand

on her daughter’s little head and

praying a bedtime prayer for

God’s grace and destiny to be

played out in her child’s life. So

simple, yet the power of the Holy

Spirit is in those lyrics. No matter

how much you try, you can’t

recreate that as a songwriter.”

-adapted from rachelaldous.com,

Trish Teves contributor for Risen

magazine.

Board of Directors

Dave Anderson President

Brian Blackford Vice President

Suzie Smith Treasurer

Linda Darby

Secretary

Ryan Harris

Doug Knapp

Dave Miller

Kurt Sovine

Jim Wood

Staff

April Brown Executive Director

Dr. Jeanelle Murphy, D.O.

Medical Director

Kathy Lawhorn Nurse Manager

Judy Larson

Bridges Coordinator

Bethany Hager Public Relations

Brittany Powell

Service Learning Coordinator

Kelley Gettleman Office Assistant

Mary Kay Seaman

Luanne Kees Staff Nurses

space where moms, dads and babies can receive hope, support, life-saving options and a plan for a future.

This is the Prism Effect. When you give to the Clinic’s building fund, Expecting God to fulfill His plans, your eyes of

“Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.”