Aid To Women

The mission of Aid to Women is to empower women to choose life through Christ-centered education, counseling and support.

Description:
Aid to Women is non-profit Christian pregnancy resource center which empowers multiple generations to make positive and healthy choices. Aid to Women provides sexual integrity education to schools, churches, and community organizations to help students form healthy boundaries in relationships. The agency also provides education and compassionate support to women dealing with an unintended pregnancy through free pregnancy tests and options counseling. In addition, Aid to Women offers hope and healing to women struggling with a past abortion experience through a recovery class led by post-abortive women. Through the Earn While You Learn program, ATW offers on-going support to women and families through life skills classes and material assistance, including food, clothing, and baby items. You can learn more at www.aidtowomenministry.com.

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History:
Aid to Women was birthed in 1983 when a group of Christians in the community saw a need to provide counseling that upholed the sanctity of life for women facing unplanned pregnancies. Throughout the ministry's 26-year history, Aid to Women has always had two primary goals: to help women choose life and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and action. Accomplishing these goals has led to growth and change. Aid to Women expanded over the years to add life skills classses and material assistance, responding to the finding that the numer one reason women choose abortion is a lack of support. The ministry also added prevention services, teahcing sexual integrity in the community to help young people avoid starting down a path that could lead to abortion. Services expanded to include abortion-recovery classes to help women work through their grief, guilt and shame and experience freedom in God.

The flood of 2008 was a turning point fo rAid to Women. Coming off a 25-year anniversary celebration, most of the physical representation of the ministry was wiped out. This led to a time of seeking hard after God for His vision of the ministry's future while continuing to provide services to clients from 5 different temporary sites in the city. The redesigned building makes better use of the space and provides a more confidential environment for pregnancy testing and options counseling. Clients often comment about the calm atmosphere and helpfulness of the staff and volunteers.

Contact people:

Marilyn Schneiderman, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Katie Sandquist, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (319) 247-5784

Address:

701 Center Point Rd. NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.aidtowomenministry.com

Directions:

Aid to Women is located in Cedar Rapids, just north of Coe College Campus and St. Luke's Hospital at the corner of F Ave. and Center Point Rd. We are in a two story beige building on the west. . . (more)

Last updated on October 29, 2009