Amanda Franks, Author at Care Net Peninsula

November 6, 2024February 15, 2025

172 Lives Saved this Year, Thanks to You!

172 Lives Saved this Year - Thanks to You!

As we lean into this season of thanks, our hearts are bursting with gratitude over the abundance of women served and lives saved in 2024. Already, we’ve served nearly as many women this year than throughout all of 2023—and there are still two months to go! Here’s a look at some of this year’s accomplishments:

854 Women served
172 Minds changed (women who were considering abortion but chose life)
463 Women receiving essential items to care for their babies

While these numbers and growth are inspiring, our focus remains, as Jesus taught, on each individual—the one who walks through our doors feeling hopeless, believing abortion is her only option in an unplanned pregnancy; the one facing crisis upon crisis with no one to turn to.

Because of you, she finds someone who listens, who offers hope and practical resources that make a real difference in her time of need. Thanks to you, lives are changed. Thanks to you, lives are being saved. Please continue to pray for the women that will come to us in the next weeks.

Anne Sych, Director of Development

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

October 24, 2024April 14, 2025

A Family YOU Helped This Year!

Below are some sweet pics of a family YOU provided help and hope to this past year! Thank you for praying over our moms, babies, and their families CNP Family. We’re so grateful for the love and support you provide.

Family Photos - Care Net Peninsula - Newport News, VA - Virginia

Photos By: Roma Nicholson, Volunteer Photographer

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

October 18, 2024October 22, 2024

Get to Know Emalee

Our Development Coordinator

Many of you have gotten to know our Development Coordinator, Emalee Yow, through the Walk4Life and the Peninsula4Life Dinner this year. But we thought it was time to really introduce her to the CNP Family!

A native of New Bern, North Carolina, Emalee moved to Virginia with her husband, Adam, to be part of the Manna Church Newport News relaunch. Over the past few years, God has been moving to bring Emalee to our team.

Before her move to VA, Emalee earned a Bachelor’s degree from Manna University and served as a Missions and Outreach Intern at Manna Church in Fayetteville. During this time, she worked hard on her skills in planning and executing large-scale events, outreaches, and mission trips.

Emalee’s proficiency in these areas made her transition into the role of Development Coordinator smooth when she joined us earlier this year in the middle of Walk4Life planning and Bottles4Life Campaigns, and we know she has been a blessing to the Development team.

If you’ve ever met or talked to Emalee, you know right away why we’re all so grateful to have her on our team. In fact, it’s hard to believe she hasn’t even been with us for a whole year yet!

So feel free to stop by and say hi to Emalee, learn about our upcoming fundraising events, and grab a cup of coffee.

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

October 22, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

October 17, 2024February 15, 2025

When Going Above and Beyond Makes All the Difference

When Going Above and Beyond Makes a Difference

Although the clinic is open during daytime hours, our nurses and advocates frequently serve vulnerable women around the clock to support themin their time of need.

One example of this happened this week! On Tuesday, one of our advocates received an after hours call from a client in a very dangerous situation and in need of an escape. The team immediately collaborated to find a safe place for this client and one of our advocates personally drove this young woman, late in the night, to get her to a maternity home and away from harm. For our team to be able to connect this woman to a maternity home in less than 24 hours was a miracle in itself! Typically, the maternity homes in Virginia are continuously booked and working on a wait list. Yet, God provided an opening the exact same day this woman reached out for help.

Our team consistently gives above and beyond every week to support women as they navigate hard circumstances in their pursuit to choose LIFE for their babies!

Your support of this mission helps us continue to connect vulnerable clients in our area to the practical and spiritual help and hope they need. Please pray with us for the continued safety, protection, and health of this client and her baby.

Anne Sych, Director of Development

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

September 17, 2024February 15, 2025

Two Failed Abortion Attempts = LIFE For A Beautiful, Baby Girl

Two failed abortion attempts =

life for a beautiful, baby girl!

The other month we celebrated the birth of Baby N! This client came to us extremely abortion minded from the time she walked in, to the time she walked out and even attempted to abort her baby twice. Yet this little baby escaped death both times!

You might be thinking, how could this little girl have survived two attempts? God used some ordinary and extraordinary means.

We see this frequently. God uses flat tires on the way to the abortion clinic, overbooked appointments at the abortion clinic, google searches, the sign on our street, friends who help them stop and think, the abortion reversal pill, and even strangers outside the abortion clinic to draw them to Alcove Health. This was the case for Baby N and her mom. Divine obstacles interrupted her plans and brought her back to our caring team at Alcove Health where she received the help and hope she needed to choose life for her little girl. They are prime examples of the ordinary and extraordinary ways God protects LIFE inside the womb.

Because of you, we are here for her. Your support to this mission is saving lives every day. Thank you for your faithfulness to this mission!

Anne Sych, Director of Development

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

September 10, 2024April 14, 2025

Lashawna, Mason and Baby Kennedy

One of the families YOU provided help and hope to!

“Alcove has been absolutely amazing! Becoming a new mommy comes with a lot of questions and concerns, and the employees are amazing!! Being blessed with an advocate definitely makes “us” more comfortable with our blessing on the way!”

– Lashawna’s Google Review

Lashawna, Mason and Kennedy at Newport News Park, Virginia

Baby Kennedy at Newport News Park, Virginia

Lashawna and Baby Kennedy at Newport News Park, Virginia

Lashawna, Mason, and Baby Kennedy at Newport News Park, Virginia

Photos By: Cindy Matthews, Volunteer Photographer

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

August 19, 2024September 22, 2024

Bringing Hope To The Women We Serve

Bringing Hope to the Women We Serve

For four years after college, I was a missionary in the Dominican Republic. It was life-changing, and there are still days I’m convinced the mountains of the DR are my most natural habitat.

The experience informed how I think about culture, religion, and politics: those problems every society faces that I try to solve in my head on a morning run.

In the DR, as in most of Latin America and the Caribbean, abortion is illegal and culturally unacceptable. Nothing grieves my heart more than when immigrants feel emboldened by our culture of death to kill their own children. Tragically, this is happening more often. We will serve twice as many Hispanic women considering abortion this year than any previous year.

The great news is that God has gifted our team with multiple bilingual staff and volunteers and our Hispanic clients are 40% more likely than our average client to change their mind and choose life for their baby.

Please pray with me that we would stop exporting our abortion views to other cultures. Pray that our team would be well-equipped to handle clients from any background or language. As always, thank you for your partnership with our ministry.

For Life,

Executive Director

“God has been extremely good to me” – Camela told her church family at World Outreach Worship Center. She had mustered up the courage to share her testimony on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.

“When I arrived in the U.S. from Jamaica, I said, ‘Okay, this is a whole new life!’ I started working and soon had the opportunity to go back for my two children I had to leave behind. While there, I married my daughter’s father, but he couldn’t return with us. While transitioning back to life in the U.S., now with two kids, I realized – I was pregnant.“

Camela’s reaction to the news was a plea to God –

“The thought of abortion came to me, so I went online looking for help. I found Alcove Health and said, ‘Wow! It’s a free clinic!’ and I made an appointment. Upon arriving at my appointment, I realized it was a Christian clinic, and right then and there, I said, ‘Oh, this is not going to work for me.’ But I still went in.“

God was bringing Camela the help and hope she needed, and at that moment, the Holy Spirit was working in her heart to combat the lies in her head about why it wouldn’t work to bring this new life into her life.

“When I met with Nurse Kinta, I told her what I wanted to do. She hugged me and said, ‘No, you’re not going to do that’. Then, on the ultrasound screen, she showed me my little baby. And I said to myself, ‘This is a life inside of me. God, I can’t do it.’

I had given up everything when I found out I was pregnant; I had given up on myself. Care Net Peninsula came into my life, and they brought my hope back. They brought me a mentor, and this is where my spiritual mother came into my life”.

That spiritual mother was Pastor Terrie Council, of WOWC, whom Camela met through our Spiritual Mentorship Program.

“She has been a tower of strength for me and was only supposed to be with me for six weeks. But here we are, almost a year later, as she holds my precious little angel. I was raised in a Godly home by a Pastor and teacher; I knew God. But sometimes, we lose our way. This tremendous woman of God came into my life and mentored me, shared with me, and guided me, never letting me make excuses for myself.

God showed Pastor Terrie something in me that I didn’t even see in myself. She has been there for me when I needed it most and is like a mom to me. God is good. I’ll never leave, and I’ll always be in his sanctuary.”

Because of your support and partnership, we can meet our clients’ physical, mental, and spiritual needs. When a woman comes to us about her unplanned pregnancy, she is presented with an opportunity during that visit to connect with a local Christian woman. This mentor steps into her life and walks alongside her spiritually, showing how great our God is, even in the most challenging of seasons.

Make a Gift Today to Serve Women Like Camela

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

Monday, August 19, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

August 9, 2024February 15, 2025

Olympians Are Not The Only Ones Setting Records

Olympians are not the only ones setting records

Summer doesn’t take a break from unplanned pregnancies and neither do we here at Care Net Peninsula. Our clinic is busier than ever before. In fact, we served an all-time record number of women in just the first 7 months of this year (657 to be exact)! We are so grateful to be able to bring lifesaving help and hope to women facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Many of the women who come through our doors are not making their decision alone. She is often faced with family members and friends counseling her to have an abortion regardless of her desire to carry her baby to birth. As she examines her options, she may be risking many relationships if she chooses life – perhaps even with the father.

This was the case of a brave woman we served last week who went against culture AND family coercion to choose life for her baby.

We understand that it’s complicated, but we are unshakable in our stand for LIFE. We are so proud of this woman and the many women who choose LIFE regardless of the pressure around her!

So when you pray for this ministry and the women we serve, please also remember to pray for the families and friends who are part of the decision. Pray that they will have hearts towards life; for the mom and for the baby. Your prayers are powerful and are making a difference.

Friday, August 9, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

July 23, 2024September 13, 2024

Meet Lee Strobel – Our 2024 Peninsula4Life Dinner Guest Speaker

Meet Lee Strobel

Author. Apologist. Evangelist.

Care Net Peninsula's 2024 Peninsula4Life Guest Speaker

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total.

After probing the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years, Lee became a Christian in 1981, inspiring his best-selling book, The Case for Christ. In 2017, Lee’s spiritual journey was depicted in an award-winning motion picture which was shown in theaters around the world.

Lee has been described in the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists.” He was educated at the University of Missouri and Yale Law School. He was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ highest honors for both investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International.

Lee currently serves as Founding Director of the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University.

Learn more about Lee: https://leestrobel.com/about

Learn More About the Peninsula4Life Dinner

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Local Physician, Libby Palumbo, DO Named Chairperson for Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner

Local physician Libby Palumbo will serve as chairperson at this year’s annual Peninsula4Life Benefit Dinner, taking place on October 17th at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Mom, Dad, and Baby Ezekiel

Check out this family session with Baby Ezekiel and his mom and dad at Newport News Park.

A Mom You Helped & Her Boys

Check out these sweet images of a mom you helped and her three sweet boys.

Michelle’s Story

Click to read about Michelle and how you helped her confidently step into motherhood for the first time.

July 22, 2024April 14, 2025

Stephanie and Charlotte

We wanted to brighten your day with some cuteness from one of our recent photo sessions with Stefanie and her little bundle of sunshine, Charlotte. Thank you for your support and prayer in providing Stefanie and Charlotte with the help and hope they needed.