Holiday Appeal

2025 Holiday Appeal. Shine the Light.

Don’t let time get away. Make your year-end giving count for life by giving to our Holiday Appeal.

Young boy holding a candle in the darkness

Let there be light.

Light was God’s very first command, His first act of creation.

He called light good, and He separated light from darkness.

Our world is threatened by darkness that grows ever more brazen. At its root is denial of the Creator and the sacred identity of the creation He saved for last: human life made in His image.

About 10 years ago, scientists found a way to observe the precise moment a sperm cell meets an egg cell, using a technique that creates a tiny flash of fluorescence at the instant of contact—the first moment of a unique life, visualized as light in the darkness.

At Care Net, our practical work takes the form of ultrasound technology, mentoring and material support. But our ministry is to shine the light of love and truth into darkness—into the lies told to women and men about the reality of the life they created together.

Below, read one woman’s struggle to find the light after abortion.

As you consider your gifts at year’s end, please help us shine light into the darkness. Please help us continue our ministry to save babies from abortion and teach their moms and dads the wisdom of good parenting.

Struggling to Find the Light

A couple years ago, a woman came to Care Net to begin facing and recovering from the damage abortion had done to her life. She had carried the burden of abortion, silent and alone, for forty years.

She had become pregnant in her late teens, and the only guidance she received was, “The decision is up to you.” Overwhelmed and scared, she took what the abortion industry promised was a quick, easy and harmless fix: she had an abortion. Over the next few years, under a weight she couldn’t identify, she chose abortion again, and then again and finally again. In those lost years, she turned to drugs and alcohol to drown the pain.

She allowed us to share her story because, she said, “I want to let people know abortion screws you up in the head. The people at Planned Parenthood don’t tell you that. ‘It’s not a baby,’ they say. I wouldn’t have had abortions if I had known, but they don’t tell you. The emotional trauma is real but they don’t tell you.

“I want to spare women from years of depression and ‘what-ifs.’ God has forgiven me, but it’s hard to forgive yourself. I want to save babies and women’s sanity.”