Each person touched by the Nurturing Network soon discovers that they have embarked upon a Journey with no discernable beginning or end. Whether a Client, a Member or a Servant Leader, each person enters through the same narrow Gateway. They move on to both offer and receive Gifts. This loving energy lives on to nurture the seeds of a Harvest that becomes more abundant with each passing season.

Perhaps this is why those associated with the Nurturing Network often refer to their experience as “a Journey of the Heart.” I have borrowed this term for our Journal in the hope that their collective voyage might never be forgotten. 

Each person plays a unique and essential role in this unending love story. In the pages of this Journal, I invite you to meet the unsung heroes who give meaning to the phrase, 

“Compassion in Action”

Clients who find the courage to trust again,
to overcome fear and accept practical support from total strangers.

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Volunteer Members who nurture in more ways than can be captured in words.

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Families who open their heart and home to a woman
whose own family is unable or unwilling. 

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Doctors and nurses who provide medical care
without charge and with the utmost of respect. 

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Counselors who listen and guide, encourage
and inspire at any hour of the day or night. 

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Employers who find a place at the professional table for a woman
who needs to keep her resume intact.

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Leaders in academia who provide expedited transfers to ensure that a
woman’s educational plans will not be interrupted or compromised. 

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Lawyers who offer free consultations when boyfriends use legal maneuvering
to intimidate and undermine a woman’s resolve. 

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Benefactors who fund tuition payments when a scholarship is lost,
medical bills when family resources are denied,
rent and groceries when safety risks require a confidential relocation.

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Board members who guide and inspire the leadership of TNN
while serving as Members in all of the ways mentioned above.

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Staff members who choose to devote sixty hours of work each week
and still donate their compensation.

These are the unforgettable characters who have written the script for the love stories you are about to read. They are the wayfarers along the path to a more hopeful life.

I invite you to take this opportunity to meet the Clients, Members and Servant Leaders who are the Nurturing Network. Consider the kind of world they are helping to form. Quietly and effectively, communities are being created. Families are being born. Friendships are being forged. Unconditional love is taking its rightful bow. 

I hope that while reading this Journal, you may be moved to take this Journey with me. You may have your own hidden love story or you may sense that these “maternal profiles in courage” sound very much like your own sister, your mother, or your very best friend. 

I invite you to take the hand of someone waiting to walk through the Gateway — to hope. You can make that difference. One that will be remembered for a lifetime. And beyond. 

Let the Journey begin... 

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In responding to the call to help build a culture of life, the Nurturing Network is compassionate and refreshingly apolitical.  

We are not interested in joining the debate over whether and how to remove an alternative, but rather, in how best to provide for the urgent and practical needs of any woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy.

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