God Can Use More Abortion Clinics

By Jim Day

Buildings, like people, can be redeemed by God to be used for His purposes. In the fall of 2005, Southwest Missouri’s only abortion clinic closed its doors. Not as a consequence of slow business (averaging over 1,000 abortions per year for 28 years) but as a result of legislative changes.

The owners of the building that housed the clinic, Doin and Dianne Loftis, decided to donate the building to the Pregnancy Care Center (PCC). The building sat empty for nearly a year, until Cindy Boston, Director of the PCC, was approached by Missouri Baptist Children’s Home Children and Family Ministries (MBCH CFM) about leasing the space.

MBCH CFM is an affiliate of Missouri Baptist Children’s Home. They have been helping hurting children in Missouri since 1886. Their work in Southwest Missouri had outgrown the office space they leased from the Greene County Baptist Association and they were looking for a new place to house the regional office where they provide foster care and adoption services for children in the Ozarks.

The building has been remodeled and MBCH CFM moved to their new location in November. PCC Director Cindy Boston says, “We are honored with the partnership of MBCH Children and Family Ministries as they reside in the Cherry Street facility. What was once a place of pain and sorrow, a former abortion clinic, is now a place of hope and healing for children and families. What a miracle!”

Let’s all pray that God turns every abortion clinic in the nation into a place of hope and healing for children and families.

If you would like to know more about how you could be involved in the ministry of helping hurting kids through foster care or adoption, contact MBCH Children and Family Ministries at (417) 831-2342 or visit Missouri Baptist Children’s Home website at www.mbch.org.