Well, this is a bit late, but here's the followup from my previous blog. The home visit with the young pregnant woman and her mother was difficult visit for me. Not only is the future of this young mother and baby uncertain and most likely to be difficult, but this girl's mother has cancer as well.
The longer we were in their one room apartment more and more issues, present difficulties and future difficulties came up. For many of the of the issues discussed all we could do was encourage them, make suggestions about healthy choices, and point out available resources that could help them. In this time of crisis for this family we continued to remind them of God's promises, read the Bible with them, and pray with them. The mom is a Christian, but when we asked her daughter, her response was that all her friends in school are Catholic, so she's decided to be Catholic as well. They do have some support from some of the family, but other parts of the family has disowned them. Needless to say, it's a difficult situation for all.
We will continue to visit them and support them in all the ways we can. My prayer is that we are able to share the love of Christ with them and that we would walk with them through this difficult time in their lives.
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