Heartbeat of Miami News & Updates
Heartbeat of Miami Development Meeting
Monday, November 13th 7-9pm
At the Hialeah Clinic (5465 NW 36th Street, Miami) Map
If you want to help get these clinics supported, leased, refurbished and equipped, feel free to join us. For more information contact Christina or Jenette.
Rev. John and Kristen Ensor in Miami
John and Kristen have decided to rent an apartment and live in Miami this January through May/June in hopes of providing the leadership and training needed to open clinics in Hialeah and North Miami by Mother's Day of 2007.
If you would like to schedule Rev. Ensor in your church please write to him. He is eager to speak in as many churches as possible starting in January.
Would you like to have Jeanne come and share her amazing story in your church or small group? Contact the Heartbeat of Miami office to schedule her visit.
Baby Bottle Campaign/ Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, January 21st.
The Baby Bottle Campaign is one way for all the folks in your church to learn about and help the Heartbeat of Miami project.
HOM will deliver these baby bottles to your church and pick them up a month later. Volunteers count the change and report the total back to your church. This campaign is something kids from 5-95 love to do; and families, youth groups, small groups and more have used a simple baby bottle to collect change and talk about cherishing and defending innocent life and helping women and couples unprepared for pregnancy.
 Boxes of Baby Bottles have arrived at our new office. Our volunteers will be labeling and bagging them to go out to Miami area churches for use in January and February. If you are willing to sponsor this event in your church, contact us. We will provide you with bulletin inserts on the Heartbeat of Miami, a copy of Answering the Call for your Pastor and of course, baby bottles.
Archbishop of Miami encourages Catholic support for the Heartbeat of Miami project
Archbishop Favorlora has written to the parishes in and around Hialeah to encourage their involvement and support of Heartbeat of Miami's first initiative in Hialeah. To read the letter click here.
"I write to you today to encourage your support of the "Heartbeat of Miami" project, an ecumenical effort to open an ultra-sound equipped pregnancy center in Hialeah."
Hialeah was chosen as our first initiative because it currently has 7 abortion facilities operating there. This past summer, one of them was closed after a baby was born alive there and reportedly placed into a bio hazard bag and left to suffocate. This incident merely highlighted the need to open a fully supported, ultrasound-equipped, pregnancy help clinic there as soon as possible.
Concerning this Archbishop Favorlora writes, "The Archdiocesean Respect Life Office believes that we must join this effort to address this escalating attack on human life." Joan Crown of the Respect Life Office is a participating member of the Hialeah Development Committee. She, along with Rev. John Ensor, have met with Father Jordi Rivero (St Raymond's) to discuss ways to partner and participate in the Heartbeat of Miami initiative. To help, please contact Joan Crown at (305) 653-2966 or email her at jmcrown@bellsouth.net.
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Rev. John Ensor, when he visited my church, Palm Vista Community in Miami Lakes. He shared with us the vision of "Heartbeat of Miami" and the urgent need to establish pregnancy help clinics in our city.
Jeanne's amazing story of God's great work reveals the heart of the matter before us. She was lost, confused, under pressure from a man she thought she loved, was terribly ambivalent, but not sure why and not strong enough to follow what her heart was telling her at the time. And this from a woman and mother who were running an abortion business!
