A most interesting story …

… Embracing Grace: Amy Ford Shares A Powerful ‘Pro-Love’ Message.

At the Care Net conference, Ford shared a testimony about the reconciliation that eventually happened with the pastor who refused to marry the young couple when she was first pregnant.

“He asked my husband for forgiveness and said it was the worst mistake he has made as a pastor,” recalled Ford.

A couple of years later, Amy Ford was asked to speak at that pastor’s church for a Mother’s Day service. After she spoke, the pastor asked Ford and her son Jess, who was 16 at the time, for forgiveness in front of his congregation.

“He was very open about what he had done years before. He said that he had a religious spirit, a pharisee heart,” Amy Ford said.

In an apology to Jess Ford, the pastor said, “While you were in your mother’s womb, I rejected you. Will you forgive me?”

“It was such a powerful moment,” Amy Ford said. “You could feel church wounds being lifted in the room. The fact that the pastor would humble himself in that way was so amazing. And he has his own [testimony] about grace and mercy and what God did in his heart.”