Why Pro-Life Had A Huge Impact In My Life

Psa. 139:13-16
 “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.  Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”

I have been pro-life since I became a Christian in 1968.  I became politically active in the spring of 1973 and wrote my senators to pass a constitutional amendment to protect the life of the unborn after Roe vs Wade.  

Eloise and I as a couple became involved in pregnancy care centers wherever we were in the state of Missouri.  Then in the summer of 1995 we faced a crisis as a family. Our middle daughter Amy was pregnant beginning her senior year in High School.  We had a choice to encourage abortion and keep it secret or carry through with what we believed.  There was no doubt about what we would do. Our daughter chose life.

As a bi-vocational pastor, I offered my resignation after Amy confessed before the church.  That Ridgeway Baptist Church did not accept my resignation, and they covered my daughter and my family with love, forgiveness, and helped us through a very tough time.
Our first grandchild, Kaylie, was born on January 13, 1996, and became a great blessing to our family.  Amy went on as a single mother and graduated from Missouri Western to be a teacher. Amy teaches in the fourth grade at New Heights. Amy and her husband serve in CCO Church and help disciple blended families for the Lord.

Kaylie, the granddaughter, became the valedictorian in her graduating class at Carl Junction and then graduated with highest honors in Journalism at the University of Missouri.  She also worked for six years at the BSU at MIZZOU discipling college students for the Lord.  Kaylie and her husband live in St. Louis now.
 
We took a stand for life which was life changing at the time. But the rewards were overwhelming. We experienced the love, grace and mercy of a wonderful church during that crisis time which was very humbling.

Therefore, please vote no on Amendment 3 to help save a preborn like Kaylie.

Be involved in your local pregnancy care center like “Life Choices.”

Come alongside and forgive, show grace, and help with those who have made mistakes and guide them along the way of new life in Christ and disciple them.

And lastly, I'm sure there are women in churches that chose to abort their babies and suffer in silence. I say God loves you and will forgive you. I say as a Christian brother I forgive and love you. Let’s go forward, work through the heartache, the unbearable hurt, and the embarrassment and see how God the Father is the Chainbreaker.   I Jn. 1:9 “If you confess your sin. He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive  your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.”  
 
-Bro. Ken Hawkins
Senior Adult Pastor