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Hope Women'sCenters
3Locations in Boward County
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Davie 954.581.6991
Ft. Lauderdale 954.568.2616
North Lauderdale 954.726.7464

Business Office Mailing Address:
Hope Women's Centers
943 SW 71 Avenue
North Lauderdale, FL 33068
Phone 954.724.0005
Fax 954.724.0007

e-mail: nancyemcdonald@bellsouth.net

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CHURCH SUPPORT
IT GOES BOTH WAYS

We want to GIVE SUPPORT TO the local church and help resource pastors and their congregations with tools that promote a biblical, pro-life message. The pro-life NEWS and NEWSLETTERS page also contains information that churches may find helpful.

We are also blessed to RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM many of the churches in our county. The following churches are not only praying for us, they are contributing financially. If your church is not listed and you would like to talk to someone about what it means to be a "supporting church" call our Director of Development, Reverend Jim McGarvey at our Business Office 954.785.8180

Anglican Church of the Word Calvary Chapel Coral Spings

Calvary Chapel Freewill Baptist Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale

Christ Church PCA Christ Community Church in Pompano

Christ Covenant Church Christ the Rock Community Church

Church by the Glades Church in the Glades

Community Christian Cooper City Church of God

Faith Presbyterian Church in Pembroke Pines Faith Church in Tamarac

Faith Christian Church Ft. Lauderdale First Baptist Church of Deerfield

First Baptist Church Ft. Lauderdale First Baptist Church of Oakland Park

First Baptist Church at Weston First Baptist Church Pompano Beach

First Church Coral Springs First Church West

FtL New Testament Church of God Florida Bible Church

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Community Bible Church of Dania Beach

Hollywood Faith Christian Church Jesus Christ Supernatural Church

Lauderdale Community Church New Dawn Community Church

New Hope Community Church New Life Baptist Church

New Testament Baptist Church North Creek Presbyterian Church

Parkridge Baptist Church Parkway Christian Church

Plantation Community Church Plantation United Methodist Church

Atlantic Baptist Church Rio Vista Community Church

Riverside Christian Fellowship Sawgrass Community Church

Bethel Worship Center Sheridan Hills Baptist Church

Solera Community Church St. Ambrose Episcopal Church

St. Andrews Presbyterian St. Paul Lutheran at Weston

Temple Aron Ha’Kodesh Congregation Beth T’Filah

West Pines Community Church Grace Baptist Church

First Christian Church of Wilton Manors First Baptist Church of Sunrise

Hollywood Bible Chapel Olive Tree Congregation

HISTORY OF HOPE

We have been helping women in unplanned pregnancies for more than twenty years.
Here are a few highlights of Hope's History:

August 1985 – a group of concerned Broward County leaders, including Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. O. S. Hawkins, and Dr. Frank Wright, meets to discuss the possibilities of opening a faith-based crisis pregnancy care center in Ft. Lauderdale.

February 1987 – A Woman’s Pregnancy Center opens in a small storefront office on East Commercial Boulevard in Ft. Lauderdale.

January 1990 – a group of Hollywood pastors, including Dr. Bill Billingsley, Rev. Bud McCord, and Dr. Paul B. Fowler, sees a need for a crisis pregnancy care center in south Broward County; a steering committee is formed.

June 1991 – The Crisis Pregnancy Center of Davie opens a small storefront office on Davie Road, near the central campus of Broward Community College.

1995 – after working together to provide crisis pregnancy care services in Broward, the two organizations merge to provide a stronger presence under a united front and choose “Hope Pregnancy Centers, Inc.” as the name of the new, expanded ministry.

1997 – Hope opens a center in Miramar to better serve the needs of those in pregnancy-related crises in southwestern Broward County.

1999 – the crisis pregnancy care center portion of the Davie center is moved to a more highly visible location on University Drive in order to attract more clients, becoming the 4^th location operating in Broward County under Hope’s auspices; the Davie Road location becomes the home of the Administrative Offices, the Hope For Tomorrow Abstinence Offices, and the Hope Restored post-abortion program.

2001 – Hope opens its 5^th location in Broward County in Pompano Beach

2003 – Hope’s 6^th location opens in August in North Lauderdale, extending services to the highly populated northwest Broward cities of Coral Springs, Margate, Tamarac, and North Lauderdale.

2005 – Hope adds Mobile Ministry in August, Ultrasound Ministry in September, and hosts the first Father/Daughter Purity Ball in November.

2006 – In cooperation with Focus on the Family's Option Ultrasound Project©, Hope receives two more ultrasound machines (for the Miramar and Davie Centers), a grant for training our nurses and sonographers, and a commitment for machines for our North Lauderdale and Pompano Centes when we have adequate staff trained to use them.

In response to suggestions from the Option Ultrasound Site Training Team, Hope's Board of Directors votes to add 5 medical staff positions, to explore the possibility of filing a dba '
Women's Centers' in order to attract more abortion-minded and abortion-vulnerable clients, and refurbishing certain centers to reflect a more professional, up-to-date image.

2007 - Another Option Ultrasound Project© grant provides an ultrasound machine for our North Lauderdale Center, relocated to Riverside Square at Kimberly Boulevard and Rock Island Road. We mourn the passing of Dr. D. James Kennedy, one of the founding pastors of our ministry.

2008 - Focus on the Family'l Option Ultrasound Project© awards the fifth grant and places an ultrasound machine in our Pompano Beach Center, making the medical conversion complete in all centers. The October Walk For Life falls $30K short of the budget goal, the nation faces economic meltdown, and Hope's Board of Directors makes difficult decisions to close two centers and lay off 8 of the 12 paid staff members.