Metro Voice annually works with regional adoption and foster care organizations, women’s clinics, policy groups and other pro-life entities. For information on any of the fine organizations below, just click and check ...
Read More »Unexpected Journeys: A Path to Motherhood.
Jasmine scheduled an appointment for a pregnancy test, sharing that she was about to begin a nursing program, and the timing of the pregnancy felt far from ideal. She hadn’t informed her ...
Read More »100 Waiting Families for A Gift of Hope
Experts estimate that there are around 2 million hopeful adoptive families in the US who are waiting to adopt a baby. However, annually only around 20,000 babies are placed for adoption privately ...
Read More »MBCH: Once upon a dream
Missouri Baptist Children’s Home was founded upon a dream of Mrs. Joseph B. Thompson in 1882. Mrs. Thompson saw a vital need in the rapidly developing city of St. Louis, for a ...
Read More »Documentary on Father Flanagan of Boys Town set for October
Spencer Tracy brought the story of Father Edward J. Flanagan to life in the 1938 Oscar-winning movie “Boys Town.” A new documentary, “Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story,” will take ...
Read More »Ugandan church transforming lives of most vulnerable children
One of the Uganda’s biggest church communities is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a series of events, including a book launch by its founder, Pastor Gary Skinner and wife Marilyn, a new ...
Read More »How Christian donors may be worsening Haiti’s orphan crisis
As the security crisis in Haiti continues, the humanitarian aid group Haiti Family Care Network is urging U.S. Christian donors to refrain from worsening the situation by donating to orphanages and to redirect their ...
Read More »On World Down Syndrome Day, dad cannot imagine life without his daughter
In a post that appeared at The Atlantic, “A Generational Shift in Understanding Life With Down Syndrome,” Educator Theo Malekin does an admirable job in helping us understand how much attitudes have changed ...
Read More »Coffee company gives $300k to crisis pregnancy centers
Seven Weeks Coffee, which is named after the stage in a woman’s pregnancy when her preborn child is the size of a coffee bean, has donated more than $300,000 to crisis pregnancy ...
Read More »State AGs respond to White House foster family gender rule
The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would effectively exclude Christian families from fostering kids and jeopardize the foster care system nationwide, a group of Republican state attorneys general said in ...
Read More »I’m adopted
Four things I’ve learned about being adopted. “What do I have to be thankful for? My own dad didn’t want me.” Thanksgiving was creeping closer, and I had just unleashed that question ...
Read More »The Beauty of Adult Adoption
Fourteen years ago, one day before Thanksgiving Day, I became Bill Dillon’s daughter with the banging of a gavel. As my dad smiled and gave his eighteen-year-old daughter a side hug, a ...
Read More »Donna Kelce, Tammy Reid will team up for Giving Machine at Union Station
Area residents will have an innovative new option for giving this holiday season. Donna Kelce, mother of Chiefs player Travis Kelce, and Tammy Reid, wife of head coach Andy Reid, will unveil ...
Read More »Supporting National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month. Thirty days to spread awareness of the wonderful impact adoption can have in the life of little ones and all the parents surrounding them. With the overturning ...
Read More »Caught in Love
At 17, Tina was already too old for her years—and too young to be a mom. We met Tina as she was finishing treatment for alcohol addiction in a rehab facility. Even ...
Read More »Missouri Right to Life-Western Region speaking for life
Missouri Right to Life is a National Right to Life affiliate and our state’s oldest and largest grass-roots pro-life organization. Founded in 1974 as a response to the outcry over the legalization ...
Read More »Parkville Women’s Clinic Provides Support for Unplanned Pregnancies
Ava* is a young, unmarried woman without a high school degree. Her baby’s father was in basic military training out of the state with graduation in a month. She was living with ...
Read More »100 waiting families
Experts estimate that there are around 2 million hopeful adoptive families in the US who are waiting to adopt a baby. However, annually only around 20,000 babies are placed for adoption privately ...
Read More »Actor Kevin Sorbo headlines Vitae Foundation dinner at Arrowhead Stadium Sept. 26
Chiefs games won’t be the only events drawing crowds to Arrowhead Stadium in September. The Vitae Foundation will hold its annual Kansas City pro-life dinner at the stadium’s North Club on Sept. ...
Read More »“It’s a Baby” ad campaign focuses on humanity of unborn children
Focus on the Family has launched “It’s a Baby,” an advertising campaign to celebrate life on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Jim Daly, ...
Read More »Caffeine with a cause: Seven Weeks Coffee gives 10 percent to crisis pregnancy centers
Caffeine lovers are helping Seven Weeks Coffee donate more than $100,000 to crisis pregnancy centers. “At seven weeks, a baby is the size of a coffee bean and it’s the same time ...
Read More »Pastors step up to encourage adoptions after decline
More pastors are encouraging members to adopt and provide foster care at a time when adoptions have declined in the U.S. A Lifeway Research study found more than 2 in 5 U.S. protestant ...
Read More »Harrisonville pastor sets world record by running a marathon on 153 consecutive days
A Harrisonville, Mo., pastor recently ran his 153rd consecutive marathon to raise awareness of adoption, foster care and youth mental health. Malachi O’Brien of The Church at Pleasant Ridge in December entered the ...
Read More »Pro-life centers provide better services at lower cost than abortion clinics, study finds
Pro-life pregnancy centers offer better and less-expensive services than abortion facilities, according to recent study in the journal “Contraception”. In particular, it found that pregnancy centers had shorter appointment wait times than ...
Read More »Parkville is entrusted with the stories of the people they serve
The work of Parkville Women’s Clinic goes far beyond your standard medical appointment or even our material assistance of diapers, wipes, etc. Each and every day, we encounter women and men who ...
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