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December 11, 2024April 14, 2025

Baby S. Turns One!

Baby S. Turns ONE!

It has been a joy to celebrate each milestone with Baby S. and his mom, celebrating his life while he was still in his momma’s womb. This week, we got to celebrate his upcoming FIRST birthday and Christmas!

Photos By: Amadna Franks, Marketing Director

Amanda Franks, Marketing Director

Tuesday, December 11, 2024

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

A common question that pregnancy centers often face—whether from supporters or critics of the pro-life movement—is how we continue to support a woman after she chooses to keep her child. It’s a valid question, especially for faith-based providers who are called to love and serve others in tangible ways.

The Twins Are ONE!

These sweet girls recently celebrated their FIRST birthday, and we can’t help but think about how sweet it has been to watch them grow this last year because of YOU and the support you provide our clinic.

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024

Why Early Medical Services Are Critical For Pregnant Women

WHY EARLY MEDICAL SERVICES ARE CRITICAL FOR PREGNANT WOMEN

When a woman is facing an unplanned pregnancy and needs to talk through her options, she typically has three choices: the abortion pill online, an abortion clinic, or Care Net Peninsula’s free medical clinic —Alcove Health.

At Alcove Health we provide women with medical support and also spiritual, emotional, and holistic care —something that can be lacking in medical facilities due to time constraints.

As the Medical Director for Alcove Health, I oversee the medical aspects of the clinic and review each ultrasound. I’m not personally in the room with each patient, but I serve alongside Alcove’s team of licensed Registered Nurses who have received specialized sonography and abortion education training.

On top of their medical skills and knowledge, this team of Nurses is passionate about their work and genuinely wants to help each woman they meet, even when that means going above and beyond to care for their clients.

Our Registered Nurses:

Kinta, RN, BSN

Nurse Manager

Meg, RN, BSN

Nurse

Denise, RN, BSN

Nurse

Patty, RN

Nurse

Karla, RN, BSN

Nurse

We provide medically accurate information detailing the fetal development of their baby. We also clarify the different types of abortion and what occurs in each procedure. We never encourage abortion, but we do explain the reality and risks of these procedures so women can make an informed decision. Our prayer is for each client to choose life for her baby.

The most critical component of our medical consultation is the ultrasound. The world around us tells women that an ultrasound isn’t essential —that it is easier not knowing details, and that it’s too invasive. But the truth is, ultrasounds can not only be life-saving for the baby, but life-changing for the moms by providing necessary medical information they need before taking their next step. Simply put, an ultrasound provides answers.

With each ultrasound, our nurses look for the following three things that are vital to a woman’s decision:

1. Location of the Pregnancy

This year alone, I have reviewed the scans of three women experiencing an ectopic pregnancy outside the uterus. If left undetected, they can rupture, leading to internal bleeding and even death. Because of early medical intervention, these clients received the treatment they needed in time.

2. Fetal Heart Rate

It is essential to know if the pregnancy is viable, regardless of whether a client is planning on carrying the baby to term or planning to have an abortion.

3. Gestational Age

Pregnant women can get a rough idea of how far along they are by calculating the time from the first day of their menstrual period (LMP). However, our nurses obtain measurements from the ultrasounds for a more accurate determination.

For women considering abortion, this determines what options for termination are available and how our nurses consult with her. It also reveals the humanity of the baby developing in her womb.

Too often, our nurses hear clients say things like, “Why didn’t anyone tell me it would look like a baby?”, “There is already a heartbeat?”, or “It’s moving!”. The ultrasound is a window into the womb for our clients, revealing life forming right in front of their eyes and debunking the narrative that the baby is not yet a person.

I stand firmly behind Care Net Peninsula and the work we do to provide help and hope to women facing unplanned pregnancies. I know across the organization, this is a team of passionate Christ followers ready to support life, and I especially know that my team of nurses is prepared to meet every obstacle thrown their way to be able to minister and help the woman sitting in their ultrasound room.

When you support Care Net Peninsula, you are supporting the only local pregnancy center providing life-affirming medical services.

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Dr. Jerrid Neeley, D.O., Medical Director

Friday, November 15, 2024

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

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

Support Through Pregnancy and Beyond

The Twins Are ONE!

Choosing Life: A Story of Hope and Courage

Click to read our latest ministry update from our clinic.

A Beautiful Celebration of Family

Isn’t this little family the cutest? Thank you for the help and hope you provide for our moms, babies, and families!

July 2, 2024April 14, 2025

Twice As Sweet: Welcoming These Beautiful Newborn Twins

Twice as Sweet:

Welcoming These Beautiful Newborn Twins

There is something incredibly special about newborn photo sessions—the tiny details, the soft snuggles, the quiet moments. But recently all of that was doubled when we captured these moments for a set of twin girls you helped this past year.