ABOUT THE LIFE CHOICES CENTER

HISTORY:
The Life Choices Center has served the community since 1984. We currently have one location in downtown Milaca, MN.

MISSION STATEMENT:
The Rum River Life Choices Center is a Christ-centered ministry committed to upholding the sanctity of human life by reaching out with truth and love to persons with needs related to sexuality, pregnancy, parenting, and post-abortion trauma. We are committed to providing material needs, emotional and spiritual support, and to proclaim the Gospel in word and deed.

STATEMENT OF FAITH:
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy spirit is absolutely essential, and that the salvation is received through faith in Jesus Christ as savior and lord and not as a result of good works.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to perform good works.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE:
The pregnancy center is an outreach ministry of Jesus Christ through His church. Therefore, the pregnancy center, embodied in its volunteers, is committed to presenting the Gospel of our Lord to women with crisis pregnancies, both in word and in deed. Commensurate with this purpose, those who labor as pregnancy center board members, directors and volunteers are expected to know Christ as their Savior and Lord.

The pregnancy center is committed to providing clients with accurate and complete information about both prenatal development and abortion.

The pregnancy center is committed to integrity in dealing with clients, earning their trust and providing promised information and services. The pregnancy center denounces any form of deception in its corporate advertising or individual conversations with clients.

The pregnancy center is committed to assisting women to carry to term by providing emotional support and practical assistance. Through the provision of God's people and the community at large, women may face the future with hope, and plan constructively for themselves and their babies.

The pregnancy center does not discriminate in providing services because of race, creed, color, national origin, age or marital status of its clients.

The pregnancy center does not recommend, provide, or refer for abortions or abortifacients.

The pregnancy center offers assistance free of charge at all times.

The pregnancy center is committed to creating an awareness within the local community of the needs of pregnant women, and of the fact that abortion only compounds human need rather than resolving it.

The pregnancy center does not recommend, provide, or refer single women for contraceptives. (Married women seeking contraceptive information should be urged to seek counsel, along with their husbands, from their pastor or physician.)

The pregnancy center recognizes the validity of adoption as one alternative to abortion, but is not biased toward adoption when compared of other life-saving alternatives. Centers are independent of adoption agencies, relating to them in the same manner as to other helpful referral sources. Pregnancy centers receive no payment of any kind from these agencies, do not enter into contractual relationships with them, and do not share combined office space. Adoption agencies are not established under the auspices of centers. Pregnancy centers neither initiate nor facilitate independent adoptions, though they may refer for independent adoptions in states where it is legal.