Heartbeat of Miami: Making Lists
by Rev. John Ensor
 Happy New Year, dear friend! May God richly bless you. I am thrilled to enter the new year with the clarity of purpose that is the Heartbeat of Miami. Certainly it will require great sacrifice and faithfulness to open ultrasound equipped, pregnancy help clinics in Miami this year. The human trafficking that is ongoing in Miami's 37 abortion facilities will not yield to verbal condemnation. But they will yield to prayer-soaked strategic planning, faithful labor, sacrificial giving and the power of neighborly love. Resolve with me then, to approach the Heartbeat of Miami as a calling, one of the glorious works that God purposed long ago for 2007 and plans to accomplish through us. As Scripture says, "we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).
We aim to open our first pregnancy help clinic in Hialeah around Mother's Day, and a second one in North Miami very soon after. Our Strategic Plan calls for a third clinic to open in Little Havana in 2008. But before I list out what we need to do, and enlist your help, let me give you a glimpse of what lies at the end of our labor. Take a look at these names and birthdays.
Bryce 1/1 Caleb Michael 1/8 Onesty 1/9 Ramaya 1/12 Jada 1/17 Naeemah Laksha 1/17 Lailani 1/19 Ella 2/2 Charlie 2/6 Cairon 2/7 Amani 2/9 Jakhyia 2/13 Gilberto 2/14 Donald 2/23 Abigail 2/27 Kyle Scott 3/5 Gene 3/8 Dorian 3/13 Chase James 3/14 Malaika 3/15 Phyllis 3/24 Christian Anthony 3/29 Daylen3/30 Danielson Joseph 4/1 Jasiah 4/5 Jalene 4/6 Aniaya 4/10 Emma 4/13 Jackson Edmund 4/17 Emma Trinity 4/21 Isabelle 5/1 Jamel 5/6 Jaelyn 5/8 Brian 5/11 Arianna 5/17 Meghan 5/20 Jesus 5/23 Jaineliz 5/30 Noah 5/31 Christian 6/2 Marcus 6/3 Tacoamas 6/6 Daniel 6/12 Carlos 6/14 Giovani 6/16 Jeremiah 6/20 Dominic 6/24 Elias 6/29 Cee Jay 7/1 Zaiden 7/2 Ayden 7/8 Caden Asher 7/13 Soleil 7/18 Sara Jane 7/30 Emmauel 8/2 Dylan 8/3 Ali 8/16 Ojani 8/21 Alana 8/26 Briana 8/29 Ileya 9/1 Atreal 9/5 DeMari 9/7 Kheilani Miracle 9/8 Oprah Christine 9/21 Jarrell 9/26 Jason Joseph 10/2 Sadia Alexandra 10/3 Hope 10/3 Willam 10/11 Evan 10/12 Haley 10/23
This is part of nearly 300 Boston-area newborns. Each of these babies will experience their first birthday in 2007 because the Christian community in the area provided life-saving help to their mothers in their most desperate hour. Local abortionists were ready, for a price, to solve their problems by killing their babies. But Christians, at their own personal cost, intervened. Marked by an infectious faith that says, "God will provide" they rescued these innocents, by helping their frightened mothers and fathers. Look carefully and you will see that one mother even named her baby, "Miracle."
At the end of all the work required to set up new pregnancy help clinics, (recruit help, organize work teams, prepare a facility, train staff and volunteers, establish a board, raise the resources, launch a marketing plan, etc.) there is a long list of names of precious babies to be saved from Miami. Our work will produce that list around this time in 2008.
Over the next 5 months we need to:
1. Find the right location in Hialeah and prepare the facilities. There are 7 abortion facilities in Hialeah. We need help to identify available medical office space and help in selecting the most strategic site. We will need carpenters, tile guys, electricians, painters, decorators, materials and furniture suppliers. Click here to offer your help.
2. Create the Heartbeat of Miami (HOM) Board of Directors, train an Executive Director, set up an operations office, and get policies and procedures in place. The governance and stewardship of Heartbeat of Miami will now become a local responsibility. We will build and train the Board for effective strategic planning and governance, prepare staff and volunteers to effectively serve women and couples struggling with an unexpected pregnancy. All staff will be hired from our volunteer pool. Click here for our Volunteer Application.
3. Form a medical services committee to prepare HOM clinics to provide pregnancy testing and ultrasound services. We need a doctor to serve as the HOM Medical Director, and nurse managers and/or ultrasound technicians to provide these services. We need to apply to Focus on the Family's "Option Ultrasound" program for machines. Contact us if you are a medical professional and willing to help.
4. Enlist the active support and participation of churches in and around Miami to support and staff these pregnancy help clinics, especially those in Hialeah/Miami Lakes region and throughout North Miami. Check out my speaking schedule and contact me about speaking at your church.
5. Sign up 300 monthly donors for each HOM pregnancy help clinic. These monthly "Life Partners" are essential in sustaining the clinics, month in and month out, once they open. Without such personal sacrifice our labor will be in vain. We are asking you to sacrifice $1 a day ($30 per month) to bring the HOM vision into reality. Please make this sacrifice with me! Sign-up to be a Life Partner today.
6. Pay for two $20,000 Yellow Page ads to be placed on PAGE ONE of the Miami North and South Yellow Pages. The books come out in May; just around Mother's Day, when we open. The hotline calls will come soon after. Then the Great and Glorious work of HOM begins; providing life-saving, life-changing help to women and couples in pregnancy distress. Contact me or donate online.
Working together and giving sacrificially, what a story we shall have to tell by the end of 2007! Answering the Call with you,
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