Family Resource Center of Zion - July 2020 Newsletter

Family Resource Center of Zion

Summer2020

The Heartbeat of FRCZ #FRCZ2020WFL This year’s Walk looked a bit different. We gathered in our own neighborhoods and most of our publicity came through Facebook and our fundraising website, Runsignup.com. Many of our donations came in the old fashioned way, by mail or stopping by the center. The FRCZ family came together to support life! Thank you to each of you who have donated and walked. As of June 30 our total was $16,685.00. This is amazing with the last minute switch to a brand new way of doing things. Our budget need for the Walk this year is $25,000. With implementing the Ultrasound Program, we must ask a bit more of our family. We thank you in advance for making this happen. Support can be dropped off or sent to the center or at our website www.FRCZion.org. Help us save LIVES through LOVE!

Inside this issue In the News……………....2 Boutique Business.…...2 Baby Bottle Campaign.3 COVID & The Ultrasound Program…………………...3

Save the Date • 2020 Banquet October 1

In the News

Planned Parenthood’s sneak attacks

by Leah Hickman, from World Magazine Posted 5/25/20, 07:03 pm

Staff at a pro-life pregnancy center in Zion, Ill., found out from a Chicago Tribune report this month Planned Parenthood was opening a new abortion facility in the nearby Chicago suburb of Waukegan. Until then, the pro-lifers had no idea about plans for the new center just 10 minutes away.

“It’s very disappointing … that they put one of these facilities right next door,” said Doug Carlson, president of the board of the Family Resource Center in Zion.

The news blindsided others, too. “I think most of Waukegan found out by the newspaper on the day it was presented,” said the resource center’s director, Mary King.

Planned Parenthood clandestinely planned and built another abortion facility in Illinois less than a year ago. The state passed a law in spring 2019 removing of all protections for unborn children, making the state an abortion destination in the Midwest.

Planned Parenthood has capitalized on the change with a stealth expansion plan.

The abortion giant bought a former bank building in Waukegan through the Chicago Title Land Trust Company in 2019, according to county records. “No one would raise an eyebrow about them buying property,” said Eric Scheidler of the ProLife Action League. His team submitted an open records request to the city of Waukegan and the county tax assessor to get further details about the building. Officials requested an extension on fulfilling the request. Online county records also list a company called Winthrop Lake LLC that receives the tax bills. The records make no mention of Planned Parenthood. (Cont. pg 3)

Visit our website @ www.FRCZion.org ANNIVERSARY SWAG FRCZ is celebrating 10 years!! In the middle of some of the craziest and most pressing times we are moving forward with God’s work of saving lives.

This year’s WFL shirt was created as an anniversary shirt. Tshirts with this logo

are available with a minimum donation of $10 per t-shirt. If you are interested in other apparel with this logo, please contact Mary at the center.

Anniversary hats will be available for a minimum donation of $20 per hat.

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Boutique Business Many thanks to those who have come in while our regular boutique workers have needed to be “safer at home”.

We would not be ready for summer without you!

We have joined the Catholic Charities Diaper Depot. This along with your donations and our partnership with Twice as Nice, has secured our diaper supply for both weekly clients and material assistance families. Thank you!

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Boys & Girls SUMMER clothes sizes 12 months – 5T

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Consumables: Shampoo, lotion, diaper rash cream, etc.

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Larger sized storage bins with lids

(continued from pg 2 ) “That’s the pattern that Planned Parenthood has exhibited in Illinois when they have opened these places on the quiet,” Scheidler said. Planned Parenthood also used shell companies to build a megaclinic that opened last October in Fairview Heights, Ill., near the Missouri border. Scheidler has seen the organization use similar tactics with its facilities in the Illinois cities of Aurora and Flossmoor.

According to Planned Parenthood’s website, the facility will offer abortion services, including the abortion pill and surgical abortions up to 20 weeks of gestation. “In the middle of this pandemic, you now find that you’re having this unplanned pregnancy,” King said. “You now have this immediate response [at] your backdoor.”

The pandemic has provided a windfall for Planned Parenthood. Its affiliates received $80 million in federal coronavirus stimulus funds intended for small businesses. Planned Parenthood argues the local organizations fall within the qualifications for “small businesses” with 500 or fewer employees to receive the funds. But the Small Business Administration said the group’s member organizations must return the money because of their affiliation with the larger Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The affiliates could face civil or criminal penalties if the Small Business Administration determines they knowingly applied for the loans under false pretenses, the agency said in a letter.

“Taking millions of dollars designed to keep businesses from closing and at the same exact moment opening a new center… it’s just obnoxious,” Scheidler said.

In response, some U.S. lawmakers are working on legislation to block further funds from going to Planned Parenthood. U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., is sponsoring a bill that would block abortion businesses from receiving coronavirus loans.

On Friday, about 400 pro-lifers wearing masks and standing apart gathered at the Waukegan Planned Parenthood to protest the new abortion facility.

Scheidler, who attended, said the majority of the protesters came from the greater Waukegan area: “Response from passersby was overwhelmingly positive, with countless thumbs up” and horn honks.

But Carlson said he and his staff at the Family Resource Center of Zion would not participate. “We want people who are abortion-minded to feel comfortable to come to us,” he said. They will focus on material assistance rather than lobbying.

Before the Planned Parenthood opened, the Family Resource Center had already begun the process of adding an ultrasound program to its other free services. “We’re hoping with this ultrasound program that we’ll be able to intervene before they get into the [Planned Parenthood] doors,” King said. News of the new Planned Parenthood may have taken local pro-lifers by surprise, but “God was not surprised by this,” King said.

What is it?

The baby bottle campaign is a fun and easy way to involve people of all ages in supporting the ministry of FRCZ by filling a baby bottle with coins checks or currency.

How it works:

1. Choose a time to host the Baby Bottle Campaign. Call (847) 746-8370 to schedule your campaign.

2. Share the campaign with your congregation or group. FRCZ will provide you with bulletin announcements, bulletin inserts, baby bottles, and posters.

3. Distribute bottles to your people on date. Collect with coins, checks) 2-4 distribution.

your chosen bottles (filled currency, or weeks after

Contact the center to arrange pick up or drop off. Staff will count and report back with the amount of money raised

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COVID-19 & the Ultrasound Program Please pray for our nation and our world Through all of the COVID -19 restrictions and quarantine we have been using our time wisely. We remained open with limited services. Material assistance and pregnancy tests were available throughout. After stage 1, we began to welcome our current clients back with virtual classes. Some of our volunteers are coming in to the center and others are reaching out from home. The first week of June, clients were allowed to come in and shop the boutique; one at a time, with gloves and a mask. We look forward to the day we can be together again on a regular basis.

Moving forward with the Ultrasound Program, we joined NIFLA to help us with the legal aspects of converting. Much work has been done around the center, creating a nurse’s office and preparing the space for the ultrasound clients. Volunteers painted, laid flooring, changed lights and electrical. The money is in the bank for the machine (thank you to the anonymous donor!). Advocates have been completing the extra training needed to meet with clients. The next steps are hiring the Nurse Manager, bringing on volunteer Ultrasound Technicians (RN) and training. I you are interested or know of someone interested in coming on as our Nurse Manager or as an Ultrasound Technician, please reach out to Mary at the center.

Projects we still need help with are: 1) Refinishing the wood table, 2) recovering the chairs for the table, 3) moving & mounting the TV (it is currently mounted in the board room). Thank you all for being the Heartbeat of FRCZ!

Family Resource Center of Zion (FRCZ) FRCZ is a faith based not-for-profit organization that provides educational services and resources to empower women and men to make healthy, informed choices regarding pregnancy and parenting. Our vision Is to come alongside women and men and show them support before, during and beyond a moment of crisis so they can make healthy decisions for their family.

Services offered: Pregnancy Tests ●Post Abortion/ Sexual Trauma Support●Adoption Referral ●Community Services Referrals●Material Supplies●Parenting Support

Family Resource Center of Zion 3452 Sheridan Road 5E Zion, IL 60099 Phone: 847-731-8370 E-mail: zioncenter@yahoo.com www.FRCZion.org