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Get Involved - Standing Firm, Changing Lives
Before going further, know that no matter what you receive from PASS or how you support PASS, what we do is at the call of and glory for Jesus Christ.
Thank you for what God makes possible through you!
If you are a volunteer, underwriter, organization supporter, or individual donor - THANK YOU!
If you are a recipient of PASS services such as a client, family, church, hospital, school, civic group, or business, we are only able to serve you from the generosity of individuals and organizations who financially support PASS.
In short your contributions go toward:
- Ministering to women and men in crisis pregnancy situations
- Advocating for protection of innocent lives
- Teaching family integrity through schools, churches, home schooling, and civic groups
- Partnering and building up churches in pro-life and family integrity to minister, disciple, and share Christ
- Helping communities advance a culture of life, family, and sexual integrity
- Housing, healing, and edifying pregnant women in need of food, shelter, and life skills
- Healing women and men affected by post abortive choices, grief, and loss
- Loving women and men without judgment or condemnation during the most challenging time of their lives
- Changing culture to value life and live lives of integrity
Some Statistics
PASS averages 1,100 telephone calls per month asking for PASS services;
(70 per day, 8.5 per hour, about 1 every 7 minutes)
PASS averages 2,400 personal client (crisis) visit per year asking for PASS services (1.15 per hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week 52 weeks a year)
PASS teaches sexual / family integrity to 15,000-17,000 students and parents per year.
PASS provides on average nearly 300 ultrasounds per year at Tinley Park alone.
PASS shares Christ with 64% of new clients who visit PASS.
85% of women who come to PASS are:
Abortion Minded ("I want an abortion') or
Abortion Vulnerable ("I am desperate and thinking about abortion.")
Out of the 85% women visiting PASS who are abortion minded or abortion vulnerable visit PASS, 85% choose parenting or adoption after meeting with a PASS client advocate. (The remaining 15% either choose abortion or we are unaware of their choice.)
PASS can house up to 14 pregnant women in need of maternity care.
PASS averages 8.44 housing visits for maternity care per year.
PASS provided over 2,200 referrals for medical, social service, housing, education classes and WIC (women, infant, and children nutrition program).
PASS teaches parenting, life skills, early pregnancy, prenatal, and pre-birthing, classes to nearly 500 women and men per year.
PASS administers nearly 900 pregnancy tests per year.
83% of PASS clients are single; 17% are married
AGE STATISTICS
2% are below 15
34% are between 15 - 19
33% are between 20 - 24
15% are between 25 - 29
15% are over 30
PASS on average provides 350 volunteer ministry opportunities per year.
PASS ministries are highly relational, dealing with the most difficult issues that women, men, wives, husbands, and families living in a broken world must cope. Abortion is a matter of life and death. Sexual integrity impacts individuals, families, communities, and societies. Loving without condemnation and teaching truth in love is what PASS people to do.
Having compassion and heart to minister to a person in crisis pregnancy is your response to a call.
Having courage to teach sexual integrity to a world of promiscuity is your response to a call.
Having endurance to minister to women and men broken by past choices is your response to a call.
Having fortitude to care for those in need of housing is your response to a call.
And having the ability to financially support a ministry like PASS is your response to a call.
PASS is a 501(c)3 ministry.
Contributions are tax deductible and immediately receipted for your records
Thank you for your support.
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