Stories from people who discovered the Jesus-centered approach that finally fits
"I found 'the answer' to one of life's most divisive issues"
Lisa Stalford | Grace Partner, Texas
For fifteen years, I’ve been trying to be more purposeful in my Christian walk, studying the Bible to understand God’s nature and character. I wanted to apply this understanding to critical global issues and decide where I stood from a biblical lens.
This led me to question the church’s response to social problems. I felt a disconnect between Jesus’s example and how we relate to people as the Church. I discovered some churches are unsafe places where people cannot be honest with their pain or get help—judgment has replaced grace.
I felt overwhelmed by the complexity of today’s problems until I stumbled upon the Holy Post Podcast with Angela Weszely as the featured guest, discussing a third-option approach to abortion. I felt I had found “the answer” to one of life’s most divisive issues.
What a beautiful name, ProGrace! I was introduced to a Kingdom perspective based on how Jesus would respond—equal love for the woman and the child. ProGrace understands how we can move conversations to help us think, talk, and act differently as individuals and as the Church.
We must love the woman as God loves her. Placing shame solely upon her and offering no real support for her to care for and raise a child leaves us complicit in her decision. We can do better. We are called to do better.
Can you imagine a world where a woman finds herself pregnant and scared, with no financial or emotional support, and thinks: “I know where I can get help—down the street at the corner church!” For the Church to make a difference in women’s lives is truly Jesus’s response in action.
I am not Pro-Life. I am not Pro-Choice. I am ProGrace!
"We felt comforted knowing we weren't alone"
Andrea Capuyan, Executive Director | Laurel Pregnancy Center, Maryland
When we found ProGrace, we were already on a journey of doing things differently. We wanted to care equally for the woman and child, like God does—listening to our clients and meeting them where they are rather than trying to influence their decisions.
Many pregnancy resource centers have been entangled with political activism, focused on pregnancy decision outcomes without understanding the realities women face. We set ourselves apart by treating our clients the way Jesus would, emphasizing listening and understanding their stories, which often include trauma and vulnerability.
Our new mindset made us an outlier in the pregnancy resource field and began to put us on the outside of relationships with other centers. Finding ProGrace was a breath of fresh air. We felt comforted knowing we weren’t the only ones looking at this field of work and feeling something was missing. It can be lonely to be different.
ProGrace provides me with hope and encouragement as a pregnancy care center leader. Within ProGrace is an awareness of the hard places where we minister—it requires a ministry response that embraces nuance and complexity, with no easy or pat answers. You welcome us to wrestle with hard questions and aim to provide safety and belonging for women who wonder if anyone cares.
The ProGrace Transform and Equip courses gave us the language to express our grace-centered approach in a way our staff and volunteers can understand. It fosters empathy and understanding, which they take into client relationships. Each exit survey where a woman expresses that she felt seen, heard, understood, and respected reinforces the importance of our training.
Our center is in a much better place because of the transformational message of grace from ProGrace content. We all deserve the peace and relief of knowing we have done well as faithful servants and that we are not alone.
"It opened a door of conversation for both of us"
Lucy | Parent bridging generational divides
I have two young-adult daughters whose views connect with the woman’s ability to choose. My younger daughter Lauren attends a Christian college but carries the pain of past church hurt and disappointment.
Lauren visited a church in fall 2022 where she landed in the middle of a message celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She wondered if there were women sitting in that church who might be feeling shame as a result of the pastor’s comments about the “dark sin” of abortion. She was completely turned off and told me it would be a long while before she set foot in a church again. Naturally, I was disappointed.
I shared the message of ProGrace with Lauren, and she connected with the ProGrace approach to abortion as well as the idea of God’s love for all people impacted by abortion.
It opened a door of conversation for both of us, and it opened my eyes wider to the idea that the church needs language around this issue so young girls and women can have a safe place to turn if they find themselves in an unexpected pregnancy situation—or if they just need to wrestle with loving others better.
I was thankful for ProGrace giving me the language to have these important conversations with my daughters.
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