Pregnancy Screening Center

Five days a week, faithful volunteers are available to counsel young women facing crisis pregnancies.  Since the screenings began, more than 100 girls and women have received preganancy tests, counseling, prayer and the message of the Gospel.  Mothers can also receive free baby clothes and doctor referrals.  And here's the best news---babies are being saved and their mothers brought to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!

Passion for Ministry Emerges from Pain

Thea Schindler, one of the Co-Directors of our Pregnancy Screening Center, has developed a passion for this ministry as a result of the pain of her past.

Her pain is that of a little girl in the aftermath of World War II. Thea and her family had to leave everything behind when they fled East Germany in 1945. They were on the street with nothing, facing starvation and the loss of their freedom. When the Russians arrived, she and her parents evacuated first to Czechoslovakia and then to the United States.

“My family suffered terribly when God judged Germany for the holocaust,” Thea explains, “even though my parents were not Nazis, and did not support Hitler’s extermination of the Jews.”

“Abortion is a holocaust in our nation, and people in America have no idea what can happen when God judges a nation,” she says. “The good will suffer with the bad. We will be judged for what we fail to do. Christians have to wake up.”

Thea’s childhood experience developed in her a passion for preserving life. “I feel compelled to stand up and speak up for babies who have no voices but ours to defend them,” she says.

When Thea and her friend, Lois Knight, learned about City on a Hill, they heard God’s call to establish a pregnancy screening center here. Today, they are the Center’s co-directors.

Since the ministry began, more than 100 girls and women have received pregnancy tests, counseling, prayer and a presentation of the Gospel. Thus far, 12 babies have been saved, and 20 mothers have been brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus.

There is so much more to be done. To volunteer at the Center, call 414-345-9823.