LifeBridge received the following letter from the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center after recently giving funds from our 15% quarterly donations.
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Let’s help some kids get “Back to School” this Fall!
The LifeBridge Women’s Ministry, in partnership with the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center, is working to help children and families in need get “back to school” by helping to with some needed school supplies.
The Backpack Drive will go from July 11 to August 8, 2021.
Here’s what you do:
- Pick a backpack off the chalkboard in the back of the sanctuary
- Buy and fill a backpack with the supplies on the attached list
- Return the backpack (filled with the supplies and original name you picked off the chalkboard) to LifeBridge by August 8
That’s it!
Thanks for being a blessing to others!
LifeBridge received this “thank you” from the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center in April. The Pregnancy Center received a portion of LifeBridge’s 15% quarterly gifts.
From the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center:
We at Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center want to take this opportunity to thank you. Our moms were very happy to receive the gifts at our annual Children’s Christmas Party. It has meant a lot. Because of you 84 children will wake up to presents under the tree this year. For some, these will be the only gifts these children will receive on Christmas Day.
The mothers were elated at the unexpected beautiful stockings and Christmas hams. The backpacks kept the kiddo’s busy and their focus away from Santa’s delivery bags. Of course, Santa was a great hit!
Special thanks to David and Shannon Walker for coordinating and putting together the Angel Tree and the mother’s stockings.
Thank you again for your generous and kind gifts and Merry Christmas,
Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center
LifeBridge was blessed to contribute to the SPRC. We received this note in return.
Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center
2019 Annual Children’s Christmas Party
Saturday, December 14, 2019
11am to 2pm
Make a Child’s Christmas, a day to remember. Take an Angel from the tree and return the wrapped present by Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
All gifts are sent home with mom to be placed under the tree to be opened on Christmas Morning.
Join us on Sunday, October 20, from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM for a Fish Fry FUNdrai$er, benefiting the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center!
Location is the drive thru behind the K.C. Hall at 1390 Hwy. 90 West in Sealy.
Tickets are $10 and are available Mondays-Thursdays, 9:00AM – 5:00PM, at the Pregnancy Resource Center, located at 2555 FM 1094, or call (979) 472-8663.
See you there!
It’s Back-2-School time and we can help others by supplying items needed by student who have difficulty affording them.
Helping is an easy 3-part process:
- Pick up an empty backpack from the chalkboard at the back of the sanctuary
- Fill it with the items on the attached list
- Return to LifeBridge on or before August 11
That’s it!
Thanks for you help!
12 Bottles were returned with a total of $302.79!
Way to go, LifeBridge!!
Beginning next Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 12, through Sunday, May 26, LifeBridge will be doing a “Change for Life” drive for the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center. This drive is for change that makes a difference!
Pick up a bottle in the sanctuary, fill it, and bring it back by Sunday, May 26, when it will be blessed and dedicated.
Your change can make a difference! Support the lives of babies and mothers by filling this bottle with your change, bills, and checks and returning it for collection. Your donations will be used to save the lives of babies and make a positive impact on the mothers. Please join with us in making a lasting difference in this life and the next.
“Change for Life” Bottle for the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center
The following article is from a write-up from an associated entity of the Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center (“SPRC”). The SPRC is located on the LifeBridge campus and run by LB’s amazing, Pat Penner.
The entity has requested we do not attribute or credit them in this reproduction.
We are very proud of the center and all it does as well as all the LB folks who routinely volunteer there!
WAY TO GO!
Drive an hour west of Houston and you’ll come upon Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center (SPRC), situated amongst sprawling green fields, a speckling of quaint houses and grazing cows. The center opened in the rural community (population 6,488) in 2016, and is housed in the tail-end of a barndo-building connected to a church.
“We’re a little bit country,” says Executive Director Patricia Penner. “The clients love it because it’s laid-back and comfortable and it fits us. They sometimes sit on our large patio and chat or just relax and drink a bottle of water.”
But Penner – who works with eight volunteers and one paid staff member – says serving a rural community presents its own challenges like unreliable transportation and a demographic grappling with poverty.
“The average client income is less than $14,000 a year and access to local medical care is limited though getting better slowly,” she says. “It’s easier for women to go to Houston for an abortion and no one will ever know.”
Statistics are unavailable due to no local hospital, she notes. The center offers home visits and delivers formula and other needed supplies. For those that prefer to come to the center, SPRC will pay for their transportation.
In response to a rise in high school pregnancies in their surrounding communities, they stay in touch with local school counselors to ensure the girls are receiving proper medical care early in their pregnancy as well as prenatal education. The center averages 660 client visits a year, with an average of 86 unique clients (a 51% increase as compared to 1Q 2018).
As for best practice tips?
“Be flexible,” she says. “No two clients are the same. Many times, we have to change how we are doing things in order to best work with them. Never become so rigid that you can’t sit down with your staff and talk about what recommendations they have or changes we need to make to better serve our clients based on what we see.”
Penner advises other leaders to network, above all – both with other centers and agencies that can provide assistance to clients.“We are not in this alone,” she says, who herself consulted with fellow Provider Houston Pregnancy Center for guidance to get up and running. Periodically her staff gets together for lunch and coordinates with another center for a tour.
“We then re-group and discuss what we have seen and talked about and what changes we can make to improve.”
So the next time you’re near Sealy, stop in. Just be alert to the curious cows who reside behind a fence that butts up against their lot, says Penner.
“If you park too close to the fence, they’ll look to you to feed them. Sometimes, one will escape down the road.”
Sealy Pregnancy Resource Center, Associated Entity
