Who we are

Many Orthodox Christian women are fortunate to have the love and support structure to lead them to marriage, children, and a meaningful life. Others, however, are not as fortunate. They find themselves in a crisis pregnancy. They have made the wrong choices and are in turmoil. They're not thinking, they're panicking.

So few women are well versed on the various services and support groups available to them. The overwhelming concern is "What am I going to do now?" Many wrestle with abortion, some with adoption, some with suicide. It is disturbing that most of the Orthodox Christian women who are in trouble do not turn to their church for guidance; perhaps because there are so very few places to turn to within the Orthodox community. These women need
emotional support, confidential access to professional
agencies, and access to potential adoptive Orthodox
families to encourage them to carry their infants to term.

ZOE serves as a conduit, guiding women to a
wider range of support organizations,
providing them with a more attractive set
of options and hopefully a more promising
outlook on their situation. For example, there
is financial assistance, housing assistance,
medical assistance, prenatal care, adoption
services and other services available that are
usually unknown to most women in crisis
pregnancies. It is ZOE's goal to
connect these women
with these services.