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 (left)
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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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Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow and Nathan
Whitaker
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PAGE 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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