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Editor’s note. This appeared at Pregnancy Help News and is reposted with permission.
A woman can feel a vast array of emotions as she walks through the doors of a pregnancy center for the first time—fear, anxiety, and shame.
This July, when A Woman’s Concern opens up a new office in the heart of Amish Country—Lancaster, Pennsylvania—the first thing a woman will notice as she walks up to the center will be their purple doors, which are symbols of hope.
At the center’s new headquarters, they’ll have the ability to serve three times as many clients with significantly more programs and services.
The story of how they found the location is every bit as exciting for Hartman and her team, who’d searched 16 months for a new building before a local church, Harvest Bible Chapel, offered A Woman’s Concern its building.
A friend told her about A Woman’s Concern.
A woman can feel a vast array of emotions as she walks through the doors of a pregnancy center for the first time—fear, anxiety, and shame.
This July, when A Woman’s Concern opens up a new office in the heart of Amish Country—Lancaster, Pennsylvania—the first thing a woman will notice as she walks up to the center will be their purple doors, which are symbols of hope.
“Once you enter those doors, you receive love, hope, compassion, and resources,” Jill Hartman, A Woman’s Concern’s executive director, said.
“Radical transformation can happen if you’re brave enough to walk through the purple doors. Women facing unexpected pregnancies should be met with hope. So, our doors symbolize hope and new opportunities for the clients that we serve – we meet them where they are at.”
With an increased client load of 35 percent from 2016 to 2017, A Woman’s Concern found itself running out of space. Serving clients since 1972, the pregnancy help medical center simply outgrew their home, even after opening a satellite location two years ago thanks to a generous benefactor.
At the center’s new headquarters, they’ll have the ability to serve three times as many clients with significantly more programs and services.
The story of how they found the location is every bit as exciting for Hartman and her team, who’d searched 16 months for a new building before a local church, Harvest Bible Chapel, offered A Woman’s Concern its building.
“They were moving out of their location and they actually never even offered it to anybody else,” Hartman said. “They just really believed in our mission and believed that they would love to see a nonprofit that cared about the things that they cared about in their building.”A Woman’s Concern hopes to serve more clients like “Angela” in their new building. Feeling overwhelmed and out-of-control, Angela was five months pregnant when her husband left her.
A friend told her about A Woman’s Concern.
“I just gave a call. The ladies were so friendly,” Angela said. “They didn’t judge me. They made me feel loved. I didn’t feel alone. They made me feel like my circumstances were manageable.”
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