The question churches can no longer ignore
By Care-net.org · Mar 01, 2017
36 percent of women who have abortions report they attend church
If a woman in your congregation faced an unplanned pregnancy, to whom could she turn for support?
As a member of my church’s leadership team, this question has bothered me for too long. I have grown up in the church. My father is a pastor, my grandparents and great-grandparents were missionaries, and there have been 17 pastors within three generations of my family. To say that church has been a large part of my life is an understatement. I sang the songs, bought the youth camp t-shirts, and ate the potluck dinners.
Yet, I am not sure that I can answer this question for my current church, nor do I feel I could answer it about the church in which I grew up.
This is a problem.