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Ways you can help:
Before you make a decision, please spend some time asking God if he wants you
to invest some of your financial resources with us for His Kingdom. You may
not receive a financial return on your investment, but something much better
may occur: the eternal reward of saved lives and souls!
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One-time donations
If God is leading you to support LifeSavers Ministries,
your one-time financial investment can be effective in saving many lives and
touching many hearts for His glory.
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A cold drink will help someone
get through a long, hot day. We have even seen cases where God used a
drink of water to save a baby's life! Your $25 donation will
help us to provide refreshments to
clients and volunteers. Remember, Jesus promised that even a cup of cold
water given in His name would not go unrewarded (Mark 9:41).
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We offer packets of information to women
entering the local abortion chamber.
The packets include literature on the risks of abortion, fetal development, a gospel presentation,
and information on how we can help. Approximately $30 covers the cost of the
pamphlets we usually provide in a month (although we improvise with less expensive--and, sadly,
less effective--pamphlets when funds are low).
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We provide
Baby gifts
to women who have chosen life for their babies. Each gift
includes a "Hope for the Future" Bible
with scriptural resources to help women experiencing difficult
pregnancies, along with baby clothes and other items to be used for the
baby. It costs us approximately $50 per month to provide these
gifts.
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We offer post-abortion gifts to
women leaving after abortions. These gifts include perfume or other small
hygiene items along with a Gospel tract and information about seeking
forgiveness and healing after abortion. We spend about $75 per month on post-abortion gifts.
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| The expenses for our
Bakersfield
LifeHouse
pregnancy
help center total about $100 per day (including the lease payment, utility
expenses, etc.)
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We need various banners to help people find our
LifeHouse pregnancy help centers in
Taft and Bakersfield, and to display various pro-life messages. Each banner costs us
approximately $250. If more people see our banners, more women will know about
our services, more of them will let us help them, and more babies will be saved!
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| We need new client tracking software to help
us keep in touch better with women who have decided not to abort their babies.
This will cost us approximately
$1000, but we know that this will help us not only to better serve women's needs, but to
also save more babies' lives.
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Our phone book ad results
in many calls from abortion-minded women, giving us the opportunity to share
the truth of the Gospel of Life. One phone book ad costs us approximately
$2500 annually. Due to lack of funds, we are unable to advertise in all of the
various books being published in the areas we serve.
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No gift is too small (or too large)!
Specify the amount of your one-time donation in whole dollars by typing the corresponding number
under "Qty" on the checkout form which will appear after you click on the "other" button at left.
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Monthly donations
We greatly appreciate our monthly donors, because their support
keeps LifeSavers Ministries going all year long. We have new expenses
every month, so the consistency of regular donors enables us to cover these
ongoing expenses. Before you decide what to give, please ask God if He
wants you to become a monthly supporter of LifeSavers Ministries.
The suggested donation amounts below reflect some of
the ongoing expenses we face every month. Sadly, when funds are low, we
reluctantly find it necessary to cut back on some items such as literature and gifts.
NOTE: At this time, your monthly gifts are NOT
automatically repeated by this system. However, if you provide contact
information, we can send you a monthly donation reminder if you wish.
If you wish for us to enter a new donation for you every month, please provide
us your card information by snail mail or call us at 661-323-2229. (For
your own protection, we do not recommend sending your card information by
an unencrypted e-mail.)
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A cold drink will help someone
get through a long, hot day. We have even seen cases where God used a
drink of water to save a baby's life! Your $25 donation will
help us to provide refreshments to
clients and volunteers. Remember, Jesus promised that even a cup of cold
water given in His name would not go unrewarded (Mark 9:41).
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We offer packets of information to women
entering the local abortion chamber.
The packets include literature on the risks of abortion, fetal development, a gospel presentation,
and information on how we can help. Approximately $30 covers the cost of the
pamphlets we usually provide in a month (although we improvise with less expensive--and, sadly,
less effective--pamphlets when funds are low).
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We provide
Baby gifts
to women who have chosen life for their babies. Each gift
includes a "Hope for the Future" Bible
with scriptural resources to help women experiencing difficult
pregnancies, along with baby clothes and other items to be used for the
baby. It costs us approximately $50 per month to provide these
gifts.
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We offer post-abortion gifts to
women leaving after abortions. These gifts include perfume or other small
hygiene items along with a Gospel tract and information about seeking
forgiveness and healing after abortion. We spend about $75 per month on post-abortion gifts.
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| The expenses for our
Bakersfield
LifeHouse
pregnancy
help center total about $100 per day (including the lease payment, utility
expenses, etc.)
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| Our phone book ad costs about $250 per month.
But this one ad results in many calls from abortion-minded women who often
decide not to abort their babies after talking to us.
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Communication is a key
to our ministries. Obviously,
if God is going to use us to reach people's hearts, we have to be able to
communicate with them. We spend about $500 per month on communication
(including phone lines for our various locations, Web sites, etc.)
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No gift is too small (or too large)!
Specify the amount of your one-time donation in whole dollars by typing the corresponding number
under "Qty" on the checkout form which will appear after you click on the "other" button at left.
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Our next
40 Days for Life
campaign begins on February 17, 2010! If you
want to help ensure that this campaign is as successful as possible,
we need your help now, before the first day of the campaign! Without financial assistance from people like you, our local
campaign will fall far short of its potential. We need to purchase many
items before the campaign begins, so early financial support will help
us hit the ground running!
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You can sponsor a day of 40 Days for Life for
only $100! Day sponsors will be listed on our 40 Days for Life website
and at the vigil. The finances provided by day sponsors will be used to purchase literature,
signs, and other resources for our local campaign.
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40 Days for Life yard signs are a key component of the
campaign, spreading the good news about God's plan for babies in the womb throughout the community.
After working hard to find the best possible price on signs, we now can
purchase 150 high-quality corrugated plastic signs and stakes for
approximately $500! If we have more signs available
and are able to provide them for free as part of the community outreach program and at the prayer
vigil, the effectiveness of this campaign will be multiplied exponentially.
For best results, we need to purchase all of these signs by February 1, 2010.
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We have tried to use a standard big-screen TV to display
life-saving videos to women entering the abortion chamber, but these screens
are not bright enough to be seen during the daytime. After researching various
options, we have
found a company which sells large
sunlight-viewable video screens, which are
designed to be viewed in the
daytime. But one of these screens would probably cost us up to $5000. We
hope to have a screen in place by February 17, 2010, the beginning of the next
40 Days for Life.
The company is willing to send us a demo screen to try it out at no obligation, in addition to giving
us a non-profit organization discount, but we first want to ensure that funds
are available to pay for the screen. After 40 Days for Life ends, the screen would likely
continue to be used by LifeSavers Ministries to save babies and mothers from the horrors of abortion.
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No gift is too small (or too large)!
Specify the amount of your one-time donation in whole dollars by typing the corresponding number
under "Qty" on the checkout form which will appear after you click on the "other" button at left.
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If you are interested in sending a check to support LifeSavers Ministries financially, please
send us a message
with your name and mailing address, and we will mail you information and a
return envelope. (Please be sure to include the words "send envelope" in your message.) - Or, you can just mail your donation directly to us at:
LifeSavers Ministries
P.O. Box 40972
Bakersfield, CA 93384-0972
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