S2 Ep1155: Embracing Grace in the Pro-Life Movement: Amy Ford

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Amy Ford is the Founder and President of Embrace Grace, a nonprofit that equips churches to love and encourage women with unexpected pregnancies by providing spiritual, emotional, and practical support. Over 1,100 groups are active in churches around the world who utilize the Embrace Grace curriculum and host support groups to help those impacted by unplanned pregnancies in their community. She has authored several books including, Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement and frequently speaks nationally on how the church can change the world with love. Amy has been married over 25 years with 4 kids plus a daughter in law and lives in the Dallas area.

In this conversation, Amy talks about some of the social factors that surrounding unplanned pregnancies and what kinds of care and love the church can offer to single moms as an alternative to abortion.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the room I guess today is Amy Ford
0:04.4	who is the founder and president of Embrace Grace a nonprofit that equips churches to love and
0:09.6	encourage women with unexpected pregnancies by providing
0:13.2	spiritual emotional and practical support.
0:15.4	The Embrace Grace has over 1100 groups that are active in churches around the world
0:19.6	to utilize the Embrace Grace curriculum. She's the author of several books
0:25.0	including Help Her Be Brave, Discover Your Place in the Pro Life Movement.
0:30.3	Amy frequently speaks nationally at churches and conferences on how the church can
0:35.1	change the world with love.
0:37.7	I absolutely love this conversation.
0:40.0	I learned so much and I just love love, love Amy's what I would call a very holistic approach to the
0:46.4	pro-life movement. I think after you listen to this conversation you'll see exactly what I mean by that.
0:50.5	So please welcome to the show for the first time the one and only
0:53.2	Amy Ford. All right, hello Amy. How are you doing this morning? This afternoon in Texas,
1:08.2	Salice? Yes, it's good to see your face and talk to you. I'm doing good. So you're I told you offline that your
1:16.3	name came up because I have a you know a patron community that support the
1:20.6	podcast and I often go to it was periodically I'll go to them and say hey
1:24.8	there's some guests you want me to have on the podcast that you know that I can
1:28.8	consider and I did that a couple weeks ago or probably a couple months ago and your name came up with multiple people so I was like all right let's have
1:36.2	maybe one so that's it I looked in your ministry I'm like this seems like an awesome ministry and what I love
1:41.7	about from what I've seen is it's it seems to
1:45.1	be intrinsically tied to your own personal story. Why don't we begin there? Tell us
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