Sarah E. Dove, Executive Director
I had a wonderful Christian raising, but it was, for the most part, sheltered, so I didn’t know anything out there,” Dove recalled. “I was a young, naïve person. When I discovered the world, I wasn’t ready.
When I became pregnant a third time, I considered abortion again. However, the father of her child altered my course.
My now-husband, we were dating at the time, looked at me and said, "You’ve got to try to stop pleasing people. You can do this; we can do this. It’ll be fine. You’ve just got to grow up and tell them we’ve done this.’
It was only about five minutes, but it was a complete transformation, just someone telling me changed my mind set about it. So, I got brave and told my mom that we were pregnant. It was like about two seconds of shock, and then nothing but excitement.
The minute my daughter was born completely changed my perspective on what I had been doing, what I was doing.
Two years later, I felt a calling from God “to do something” like helping families “sustain themselves,” and decided to volunteer at a pregnancy resource center. I thought, ‘What a better way to do that (help families) with the closest thing and volunteer at a pregnancy center”.
As a volunteer, I assisted with the Walk for Life, spoke in churches, and conducted sidewalk advocacy. One day, while doing that work in Greensboro, another person came up and suggested that a pregnancy center should start in Alamance County, where I lived.
This person said, ‘Well, why don’t you do it?’. As they were talking to me, I couldn’t see them anymore – I just felt like God was talking to me.
A family member had encouraged me five years earlier to start a center in that same county.
I called my mother and said, ‘Well, we’ve got a new mission.’ So, we started working on it and building connections.
