Embrace Grace Decatur

WHY WE EXIST:

What if every church in the world reached out and welcomed girls with crisis pregnancies into their church for support and love?

That is what the Embrace Grace movement is about.

We're so thankful for the pro life activists that spend their lives raising awareness for life and doing what they can politically to make a change. We believe there is a huge purpose in that and much needed. We're also thankful for all the people that devote their lives to being on the front-lines, working at pregnancy resource centers and being able to talk with a girl and speak life to her right in that moment when she decides, life or death.

But the way we want to save babies is a little different. We want to rally around these girls that choose life and support and honor them for their decision.

We love the people that stand outside the clinics, speaking to girls and inspiring hope to keep their baby but when the girls say, “OK, I’m going to parent this child,” then what? Where is the church? Where did all those supporters go that encouraged her to choose life? She has a long 9 months of being worried about her future, wondering how she is going to get the baby items that she needs, wondering how she is going to make it. They need someone that will encourage them and just say, “You can do it!” They need spiritual mothers and fathers to teach them and be there to lean on so they can parent spiritual and emotionally healthy children. They need friends to cheer them on as they journey through this bumpy season. They need the church to open their arms and be a safe place where they can run to, not away from. This is such a pivotal moment in a young girls life, usually their life hits a big fork in the road. Do they go down the road that got them into this situation? Or do they choose the road towards the arms of a loving heavenly Father? God can use YOU to be a motivator and encourager! You might be the only light that they have in their world.

The domino effect of you investing in a young girls life is endless. When a girl gets pregnant in high school, the next one that gets pregnant, runs to the first one for advice – almost always. They will say, “Yes I got pregnant but it worked out. My baby saved my life. There is a church close that can help you. It will be ok. I’ll bring you next week …” and the cycle continues.

God is such an amazing God that when He wants to get someone’s attention and woo a girl closer to Him, He might just use a baby to do it. He might just bless them with the sweetest face they’ve ever laid eyes on, so they can finally get a tiny glimpse, of just how BIG God’s love is for each one of us.

What if we thought differently about people, and look past people’s sins and looked at the actual person? What if we made the church a safe place for girls to take refuge for their weary hearts and pointed them to the foot of the cross and helped inspire a passionate relationship with Christ?

Partner and join with us as we inspire the world to think differently about people you encounter and meet with crisis pregnancies. When you love these girls, babies are saved. Generations are changed. Love can change the world.