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The following are areas in which you can serve:

Lay Counselor:  Provide counsel and support for a woman suspecting or experiencing a crisis pregnancy, help her work through the various decisions facing her, educate her on the issues surrounding abortion, parenting and adoption, support in Christian love, and establish a relationship for the duration of her pregnancy and beyond, when necessary. Involves one 2 to 4-hour shift per week. (Training Seminar Required)

Client line Volunteer:  Answer the phone in your home when the Center is closed--usually between 5 p.m. and 10 a.m.. This involves counseling, answering various types of questions and scheduling appointments. (Training Seminar Required)

Speakers' Bureau Speaker:  Go into churches or other groups to educate congregations, women's groups, youth groups, etc., through the use of films and discussions about this ministry and other important issues involving sexuality and abortion, self-image, peer pressure, teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, relationships, sex versus love, and choosing to save sex for marriage.

Babysitter: Baby-sit free for women taking the Training Seminar and for volunteers during their counseling shift at the Center. Provide occasional babysitting for clients' babies.

Fundraising: Work on a committee to generate ideas and carry out fundraising activities such as a concert, banquet, walk-a-thon, garage sale, golf tournament, donut sale, auction, etc.

Cleaners: A team of people who would clean the Center on a regular basis.

Material Resources: Wash, mend, sort, and organize donations of maternity clothes, baby clothes, furniture, and make-up layettes for new babies. Send out thank you notes for special donations.

-- Organize a maternity clothes/baby clothes/layette drive at your church.

-- Seamstress, to make maternity clothes when necessary.

-- Provide fabric, patterns, sewing items.

-- Quilters, to make baby quilts of flannel as gifts to clients.

-- Back-yard sale goers, get cribs, car seats, high chairs, strollers, bassinets, at bargain prices and donate to Center.

Newsletter: Meet and discuss the content of the Abel Center newsletter, ABELetter. Write articles and find contributors. Help with bulk mailings.

Receptionist/Typist: Clerical work, meet people who come into the Center. Offer drinks, make people feel welcome and answer the phone. (Training Seminar Required)

Friendship Builder: Women befriending women and men befriending men. May include talking on the telephone, sharing dinner, inviting client to a Bible study or church service, providing transportation, etc.--Titus 2:4-5

Board Member: Serve a three year term in a leadership role helping to set policy and guide.

Prayer Coordinator: Assist with prayer chain. Prayer needs coordinator.

Is God leading you to volunteer?

Over-commitment is a serious problem that we create for ourselves when we can't say "No" to a request for our time. You may have felt the pressure of working all day and attending meetings three or four nights in one week. It’s not a good feeling.

In guarding against this type of pressure it would be easy to avoid commitment of any kind - but there is a balance. Finding that balance takes a commitment to seek the Lord for His guidance in how our time is spent.

The ongoing ministry of the Abel Center depends on volunteers who have responded to the leading of the Lord. There are many opportunities for services, and everyone who desires to help can find a way to do so.

The small amount of time you give (even as little as one hour per week) will accomplish much for eternal value. "So be careful how you act, these are difficult days. Don't be fools; be wise; make the most of every opportunity you have for doing good. Don’t act thoughtlessly but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to." Ephesians 5:15-17.

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