In the Bible, the book of Ruth illustrates the difference between those who step out in faith and take risks, and those who give into fear, play it safe, and miss God’s best for them. God rewards faith, not fear! What Challenge was the St. John Paul II Life Center Facing? On December 21, 2023, as my wife, Pat, and I and all Christians awaited celebrating the birth of Jesus, the situation for the St. John Paul II Life Center (JPII Life Center) in Ausin, Texas, was uncertain. As Co-Founders of the JPII Life Center and the Vitae Clinic 14 years ago, we nurtured and saw first-hand the tremendous amount of work the Center done since its founding to save more than 2,500 babies' lives; thanks to devoted staff, our Board of Directors, and hundreds of supporters... but could all that effort to save babies 'lives and help expectant mothers now be in jeopardy? We had started a $10,000,000 Capital Campaign. We had collected about $750,000 and had an additional $3,000,000 in pledges – some pledges to come in over five years. We had nearly $9,000,000 in commitments to buy a 19,000 square foot office building that needed just over $2,000,000 in renovation to provide a new national headquarters to house both the Center and Clinic, allow expansion of both, and launch major educational initiatives. We had a contract for the new building (the Marathon Building) to close on January 15, 2024, and a construction contract to finish renovations on February 22, 2024. Our lease on the offices we have occupied since October 2010...
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