Overview

Jose Galvez, Lima, Peru

One project initiative of World Reach is the La Roca Prenatal Center. The Center first opened its doors in November 2007 on the campus of La Roca Christian Church located near Lima, Peru in a suburb called Jose Galvez.  Trained volunteer staff members counsel, disciple and encourage pregnant teenage girls and women in choosing life for their unborn children. The rate of abortion in Peru is extremely high, and World Reach uses La Roca Prenatal Center as a vessel to the choice of life and to spreading God’s love and hope to young women throughout the process of pregnancy.

Women enrolled in the program are given scheduled times to come in. However, walk-in visits are always welcomed. The volunteers also take the time to visit the women at their homes, talk with the women’s spouses or parents, and encourage the whole family throughout the pregnancy process.

Medically, the women are cared for by doctors and nurses who visit the Center once a week for medical attention and twice a week for dental care.  Women have access to pregnancy tests upon arrival and literature about their condition.  Women are also provided vitamins throughout the duration of their pregnancy.  The Center hosts a baby shower for each woman before delivery and provides care for the women and clothes for the babies through the first two years of life.

Many of the women who come to the Center do not have adequate resources for raising a child.  The Center not only encourages the women to choose life for their unborn, but it also gives women the alternative of adoption by finding homes for the infants.  The Center teaches women how to get back on their own feet and provide for themselves after delivery.

How can you participate in this ministry?

• The Center is funded by grants and private contributors, and your donation helps purchase vitamins and basic infant necessities and also provides special training for volunteer staff members to improve their qualifications for serving and discipling the young women.
• Pray for young women to choose life for their unborn babies and to come to know Christ
• Pray that the Lord will continue to raise up volunteer staff members and that staff members will have great wisdom as they counsel, disciple and encourage young women

Please join us in the work of reaching Peruvians with the Gospel of Christ through our prenatal clinic that is part of the local church.