Pam Tebow to give life-affirming talk in April

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Jan 26, 2013 at 11:31 AMJan 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM

Luke Smucker

The Caring Pregnancy Center of Pontiac will be hosting Pam Tebow, mother of 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and most recently backup quarterback with the New York Jets Tim Tebow, at the Pontiac Township High School auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on April 11. The CPC is hoping to pack the auditorium to its 900-person capacity and let Tebow give her testimony regarding the birth of her son Tim. “My hope is, as those young people will be in the audience, her testimony will deepen their conviction to have life, give life and to realize that abortion is not an option,” said CPC Director Darleta Gramm. “No matter what the situation, because there is always help out there.”Tickets for the event will cost $15 and an hour prior to the event, former bassist for the Christian rock group Newsboys, musician Phil Joel, will provide a concert to attract young teens to the event. Gramm said the reason prices are so low is due to the fact that sponsors have taken care of the expenses, allowing the CPC to offer the tickets to be sold for a low cost. After Tebow speaks, a collection will be taken to go toward Elizabeth Home, a new residential facility for unwed mothers. The home will be a branch of Caring Pregnancy Center said Gramm.“All proceeds from April 11 are going toward this new ministry,” she explained. “We will introduce that with a Powerpoint presentation and we at the CPC think that will be an exciting point for us, too.”Tebow and her husband, Bob Tebow, who heads the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association, were missionaries in the Philippines when she was told the baby she was carrying needed to be aborted because she had complications due to medication used for an amoeba infection. At that point, Gramm said Pam Tebow told the doctors her Christian faith would not allow her to consider abortion as an option and that she would be having the baby.“Well, lo and behold she had Tim,” said Gramm. “Obviously not deformed, very talented and Tim and Pam are very outspoken in the pro-life ministry and travel around the country talking about the life-affirming decisions that young girls can make instead of choosing abortion.” Mann hopes the event will help young girls understand the choices they can make instead of choosing abortion. If they aren’t in a position to care for a baby, Mann said adoption is always a preferred decision over abortion. “I have to tell you, being in a pregnancy center ministry, I have seen the devastations of abortion,” said Mann. “Post abortion syndrome is real, it has psychological and physical consequences and I have not met a girl yet who had an abortion and didn’t experience some type of negative consequence from it. We’re here in Pontiac to bring young girls who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy to a point where they can make life-affirming decisions to have their babies or place their child in an adoption plan. If they choose life and decide to keep their babies, that’s what we’re here for. We provide diapers, wipes, clothing, strollers, cribs and anything else that they need free of charge, no questions asked. We are going to help carry them through this time and be their counselors as well.”More information about the event can be found online and Gramm said people should call the CPC office and they will provide tickets for the event. Although she said there would be ticket availability at the door, she added that depends on what kind of response they get. “We specifically chose the high school to hold 900 people and we are hoping to max it out. Depending on what kind of response we get, there may or may not be tickets at the door. But they certainly need to call the office to get information, get the tickets and hopefully we will be able to accommodate everybody.”Gramm said this presentation has been in the works for some time. When asked how she was able to keep such a big event a secret, Gramm laughed and said, “We had leaked it out to certain people, but we asked them to hold this under wraps because this is so big, we wanted to explode it on the scene all at once.”