I will post two articles on Tim
Tebow, who is Pro-Life. He was born on this date, August 14, 1987.
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Tim Tebow with his mother, Pam
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=33682
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Pam
Tebow addresses 250
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Sunday,
June 24, 2012
By IAN
YOUNG - Bulletin Staff Writer
Pam
Tebow, the mother of evangelistic NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, brought a pro-life
message to Martinsville on Friday.
About 250
people attended the event entitled, “An Evening with Pam Tebow,” which was
sponsored by The Pregnancy Care Center of Martinsville and Henry County, a
pro-life organization which assists and educates women with unplanned
pregnancies. The event was held at the Church at Mercy Crossing in
Martinsville.
Tebow was
there to support the center and speak to the importance of the decisions women
make regarding pregnancy.
She lives
in Florida and is a motivational speaker on pro-life and women’s issues. She
lived for a number of years as a missionary in the Philippines, preaching with
her husband, Bob Tebow, and his ministry, the Bob Tebow Evangelistic
Association. The couple also started an orphanage, called Uncle Dick’s Home, in
the Philippines in 1992.
During
Friday’s presentation, Tebow discussed the importance of religion in the family
and her experience of deciding not to abort her son “Timmy” after doctors
advised her to when she became ill while she was pregnant in the Philippines.
"Timmy"
went on to have a pro football career, playing now for the New York Jets. He
has become famous for his devotion as well as his skills on the field.
Pam Tebow
said she hopes her story will affect other women’s decisions about their
pregnancies.
At times
she was amusing, joking not to “worry, I am not going to be selling CD’s after
this” after she sang Bible verses. Tebow sang, she said, to help her children
remember the scriptures.
At other
times, she was blunt about the truth she believes about abortion in this
country.
“Girls can
get an abortion an hour away in either direction,” she said. “That is the
reality of abortion.”
Tebow
praised the work of the local Pregnancy Care Center for its role in changing
women’s minds on the issue. She added that the “impact on each person is for
eternity, not just a lifetime.”
Tebow
ended her speech with a prayer and left the stage to a standing ovation from
the crowd.
Also
during the program, the Rev. Phil Holsinger of the Blue Ridge Women’s Center in
Roanoke, discussed the importance men play in the issue.
“Why
would a man be involved in a women’s ministry,” he asked, referring to himself.
“I guarantee that for every woman that walks in the doors (of a women’s
center), a man is involved in that.”
Holsinger
added a lesson that he said he had been taught years before: “No man can be a
good father unless he himself had been fathered well.”
Holsinger
asked all the men in the audience to offer their help and mentoring to other
young men.
“I
encourage all of you (men) in the crowd to lean over and scratch the cash
amount off of the donation card your wife is holding,” said Holsinger.
“Instead, donate your time to the center and this ministry yourself.”
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Tim Tebow with his mother, Pam
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TITLE: http://www.lifenews.com/
ARTICLE TITLE: Doctors Recommended Football Star Tim Tebow Be Aborted
DATE: January 13, 2012
AUTHOR: Randy Alcorn
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Randy Alcorn (born 1954) is an American Protestant
author and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a non-profit Christian
organization dedicated to teaching an eternal viewpoint and helping the needy
of the world. He has written several novels, including Deadline, Dominion,
and Deception. He received a Gold Medallion Book Award in 2003 for his
novel Safely Home. He has also written a number of non-fiction books,
including Heaven, The Purity Principle, and The Treasure
Principle. Eternal Perspective Ministries owns the royalties to his books
and 100 percent of them are given away to support missions, famine relief,
pro-life work, and other ministries. He and his wife, Nanci, have two grown up
and married daughters, Karina and Angela, who assisted him in writing the novel
The Ishbane Conspiracy in 2001. Randy and Nanci have four grandsons.
They live in Gresham, Oregon. He wrote a book similar to The Screwtape
Letters called Lord Foulgrin's Letters. In Alcorn's book, references
are made to demons, known only as "ST" and "WW" (for it had
become a crime in Hell to even speak their real names), who had their letters
found by a human and were punished by Beelzebub for their incompetence. He has
also written a sequel to Lord Foulgrin's Letters entitled The Ishbane
Conspiracy in which Lord Foulgrin from the first book is put on probation
and is receiving letters from a senior demon named Prince Ishbane. In between
the letters actual scenes from the humans lives unfold. In November 2009,
Alcorn signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration
calling on Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and
laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against
their religious consciences.
Since I’m
working on pulling together a prolife message this weekend, filling in for Bob
and Pam Tebow who will be in New England instead of at our church, I thought I
would say something about Timmy’s entrance into this world.
I’m
pulling from a few different sources, including an interview from Pam and also
Tim’s comments in his book, Through My Eyes.
In 1985,
the Tebow family, with four children, was living in the Philippines as
missionaries. Pam Tebow contracted amoebic dysentery, likely from contaminated
drinking water. She fell into a coma and received strong drugs to combat the
infection.
It turned
out she was pregnant with her fifth child. Those drugs caused the placenta to
detach from the uterine wall, depriving the fetus—which I prefer to call the child—of
oxygen.
When it
was realized that she was pregnant, doctors stopped the drugs but said that the
high doses of medicine had already damaged the fetus (you don’t call him or her
a baby when you want him aborted, but in fact that “product of conception” was
Timmy Tebow, the same person who is now just older and bigger).
The
doctors believed there was danger to Pam and that the baby would not survive,
or if he did, would have very serious problems.
His
parents went to the best doctor in their area of the Philippines. The doctor
told his mother in a slow monotone that “An abortion is the only way to save
your life.”
As Tim
says in his book, “According to [the doctor], the ‘mass of fetal tissue’ or
‘tumor’—me—had to go.”
Pam
refused to have an abortion and asked for God’s help. She was in bed rest at a
Manila hospital for the final two months of the pregnancy.
Bob and
Pam prayed for a healthy baby, but left that up to God.
After
Timmy was born, the doctor who delivered him said only a small part of the
placenta was attached, but it was “just enough to keep your baby nourished all
these months.”
After
birth, both Pam and Tim faced serious challenges. Pam said, “We were concerned
at first because he was so malnourished.”
Looking at
this photo of Tim warming up (right) before last week’s game with the Steelers,
I’m thinking malnutrition wasn’t a long term problem.
Okay, so
I’ve told the inspiring story about doctors being wrong—wrong about Pam dying
if she didn’t get the abortion, and wrong about Timmy’s long-term health. (By
the way, as much as I respect the medical profession, physicians are sometimes
wrong in their medical predictions, and even when right they’re not always the
best moral guides. That’s why I cringe when I hear people say “abortion should
be a decision between a woman and her doctor.” I’ve talked with many women who
didn’t have Bob and Pam Tebow’s resolve, but who now wish they hadn’t listened
to their doctor when he advised an abortion.)
Returning
to the doctors who recommended Pam to abort, suppose they had been right about
Timmy having health problems if he survived. Suppose that instead of looking
like he does, Timmy had ended up like this boy:
Is this
child any less precious in God’s sight than Timmy? No. Should he be any less
precious in our sight? No. Would the doctor have been right to advise an
abortion in the case of this child? No. A child is a child. He doesn’t have to
be a superstar, and he doesn’t have to be “normal.”
Who makes
disabled people the way they are? Some people think it’s the devil, many think
it’s just a tragic accident. What does the Bible say?
The LORD
said to him [Moses], “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who
gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?” (Exodus 4:11)
So let’s
celebrate that God preserved Pam Tebow and her son Timmy. But let’s also
remember there are countless disabled children and families who need our love
and support. (Joni
and Friends is one of the wonderful organizations EPM supports that
serves them.) And that even if the doctor had been right about Timmy’s
prognosis, killing him by abortion would have been just as wrong, and just as
tragic.
Finally,
if you want a refreshing view of the heart and priorities of a professional
athlete, check out this video link sent to me by our friend Diane Meyer. Tim
Tebow talks here for seven minutes, mostly about prison ministry. Whether Tim
Tebow and the Broncos win or lose against the Patriots Saturday is
insignificant compared to the values reflected in this video.
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