Client Services: Educational Support

Pregnancy Testing & Counseling
In a private, confidential, and caring environment, women in crisis pregnancy situations are able to get information not only about their pregnancy but about their options, including parenting, adoption, and abortion,* as well as about abstinence, relationships, and continuing with school or work. Many of our clients meet with our counselors many times over the course of their pregnancy and the early weeks, months, and even years of their children’s lives. (*We do not perform, recommend or refer for abortion.)

Ultrasound Imaging
We perform a free, limited obstetrical ultrasound. The ultrasound determines the gestational age, that the fetus is inside the uterus, and that the heart is beating. We offer a free picture of the ultrasound image.

Resource Library
In order to support the health and strength of the growing families of our clients, we have developed an always increasing library of video and print resources on topics such as fetal development, changes to the body during pregnancy, coping with morning sickness, labor and delivery, adoption, the baby's first year, the toddler years, and many others. We also provide informational resources on breastfeeding, smoking during pregnancy, choosing childcare, filing for child support, and many other issues important to expectant and new mothers. When finances allow, the Center provides each client a copy of the book, What to Expect When You are Expecting, an invaluable resource in helping the expectant mother understand and acknowledge that she is expecting a baby.

Abstinence Training
Many different organizations–schools, churches, and others–who deal with teenagers and young men and women recognize that the very need for pregnancy counseling very often arises from irresponsible sexual relations. Recognizing that the only truly effective means of preventing pregnancy outside of marriage is abstinence, the Center promotes abstinence through its Abstinence Training Program, using the F.A.C.T.S. program (Focusing on Abstinence: Communicating the Truth about Sex), a fun, informative, interactive abstinence program that presents the Biblical truth concerning God’s plan for us as sexual beings. Also, clients whose pregnancy tests are negative are offered a brief but intensive course in abstinence, focusing on secondary virginity.

Client Services: Practical Support

Referrals & Support
Our clients have a variety of needs. We are able to give them referrals within our community for prenatal care, Medicaid, and other social services. When a client makes the choice of adoption for her child, we offer referrals and support with organizations that can help her through this process. In all of these circumstances, we do all we can to provide our clients with the information and support they need.

Parenting & Life Skills Program
Our once-small maternity clothing boutique has developed over the years into one of the largest aspects of our ministry. Through the gifts of many in our community, we are able to provide our clients with not only maternity clothing but many essential items needed for caring for newborns through 2T, from diapers to baby food, to clothing and blankets, and the list goes on. Though some of these items are certainly limited in quantity, God seems to enable us to meet our clients' needs in remarkable and ever-increasing ways.

Client Services: Spiritual Support

Bible Studies
At the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, we recognize that many of our clients' needs are spiritual, as well as physical and emotional. For this reason, we provide several Bible studies focusing on a number of pregnancy and family-related issues. We offer a Bible study designed specifically for women who have had one or more abortions called Forgiven and Set Free. Bible studies are also offered that are designed for clients who desire spiritual growth in their everyday life.

The Ministry of Prayer
This is the quiet and unseen part of our ministry. Each month a prayer calendar is developed and provided to our staff, prayer support volunteers, and Board Members. Our clients are remembered in daily prayers and with particular attention to specific needs on days of special occasion. When a client comes in with a particularly difficult situation, the word is immediately passed throughout the Center, and concerted prayers are offered up. It has on occasion made the difference between life and death. On the third Wednesday of each month, our prayer team meets at the Center before hours of operation and prays for the specific needs of our clients, our staff, and the Center. Many of the most important moments of our Center’s history have proceeded directly from these powerful moments of prayer.

An Evangelical Ministry
Of the many and often desperate needs that our clients bring to the Center, we are always mindful that there is none greater than their need for the saving grace of the Lord Jesus, and it is our greatest blessing indeed when, as the Lord moves, our clients surrender their lives into the healing and life-giving hands of our Savior.