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“I don’t love you enough to have your children.”  That was the only explanation I received from my girlfriend, who would have been the mother of my child.  In a ten minute conversation on the phone, I heard from the woman I thought I was going to marry that I had been a father for two or three months.  I had no idea that she was pregnant.  For several months, I was depressed.  I did not want to attend my university classes, I didn’t eat, and I started a four year addiction to pornography.  I didn’t stop going to church and believing in God during this time.  I felt like a hypocrite, and that made the feelings that much worse.  During those years of pain, guilt, and shame, it never occurred to me that maybe it was because I needed an inner healing.  I thought I was “over it”. 

When I was twenty-six years old, six years after this mistake, I heard about SaveOne.  They made an announcement for the start of the new class and it was open for men who had this in their past.  Immediately I knew I should go.  I thought I was healed and had moved on only to find out there was still hurt and grief for the child who was taken from me. 

I was the only man in the class; the first for SaveOne.  I was newly married and my wife took a brave step and attended the class with me.  Kristy has never had an abortion, but it turned out that this class was as much for her as it was for me.  I discovered healing; she discovered wrong thinking that needed correction.  So often, women who have made the choice of abortion are looked down upon.  This is just as wrong as the act itself.

When my wife and I moved to Slovenia in 2004 we knew we weren’t coming here just for a new job.  We believed God had a greater purpose for us though we did not know at the time what that was.  God spoke to me first about starting SaveOne in Slovenia.  I can’t explain why God would call a man to start an abortion ministry.  All I know is that He has given Kristy and me a burden to reach out to hurting women.

We strongly believe that SaveOne is one of the tools our almighty Father is going to use to restore the beauty of womanhood and turn this nation to Himself.  Since asking Sheila Harper if we could translate SaveOne into Slovene and further the ministry in this great nation our lives have become a whirlwind of adventure.  God has given us a larger vision that spreads from one end of Europe to the other.  Come join us in prayer and support as we pursue God and promote His goodness.