• a community responding in a loving
  and non-judgmental way
  to a mother-to-be
  
  
• an "angel" assigned to a mother,
  responsible for on-going contact
  with her both during her pregnancy and sometimes after delivery
  
  
• a Good Samaritan approach to helping a woman in a crisis pregnancy
  
  
• a "Sign of Life" in front of a church advertising that this faith community is prepared to help any woman who chooses life for her unborn child
  
  

Gabriel is...

• Pastoral - the church responding to a mother's physical, spiritual, emotional and material needs
  
  
• Educational - the church proclaiming the value and dignity of all life, especially unborn life, through the witness and actions of its members
  
  
• Evangelical - the church loving and caring for those possibly outside the faith community so that they may be brought closer to God