On Feb. 14, the Bahamas GodParent Center celebrated its 10-year birthday and a decade of pro-life ministry in the Caribbean.
Rhonda and Jeffrey Darville started the organization in 2015, feeling called to do mission work within their own country after studying the Bible at Virginia’s Liberty University. As previously reported by Pregnancy Help News, Rhonda knows first-hand the pain that women suffer after abortion, having had two abortions herself and struggling with the grief and guilt that followed.
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Today, the GodParent Center offers a comprehensive range of services for women, men, and children in a biblical mission that affirms the dignity of every human life, born and unborn.
“We began as a center and increased to a three-fold ministry,” Darville told Pregnancy Help News via email. “Education, where we educate persons on pregnancy help and sexual risk avoidance [and] intervention, where we engage the next generation so they can understand choices before they make them. We go to schools and churches or wherever young people are, and we have an invitation.”
The third part of the GodParent Center is focused on redemption, which “is where we walk people through the traumas of a birthing and/or sexual addiction to hope and healing through the Word.”
Per its website, the ministry offers pregnancy tests and counseling, material resources like baby diapers and bottles and post-abortive support. Additionally, the GodParent Center provides abstinence training for youth, community connections for financial stability and a fatherhood program for men to embrace their calling to be dads.
“Our main challenges have been tied to funding, non-profit licensing, and [finding] a home base,” Darville explained regarding some of the low moments in the ministry’s development. “By the grace of God, He has turned a little into much and even though we have had to move, we see his hand in people still finding us and reaching out for help.”
She also said that social media has “been a godsend” since “most of our demographics spend lots of time there.” Darville added that the ministry has “faithful supporters who are an encouragement to us and our work.”
In a Feb. 14 Facebook post, the GodParent Center celebrated the milestone by sharing a newsletter recapping its endeavors with followers, saying they are “so blessed and thankful for ten years of life affirming work.”
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The post added a prayer intention “that God will multiply our work in the lives of those we have and will touch,” acknowledging that “many have walked side by side with us during this time and this [newsletter] is just a glimpse of those years.”
When asked what advice or encouragement she would offer to other pro-life advocates seeking to build a life-affirming pregnancy help center, Darville recommended they “seek the Lord” always and work “in His name.”
“Keep the word of God as central to your work. Try to engage [with] churches in your area. Build a strong core team. [And] pray, pray, pray.”
