First Choice Women’s Center

 

First Choice Women's Center in LaGrange

First Choice Women’s Center in LaGrange

The staff of First Choice Women's Center (L-R) ? ? Michelle Thompson, Director.

The staff of First Choice Women’s Center (L-R) Debbie Hughes: Nurse Manager, Carol Connor: Abstinence Coordinator, & Michelle Thompson: Executive Director. (Not pictured, Courtney Harry: Office Manager)

One of the staff working with a client.

One of the staff working with a client.

The caption says it all!

The poster says it all!

First Choice Women’s Center in LaGrange is a pro-life  ministry that exists to offer women, married or unmarried, who find themselves in an unexpected pregnancy, an alternative to abortion.

The center provides counseling for abortion minded women as well as post abortion women.  They provide information about adoption.  And when the young mother decides to keep her baby, along with training that is designed to teach her (and the father) the life-skills they will need to raise their child, such as nutrition and finances, they also provide training that teaches them the parenting skills they will need.

In conjunction with the other services the center provides, they also go into our local schools and other organizations and teach abstinence seminars to our children.

First Choice Women’s Center also has an ultra-sound machine.  This allows the mother to see her baby in the womb.  This is a very good tool to help prevent abortion.

Along with all the other services the center provides,  they also offer a time of Bible study to all their clients.  Perhaps, this is the most important service of all!

Because we believe so strongly in the work of First Choice Women’s Center, the Troup Baptist Association Acts 1:8 Team has partnered with them in 2013 as both a ministry partner (They would love to have you volunteer) and a fundraising partner.  Consequently, we are encouraging all our churches to participate in the Baby Bottle Boomerang fundraising event.

For those who may not know, the Baby Bottle Boomerang is a fundraising event where the church distributes empty baby bottles to its parishioners, supplied by the center, at no cost to the church, on the first Sunday of the given month the church has chosen to participate.  Each parishioner is asked to place the baby bottle where they would normally place their loose pocket change and for one month to place that change in the bottle.

The bottles are then collected at the end of the month and returned to the center where volunteers will count and notify the church as to how much money they donated.  Note: All individual gifts are tax-deductible.

We also encourage Sunday School classes and different organizations within the church to join in this effort!

While many items are donated to the center, such as diapers and clothing, many of the items associated with the ministry have to be purchased.  The Baby Bottle Boomerang money is used by the center to cover these costs.

To reserve a month (or two) (Spring & Fall?) for your church or group to participate in the Baby Bottle Boomerang, please contact Rev. Aaron McCollough or Dottie Henson at: 706-884-1975 or you may e.mail Dottie at: dottie@troupbaptist.com or Aaron at: aaron@troupbaptist.com.

Michelle Thompson is the director for First Choice Women’s Center.  You may contact her at: 706-884-3833..