Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic is a Christian ministry which offers life-affirming services to women and men facing unintended pregnancies and reproductive choices.

The Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic is a Christian ministry which defends life by supporting women and men in unplanned pregnancies, providing resources and referrals, bringing healing and wholeness to lives traumatized by abortion, bringing them to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and challenging our community to adopt a Godly view of sexuality and the sanctity of human life.

The Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic strives be the most trusted place in the Los Angeles area for those facing pregnancy-related decisions.

The corporation has adopted a Statement of Faith that outlines its understanding of saving faith and those points of truth which relate directly to it. This statement is based upon the National Association of Evangelicals’ Statement of Faith.

1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, inerrant, authoritative Word of God.

2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential and that this salvation is received through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and not as a result of good works.

5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to perform good works.

6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe that in order to preserve the function and integrity of the corporation and to provide a Biblical role model to clients of Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic and to the community, it is imperative that all persons employed by the organization in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, wholeheartedly agree to this Statement of Faith.

1.  The corporation is an outreach ministry of Jesus Christ through His church.  Therefore, the corporation, embodied in its volunteers, is committed to presenting the gospel of our Lord to women and men with unexpected pregnancies – both in word and in deed.  Commensurate with this purpose, those who labor as the corporation’s board members, staff and volunteers are expected to know Christ as their Savior and Lord.

2. The corporation is committed to providing its clients with accurate and complete information about both prenatal development and abortion.

3. The corporation is committed to integrity in dealing with clients earning their trust and providing promised information and services.  The corporation denounces any forms of deception in its corporate advertising or individual conversations with its clients.

4. The corporation is committed to assisting women to carry to term by providing emotional support and practical assistance.  Through the provision of God’s people and the community at large, women may face the future with hope and plan constructively for themselves and their babies.

5. The corporation does not discriminate in providing services because of religion, race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance or regulation.  

6. The corporation does not recommend, provide, or refer for abortion or abortifacients.

7. The corporation offers its stated purposes and services free of charge at all times.

8. The corporation is committed to creating awareness within the community of the needs of pregnant women and of the fact that abortion only compounds human need rather than resolving it.

9. The corporation does not recommend, provide, or refer single women for contraceptives.  (Married women seeking contraceptive information will be urged, when appropriate, to seek counsel along with their husbands from their pastor and physician.)

10. The corporation recognizes the validity of adoption as one alternative to abortion, but is not biased toward adoption when compared to the other life-saving alternatives.  The corporation is independent of adoption agencies, relating to them in the same manner as other helpful referral sources.  The corporation receives no payment of any kind from these agencies, does not enter into contractual relationships with them, and does not share combined office space.  Adoption agencies are not established under the auspices of the Clinic.  The corporation neither initiates nor facilitates independent adoptions, though the corporation may refer for independent adoptions in states where it is legal.

11. The corporation is committed to the healing process of those suffering from the physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences of abortion.

12. The corporation is committed to promoting God’s design for sexuality and supports the Biblical concept of abstinence outside of marriage and faithfulness within marriage.

The statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our faith.  The Bible itself is the sole and final source of all that we believe as interpreted and applied by our governing board.  We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible Word of God and is final authority concerning morality and conduct of mankind.  For purposes of our religious foundations, our board of directors, in consultation with the Pastoral Advisory Committee, is the final interpretive authority on the Bible’s meaning and application.

1. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female.  These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen 1:26-27). We believe gender is determined by biology and physiology and is not to be subjectively determined by the emotions or desires of a person.  Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.

2. We believe the term “marriage” has only one meaning:  the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Gen 2:18-25). 

3. We believe God designed sexual intimacy to be between one man and one woman who are married to each other (Gen 2:23-24).  

4. We believe God commands that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman (Heb 13:4).

5. We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, use of pornography, or any attempt to change one’s sex or disagreement with one’s biological sex) is sinful and offensive to God (Matt 15:18-20; 1 Cor 6:9-10).

6. We believe that in order to preserve the function and integrity of Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic and to provide a Biblical role model to clients of Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic and to the community, it is imperative that all persons employed by the organization in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, agree to and abide by this Statement on Marriage, Gender and Sexuality (Matt 5:16, Phil 2:14-16, 1 Thess 5:22).

7. We believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ (Acts 3:19-21, Rom 10:9-10, 1 Cor 6:9-11).

8. We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity (Mark 12:28-31, Luke 6:31).  Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the doctrines of the Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic.

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image.  Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death.  We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life (Psalm 139).