We believe that the Lord has given Community Pregnancy Clinics a specific and narrow mission.  We are called to use the medical clinic model to save babies and help moms.  The tool of the medical clinics is both a great gift and responsibility.  It is a gift because it is so effective.  It is a responsibility because God expects us to use it well and he will hold us accountable.  Therefore, we strive for excellence in all we do and we strive to be focused on our mission.  Like the wise virgins of Matthew 25, Community Pregnancy Clinics seeks to faithfully fulfill the role that God has given us.

 

Since 1974, our mission at CPCI has been to save babies from abortion by providing care, compassion, and choices to the communities that we serve.

Community Pregnancy Clinics (CPCI) has been helping women and saving babies from abortion since 1974.  In response to the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion, a group of dedicated Naples volunteers founded the organization to provide positive alternatives to women facing unplanned pregnancies.  As one of the original 13 pregnancy resource centers in the country, CPCI originally opened under the name Emergency Pregnancy Services (EPS) and offered free pregnancy testing, counseling, referral services, and material assistance.

In 2002, the Board of Directors made the decision to convert to a medical clinic model under the name Collier Pregnancy Centers, Inc.  They were one of the first in the state of Florida to become a life-affirming medical center and operate under medical directors.  As a result, over 5,000 women each year are provided with medically accurate information and being encouraged to choose life.

In September 2007, CPCI opened with first satellite clinic in Fort Myers.  Only two doors away from the most active abortion mill in Lee County at the time, CPCI was soon operating at fully capacity.  Within three short years, there was a dramatic reduction in the abortionist's business, and in 2011 CPCI moved to a larger, more strategically located space across the street from the Fort Myers Planned Parenthood.  

As a result of successful growth, the Board of Directors decided to change CPCI's name in Janaury 2012 to its encompassing title, Community Pregnancy Clinics (CPCI).  Since then, CPCI has continued to expand at a rapid rate.  With two mobile medical clinics and additional clinics in Sarasota and Gainesville, CPCI has become the largest system of pregnancy centers in the state of Florida.  

As CPCI seeks to expand throughout the state, they will utilize their successful YOUniversity model, opening clinics on college campuses to serve the most abortion-vulnerable communities.  Through the support of generous donors, CPCI continues to serve women with care compasion, and choices, and has saved over 21,000 babies from abortion throughout the state of Florida.  

We believe that when it comes to evangelization there is both the witness of our lives and the witness of our words.  The two are inseparable parts of a whole.  To be consistent, a believer needs to have both.  However in our experience the witness of our lives is foundational.  Our words fall flat and are even scandalous when our lives don't line up with our words.  In addition, when clients experience kindness and caring, they are more open to hear our words.  Therefore in everything we do, we seek to show love of God and love of neighbor.

We desire that our clients would have a tangible experience of the love of Jesus for them personally.  In offering our assistance freely to our clients we pose a question to them, "why do these people, these strangers, care about me and my baby?"  The answer is that we care because God cares.  The witness of words is important too.  If we are afraid to talk about our faith then it calls that faith into question.  Words are most effective when in the context of a relationship.  Our words should flow from our lives and be natural rather than transactional or programmatic.

Our staff as people of faith are encouraged as appropriate and in the context of the relationship to share their faith with clients.  There is an element of context that must be considered in relationship to evangelization also.  Effective evangelization looks different in different circumstances.  For example the way a pastor, teacher, or small business owner would exercise evangelization within their professions is very different.  Everyone expects the pastor to be out front with his faith. However, a teacher might be actually prohibited from mentioning their faith at work.  As a result their evangelization activities might be limited to praying for students and colleagues, the witness of their lives, and waiting for someone to take the initiative. The small business owner might have more latitude to speak and display religious items in their business.

Community Pregnancy Clinics are medical clinics.  As an organization we are not primarily a tool of direct evangelization, beyond the daily call of all believers to be witnesses to Jesus Christ.  In this sense we are similar to a law practice.  One hires a lawyer to solve a legal problem.  If that lawyer happens to do their work well and happens also to be a person of faith, there can be an evangelistic element to the relationship.  However the evangelism is not primary.  If the lawyer's primary goal is to evangelize this presents a problem. He is likely not doing the legal work well because he is not focused on it.  In addition there is a misrepresentation and element of deception to the relationship; he was hired to do one thing but is choosing to do another.

God made men free so that we could freely choose to love Him.  His gift of freedom is in many ways a great mystery.  God so respects our freedom that he allows us to reject him, and in the process never manipulates or coerces us.  God gives us the freedom to be wrong.  Therefore we seek to have the same respect for our clients. Rather than manipulate or coerce, we seek to share the truth in love.  We propose the truth rather than seek to impose it.  We always seek to be upfront with our clients and never to have an ulterior motive.

At Community Pregnancy Clinics, it takes $1,020 to save a baby from abortion each year, $85 to save one baby from abortion each year when given monthly, $45 to provide free medical services to clients in need, or $25 to provide free medical services to clients in need.  Hundreds of supporters of Community Pregnancy Clinics have become CPCI Life Savers with their pledge of support.  Prayerfully consider becoming a donor and visit: Community Pregnancy Clinics - Donate.

For more information contact or visit:

Scott Baier, CEO
Community Pregnancy Clinics (CPCI)
Care. Compassion. Choices.

940 Fifth Avenue North
Naples, FL 34102
239-262-6381

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