Our Mission
The Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns is a locally organized and funded volunteer ministry demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by providing abortion alternatives to pregnant women. We service clients by addressing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. We also strive to provide accurate and complete information on prenatal development and abortion. We believe access to this information is needed in order to provide our clients with the facts, allowing them to make informed decisions. Ultimately, we desire to protect the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of our clients and their unborn children. We also provide emotional support and resources to any woman who comes to us having had an abortion. We believe our ministry to these and all women is to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
Dear Friends of CPC,
As the opening of Options@328 approached last fall, we, the Board of Directors and the Executive Director, recognized the need to form a strategic plan that would allow us to take full advantage of our new location, as well as the many new tools—medical, educational, and technological—that are now available to help us reach abortion-vulnerable women. We also desired to make the best use of our other locations. There are changes that result from our plan-changes we believe will save more lives. We would like to keep you current on some of the changes that will result from our plan—changes we believe will save more lives.
As part of our new strategy, all of our staff roles and responsibilities have been updated to meet current needs. The roles of our locations have shifted somewhat as well. Options@328 is our medical services facility. (Since we own the building, it will also become our mailing address.) At Options@328, we provide life-saving services—pregnancy tests, sonograms, counseling and abortion pill reversal. The center is accessible by light rail, bus lines, and car, which has enabled women to come to us from all throughout the city, the surrounding counties and even the Eastern Shore and Pennsylvania. Options@328 is open Monday through Friday, as is Planned Parenthood (PP), so that abortion-vulnerable women don't have to wait to see us. Some women have called us from the lobby of PP and we have already supported several women seeking abortion pill reversal. We are so blessed to be there!
To further support our clients, our other locations, dubbed Resource Centers, will provide material resources and educational programs for new moms. Due to the shift in activities and a decreased need for space, our Essex location will soon be relocating nearby to Mars Hill Baptist Church on Old Eastern Ave. St. Ann’s will also serve as a Resource Center.
As of April 1, our Arbutus location will no longer be affiliated with CPC but become one of the community resources to which we refer moms in need. Led by God’s call, our dedicated coordinator there, Allison Benson, is going to transform the location into a new ministry to serve the poor in Arbutus, supported by Matt’s House church next door. Struggling moms in the area will still be able to receive material help through Allison’s ministry and from our St. Ann’s center, and educational programs will still be available to them online.
A lot of growth has happened at CPC in the past year, growth that allows us to reach many more abortion-vulnerable women, especially through our new abortion pill reversal service. We are confident that the steps described in this letter will further bolster our ability to fulfill our important mission. We are blessed by your faithful support and are excited for the future.
Respectfully,
The Board of Directors
Gina Ruppert, Executive Director
The Center for Pregnancy Concerns
The Board of Directors
Matthew Bauer, Chair; Catherine Gara, Ph.D., Secretary; Bryce Bauer, Treasurer; Louis Breschi, M.D.; Timothy Dygert, Jr., Esq.; Amy Erardi
