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2021 Beneficiaries

Each of these beneficiaries has been carefully selected and are committed to serving daily in implementing our mission of empowering women, men and youth to make life-affirming choices and to raising public awareness of the complex issues that surround unplanned pregnancies. CFL is grateful for the faith-based, compassionate services that these agencies provide and for their tireless commitment to the sanctity of life.

Celebrating Life Luncheon Beneficiaries

  • Abel Speaks
    abelspeaks.org
    Abel Speaks supports families who have chosen to carry a child with a life-limiting diagnosis and is premised on the belief that every child’s life can be beautiful and meaningful, no matter the length. Their vision is that every family will cherish their child’s life and experience joy and hope even in the midst of sorrow. Funds are for the salary of a full-time Director of Family Care who will serve as the chief correspondent and overseer of the parents they support, which has just eclipsed 100 families.
  • Bella House
    bellahouse.org
    Bella House is a residence for homeless pregnant women in two single-family homes located in Plano and Dallas, that can shelter up to 12 mothers and their babies at a time. Bella House offers a safe haven pre-birth and 6-12 months after a baby’s birth where enriching programs inspire transformation and a new start for brighter futures for mothers and their children. Funds are for a new Transition Support and Outreach program providing ongoing assistance for three years to mothers seeking to better themselves, including caseworker, job search, postnatal care and educational support and material needs for their babies to keep these women on a transformational path.
  • Birth Choice of Dallas
    birthchoicedallas.org
    Birth Choice of Dallas is a pregnancy resource clinic providing free and confidential services with a mission to save lives from abortion. Accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Birth Choice is located in the same business complex as the leading abortion provider of North Texas, Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center. Funds support the new Client Services Director position which will enhance workflow and provide supplemental training for client advocates to equip them for successful counseling sessions that empower the client to choose life for their unborn child.
  • Bridges Safehouse
    bridgessafehouse.org
    Bridges Safehouse provides safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. They support women from pregnancy through parenting with trauma informed care practices and a residential program. Funds are for ongoing operations costs, salaries for staff dedicated to equip expectants mothers through one-on-one mentoring, life skills classes and spiritual development and resident needs such as childcare, education and connection to long-term housing and other community resources.
  • Buckner Children and Family Services
    buckner.org
    Buckner believes adoption is a profound way to change a child’s life forever. Buckner Children and Family Services is a licensed foster care and adoption agency offering their clients life-affirming options. Their mission is to protect children, promote independence and build strong families through Christ-centered values. Funds will integrate and expand their Life Design and Maternity Services program to serve more women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, including and the salary of a Life Design family counselor, marketing materials and training of hospital labor, delivery and postpartum nurses and staff.
  • ChristianWorks for Children
    christian-works.org
    The mission of ChristianWorks for Children is to represent the goodness of God to children and their families by continuing Jesus Christ’s example of service and to help children and families meet life’s greatest challenges through their counseling services and free support groups. Funds are for a dedicated BecomingMom Specialist in Fort Worth to expand the reach of their BecomingMom program that provides free counseling, classes and material support to expectant parents and parents of children from birth to 36 months.
  • Hope Women’s Center
    myhope.org
    Located in McKinney, Hope Women’s Center affirms the life of the preborn child by providing complimentary and confidential medical and educational services to teens and women in unplanned pregnancies and encouraging Christ-centered, life-affirming decisions and healthy lifestyles. Funds will be used for the salary of a full-time Nurse Manager responsible for supervising clinic functions and working with medical team members to assure patients receive the best medical, nursing and psychosocial care possible.
  • In My Shoes
    liveinmyshoes.org
    Located in Dallas, In My Shoes serves women who are pregnant and homeless or at risk of homelessness by providing community living and a safe environment for both the mother and baby and the guidance, support and resources necessary for an independent life. Funds are for salaries of a Director of Operations and Human Resource and a Recruiting Coordinator to efficiently and effectively meet the needs of their residents due to exponential growth of In My Shoes over the past several years.
  • Just Say YES – Youth Equipped to Succeed
    justsayyes.org
    Just Say YES grows value and vision in youth by combatting isolation and imparting hope, with the philosophy that a connected student is a protected student. Funds are for their revising their successful, engaging Rock the Talk program, now called Time to Talk, with new personal stories, speakers and nonprofit partners to equip parents to discuss sex and other critical topics necessary for them to be the primary sex educators of their children.
  • Mid Cities Women’s Clinic
    mcwomensclinic.com
    Mid Cities Women’s Clinic provides complimentary and confidential services to women and men in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make healthy life choices consistent with the value of every human life, with the ultimate hope they find new life through Jesus Christ. Funds are for geofencing and improved targeted marketing to more effectively reach abortion-minded and abortion-vulnerable women within their service area, the need for which is greater than ever due to the increase in women requesting abortion medication.
  • Pregnancy Help 4 U
    ph4u.org
    Pregnancy Help 4 U serves women and families with unplanned pregnancies at no charge in the cities of Keller, Roanoke, North Fort Worth, North Richland Hills, Haltom City and Argyle by walking with them, without judging them, to provide caring, life-affirming solutions, along with resources to succeed while sharing the love of Christ. Funds are for telehealth service, including video technology for in-demand virtual appointments, salary for a Registered Nurse, as well as certification for an RN to become a Nurse Practitioner to offer abortion-vulnerable clients pre-OB exams and other medical provisions to promote healthy pregnancy outcomes.
  • Pregnancy Lifeline
    pregnancylifeline.net
    Pregnancy Lifeline provides free and confidential services to women in the Fort Worth community with a holistic approach that embodies Christ’s love during and after an untimely pregnancy by providing accurate information regarding abortion, adoption, single parenting and marriage, promoting sexual purity and support for post abortive women. Funds are for an additional state of the art sonogram machine that will provide life-like images in 3D and 4D meeting the growing need of abortion determined women to clearly see their babies, hear their lifesaving heartbeat and choose life.
  • Pregnancy Resource Center of Rockwall and Mesquite
    options4me.org
    Pregnancy Resource Center of Rockwall and Mesquite provides free and confidential services to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies with the mission to equip them to make life-affirming and informed choices using Biblically based principles and to demonstrate the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. Funds will expand their administrative building space to continue to operate with excellence and safely oversee the projected 2,200 clients served annually.
  • Prestonwood Pregnancy Center
    prestonwoodpregnancy.org
    Prestonwood Pregnancy Center exists to honor the Lord through commitment to the sanctity of life by advocating for the right to life of unborn children. With a mobile sonogram unit and a Richardson center and Southwest Dallas center located across the street from Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facility, Prestonwood Pregnancy Center provides their services free to expectant mothers and their families. Funds are for the salary of an additional Nurse Sonographer at their Southwest Dallas location to ensure that every abortion-minded woman who walks through their doors will receive a same day sonogram.
  • Real Options for Women
    realoptionstx.com
    Real Options for Women is a pregnancy resource medical clinic in Plano providing free services to Collin County and North Dallas. Their mission is to empower women, men and students to make physical, emotional and spiritual choices that affirm life and health. Over the last 12 months, Real Options has seen a 49% increase in at-risk clients. Funds are for a portable sonogram machine and to hire/train an additional part-time Nurse Sonographer which will increase their client load within their existing clinic and enable them to reach undeserved, abortion-vulnerable parts of the community through pop-up clinics.
  • Students for Life of America
    studentsforlife.org
    Students for Life of America exists to recruit, train and mobilize the Pro-Life Generation to abolish abortion. Funds are for the Pro-Life Future Dallas Campaign, an innovative and multi-faceted approach to directly impact and reduce the abortion rate and build a strong culture of life throughout the Dallas metro area through a grassroots, campus and community, and digital marketing campaign with three objectives: (1) change minds of the cultural drivers, young people, on abortion; (2) increase awareness of the local abortion-free pregnancy resource organizations; and (3) decrease support for and customers of local abortion facilities.
  • Thrive Women’s Clinic
    thrivewomensclinic.com
    Thrives extends Christ-like love in a compassionate and responsive manner that values the family and empowers women and their partners to choose life. Thrive provides free and confidential services at their four clinics in Dallas county and through their two international partners in Uganda and Chile. Funds are for the salary of the critically important role Director of Clinic Services to provide medical services of pregnancy testing, sonography and a medical history review with each client in an unplanned pregnancy and to work closely with the Medical Director, updating and developing policies, training and overseeing nursing staff and medical volunteers and ensuring fidelity of practices.
  • Viola’s House
    violashouse.org
    Viola’s House exists to provide maternity housing and support services to teen mothers in South Dallas who choose life for their unborn child. Funds are for a new Benefit Store opening in 2021 in which the community can shop for used baby items, but the mothers and residents they serve can shop for free for all their baby needs, including receiving diapers and wipes, once a month. The store will also pair as classroom space for their parenting classes, GED classes, life skills classes and specialty licensing classes.
  • Vitae Foundation
    vitaefoundation.org
    Vitae Foundation is the world’s leader in research of abortion decision-making and how best to apply that research to marketing messages. In addition to crafting the right message and testing that message, Vitae designs marketing strategies for effectively delivering that message to not only reduce the number of abortions but also change the culture. Funds are for a three-month geofencing campaign focused on women of child-bearing age for a local Dallas Pregnancy Help Center and to fund a presentation of the campaign’s discoveries to all PHCs and pro-life agencies in the DFW Metroplex.
  • YoungLives, a Ministry of Young Life
    younglives.younglife.org
    Young Life introduces adolescents to Jesus Christ and helps them grow in their faith. YoungLives is Young Life’s special outreach for teenage girls from all socioeconomic backgrounds facing unplanned pregnancies and motherhood that brings them together with mature Christian women mentors. Funds will propel YoungLives into Dallas County inner-city neighborhoods where there are hundreds of girls experiencing crisis pregnancy to help transition back to in-person events, camping and mentorship. Vulnerable teen parents will receive unwavering, consistent support from their mentor, while hearing about an unwavering, consistent God who wants life to the full for them and their unborn babies.

2021 Run for Life Beneficiaries

  • Christian Homes & Family Services
    christianhomes.com
    Christian Homes & Family Services pursues their vision of a Christian home for every child by offering women with unplanned pregnancies the physical, emotional and spiritual support they need to choose life for their babies, and if a woman chooses also the support and legal assistance needed to place her baby for adoption. Their mission is to change lives and build Christian families through maternity, adoption and foster care services. Christian Homes & Family Services uses a proven curriculum to teach and train women who are abortion-minded and/or not sure about adoption and how it works. Funds are to offer adoption in a lunch-and-learn type setting and equip and teach health care professionals, hospital social workers, and crisis pregnancy volunteers and staff members to counsel women who are abortion-minded and/or uninformed about the adoption process.
  • AdoptionWorks, a ChristianWorks for Children Ministry
    christian-works.org
    The mission of ChristianWorks for Children is to represent the goodness of God to children and their families by continuing Jesus Christ’s example of service. AdoptionWorks is a fully licensed child-placing agency that falls under the ministry of ChristianWorks and provides infant domestic adoption services to birth families adoptive couples and adoptees. The goal of their Post Adoption Support Group program is to provide adopted families community and support in their adoption journey at no cost to the family. These support groups are led by a licensed Christian counselor, who has training and experience in adoption, with one volunteer facilitator who has personal or family connection to adoption. AdoptionWorks also offers a free post-placement support group for women who have made an adoption plan for their baby. Funds are for the salary of an additional therapist as the program continues to grow, meals for both volunteers and participants, curriculum for the birth mother group, and training for the staff.
  • Embrace Waiting Children
    embracetexas.org
    Embrace Waiting Children’s mission is to connect willing hands with opportunities to serve children in foster, adoptive, and kinship care. Embrace works in the North Dallas community to raise awareness about the crisis of children lingering in foster care waiting for adoption, and teens who “age-out” of foster care without a home or family. Embrace works with Child Protective Services and churches for foster parent recruitment showcasing a child's personality through the "Portraits of Hope" gallery which is part of their "Child to Family Connection" program (C2FC). C2FC replaces the CPS approach to "match" adoption-motivated families with children waiting in foster care in a carnival-like setting where the prospective adoptive parents observed and interacted with these children. Often these children have already spent several years in foster care, drifting from placement to placement before they become eligible for adoption. Funding primarily covers staff time as well as printing costs for the gallery portraits at the C2FC events.
  • Lifeline Children’s Services
    lifelinechild.org
    The mission of Lifeline Children’s Services is to equip the body of Christ to manifest the gospel to vulnerable children. They are a holistic orphan-care ministry that ultimately desires to share the gospel through helping men and women in unplanned pregnancy, parents of children in foster care, at-risk families, orphaned and vulnerable children locally and across the world, and families in the midst of adoption or foster care. Funds are for the salary of a counselor tasked to: (1) Train and Educate the Social Service and Labor & Delivery Teams in local Hospitals to refer women in unplanned pregnancies to Lifeline for options counseling and (2) Train and Educate PRCs and abortion referral centers to refer women to Lifeline for options counseling. Goals: Help additional women be referred to Lifeline for options counseling to choose life for their babies, prevent babies from entering foster care system, from living with parents not equipped to parent and to protect from abuse; to understand her own unique options, to have wellness care for her and the baby and hear the gospel and know more about God's love for her.

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