We are a community ready and eager to stand beside our clients with ongoing love and support.

WE STAND BESIDE OUR CLIENTS WITH ONGOING LOVE AND SUPPORT.

WHO WE ARE

AN INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

WE STRIVE TO PROMOTE THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE BY SERVING THE UNBORN AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST.


Alternatives is a pro-life, Christian, non-profit organization independent from all other agencies. We strive to meet the needs of men, women, and families in our community through building relationships. We do not initiate or facilitate independent adoptions.

NEW INITIATIVES


Alternatives continues to grow! As we focus on the care that we give our clients, our new name, Alternatives Care Centers highlights that it's the "care" we have for people that sets us apart. 


Our newest location, in Kalamazoo on Burdick street, serves this community by providing pregnancy tests and clothing room services with transportation assistance to our West Michigan office for ultrasound and sexually transmitted infection screening. 


We look forward to meeting more people "where they're at" in the coming year. 

OUR COMMITMENT
TO OUR COMMUNITY

To provide clients with complete and accurate information about prenatal development, abortion, adoption, parenting, sexual risk avoidance, STIs, healthy relationships, and the sanctity of human life.

CLIENT
EDUCATION

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To help men and women in our communities by proving physical, emotional, and spiritual support. Our resources equip our clients to face the future with hope and purpose.

CLIENT
SUPPORT

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To be a voice within our community that promotes and upholds fundamental Christian values as it relates to life, relationships, and faith.

COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT

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OUR COMMITMENT
TO OUR COMMUNITY

CLIENT EDUCATION

To provide clients with complete and accurate information about prenatal development, abortion, adoption, parenting, sexual risk avoidance, STIs, healthy relationships, and the sanctity of human life.

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CLIENT SUPPORT

To help men and women in our communities by proving physical, emotional, and spiritual support. Our resources equip our clients to face the future with hope and purpose.

LEARN MORE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

To be a voice within our community that promotes and upholds fundamental Christian values as it relates to life, relationships, and faith.

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ALTERNATIVES DOES NOT

  • Discriminate in providing services because of race, gender, religion, national origin, age, or marital status.
  • Advise, provide, or refer for abortion or abortifacients.
  • Engage in contraceptive counseling or in referring for contraceptives or services.

Women seeking information on contraceptives will be given preliminary educational information of various methods of birth control and the potential risks and side effects. Married women seeking contraceptive information will be urged to seek counsel, along with their husbands, from their pastor, and/or physician.


2023

CLIENT STORY

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We had an opportunity to meet with a woman who shared that she was very anxious to tell her husband that she thought she was pregnant. She was considering abortion, in part, because of not knowing how he would respond. She confided that she had a past abortion when she was young. The abortion had been forced upon her by her mother and it was still impacting her life today. In our time with her we learned that she has experienced so much trauma in her life ranging from her father being murdered when she was two and her first husband being murdered as well. She is a mother of 6 children whose husband incurred an injury that has placed him on disability. He now faces struggles in his own life. We had the opportunity to provide a limited ultrasound with the initial result being inconclusive as she was very early in her pregnancy . She was willing to return again to receive another scan and this time was happy to share that she'd spoken with her husband and the discussion went better than she'd hoped; they are now committed to carrying their baby and bringing their son or daughter into their family! Thanks be to God for the hope, love and support that she experienced to help her have the courage to accept this gift of life! 

OUR  CONFESSION
ALTERNATIVES BELIEVES IN THE FOLLOWING CORE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES:

  • God created the heavens and the earth.
  • Jesus Christ is also God. He is fully man and fully God. And although Son of God the Father, is also God himself. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, was crucified for our sins, died, and was buried. He rose again on the third day and ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God. the Father.  He will one day return to judge the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • The work of God, the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is able to live a godly life and to perform work for the kingdom of God.
  • The Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant authoritative Word of God.
  • The sanctity of human life as created by God, and in the worth of that life from the point of conception to natural death.
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