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Women's Maternity Home
What its all about...
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Residential Faith Based maternity home for pregnant women in desperate circumstances – addiction, jail, destructive relationship, destitute, etc.
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Excellently located facility able to serve up to 10 women simultaneously.
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It’s purpose is to break the cycle of bondage (emotional, physical and spiritual) in women and subsequently their children.
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Not simply “betterment” program, but “development” in nature.
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The outcome is taking them from a lifestyle of negative dependency to a mental, physical and spiritual healthy lifestyle. Building and imparting value into their lives and ultimately the lives of their children.
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Mother and the father (when possible at the men’s ranch) will be mentored via the Teen Challenge method of education and real life application.
How we do it...
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•By utilizing partnerships for prenatal care, transitional (post birth) housing placement, family counseling, and adoption alternatives.
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•In providing a safe, peaceful, positive, life impacting housing environment.
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•Through the model of discipleship (mentoring). I.e. – If you only tell me I’ll forget, show me and I’ll remember, involve me and I’ll understand.
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Christian discipleship imparts meaning through relationship and by affirming our true identity rooted in God’s love as opposed to value in “some-thing relationship”. It strips away a lifestyle of lies believed and acted out and re-creates a new identity.
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•When a change is made the way in which a women thinks about herself, her own life and her child; her subsequent behavior will reflect that change and she will move further from being controlled by her circumstances and closer to an overcoming lifestyle.
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Location
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•Year built - 1850
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•3.25 acres
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•3250 square feet, 5 current large bedrooms.
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•Currently 1 full bath and 2 half baths… would need to remodel the 2 half baths into full baths.
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•Completely remodeled in past 6 years. All new wiring, plumbing, HVAC, roof, paint, siding, etc.
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•No adjacent residential neighbors – only township owned green strip and light industry across the street.
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•3 out buildings. Two barns and a servant’s quarters which could be renovated as live in quarters or office/counseling center, group studies room, chapel, etc.