What Differentiates JOL
Our Mission
The mission of Journey of a Lifetime (JOL) is to support, equip, and empower parents who have received a life-limiting or other adverse perinatal diagnosis to advocate for the life, health and well-being of their baby and to serve as a liaison for life-affirming case management care coordination throughout pregnancy and up until one year after birth.
Our Vision
Journey of a Lifetime (JOL) envisions a day when all babies created in the image of God are recognized as persons and treated with dignity and respect and their lives celebrated; that parents who have received a life-limiting or other adverse perinatal diagnosis are adequately supported and do not walk alone and that their parental agency is recognized and honored; and that the medical, religious, and pro-life communities utilize a trauma informed approach and strategies, with respect to perinatal palliative care, and refrain from the use of inflammatory “lethal” language.
Our Purpose
The purpose of Journey of a Lifetime (JOL) is to improve health and quality of life for others; to sustain; to preserve, and to defend life; educate and advocate for the care, welfare and well-being of others; and the advancement of public interest on the community, local, state, and national level for issues related to the sanctity of human life from fertilization to natural death. Promoting Godly lifestyles, relationships and family structures, recognizing the intrinsic value of human life created in the image of God rooted in Christian Biblical teachings and the Hippocratic Oath.
Values
Biblical Truth
Imago Dei
Respect
Collaboration
Compassion
Reconciliation
Hippocratic Ethics
Foundational Bible Verses
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing
Ephesians 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Luke 10:27
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Matthew 25:34-40
‘For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Deuteronomy 10: 17-18
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Jeremiah 1:5a
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.
Psalm 139: 13-16
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 127:3-5a
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate.
Proverbs 24:10-12
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited. Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back. If you say, “See, we did not know this,” Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work?
2 Corinthians 5:18
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
Galatians 6:10
Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.
