Getting it done at the Salem PRC

We are just amazed by what's happened in the last month at the Salem Pregnancy Resource Center. Many of you have busted out your hammers and work jeans to help remodel the building as it's made into a medical center.

Check out the following video of Tony Frazier at the PRC last Friday and the blog below from Katie Cardwell. Loving it!

Tony at the Salem PRC #2 from Foothills Church on Vimeo.

Kim Copple’s message of Redemption a few Sundays ago touched my heart. The stories shared of redeemed lives moved me, and from what I saw I wasn’t the only one! As you may know, the Salem Pregnancy Resource Center (where Kim works) was in need of some serious renovating. Their ultimate goal is to get status as a medical facility. They need that status in order to qualify for a grant from Focus on the Family that will help them purchase an ultrasound machine.

Now, the renovation is no light task, and there was a call for financial and physical support. Being a poor college student myself I didn’t have much to give financially, so I decided to offer up my time and an extra pair of hands to help in any way I could. I showed up Saturday morning on January 30, coffee cup in hand, not sure what to expect. I knew I wasn’t skilled in contracting, and I had no knowledge of power tools (other than the potential for injury to myself, of course), and altogether I feared I would be useless. Those fears were almost immediately eliminated as Tony Frazier put me to work. Even without “tool skills” I was able to take part in something beautiful.

To see the body of Christ at work in response to a need is beautiful. People of all ages and walks of life gave up their time on a Saturday morning (and for others, time during their weeks) to help the Salem Pregnancy Resource Center without expecting anything in return. All the work being done financially and physically at PRC is a prime example of God’s people living with open hands and open hearts.

I pray that the work being done at PRC will lead to people’s lives being touched by God and to lives being saved in more than one way. There is a clear need in this broken world for compassion, honesty, integrity, kindness and helpfulness — and to have the church jump in and take up these callings, I believe, will bring hope and healing to the broken world. This is “A Whole Church for the Broken World” in action my friends, and it is invigorating to see the body of Christ move to immediate action to make this world better and to show people the love of God.

Really, it’s difficult to express the joy I feel when I speak about the community service activities I have access to at Foothills.  I find my friends, acquaintances and random strangers I chat with startled by the fact that a church is doing all of that. I feel blessed to be a part of a church so willing to jump in and help the community and other communities as well! The work being done at the Pregnancy Resource Center is a glorious reflection of God’s love and compassion, and the chance to be a part of it is positively thrilling! I’m personally excited to see what more there is to be done through our church.
— Katie Cardwell