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Who We Are: About Us

Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun 


Agapé (ag-ah-pay) is the unconditional love of God. It is the self-giving love that is offered freely without asking anything in return — it is a love of the will, that seeks the highest good of the other person. We at Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun feel called to share this kind of love, without expectation or judgment, with pregnant women that seek our support. We trust that those that do not know the word or the meaning when they come to us, will leave us having a full understanding of God’s love for them due to our actions and words.


Since 1974, Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun’s mission has been “Every Pregnant Woman Has the Right to Give Birth and Every Child has the Right to be Born.”

Our ministry’s purpose is to walk beside each pregnant woman during what can be an especially vulnerable time in her life. By providing her with peer counseling, free pregnancy testing, diverse resources, and assisting with her material needs, we hope to set her on a solid path of success for herself, so she may provide properly for her family. We are expanding our resources and services to include our own ultrasound van which will offer the lifesaving gift of a sonogram. We are also now affiliated with other programs in the community, state, and country, both nonprofit and at the local and state government level, to ensure our mothers and their babies are supported in a community of care for as long as they need us.

As a 501(c)(3) religious organization we have the freedom to increase our services as needed, broaden our outreach, and be unfettered in the support we can provide for our moms and their babies. Click to read our Statement of  Beliefs.



Who We Are: About Us

Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun 


Agapé (ag-ah-pay) is the unconditional love of God. It is the self-giving love that is offered freely without asking anything in return — it is a love of the will, that seeks the highest good of the other person. We at Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun feel called to share this kind of love, without expectation or judgment, with pregnant women that seek our support. We trust that those that do not know the word or the meaning when they come to us, will leave us having a full understanding of God’s love for them due to our actions and words.


Since 1974, Agapé Pregnancy Center of Loudoun’s mission has been “Every Pregnant Woman Has the Right to Give Birth and Every Child has the Right to be Born.”

Our ministry’s purpose is to walk beside each pregnant woman during what can be an especially vulnerable time in her life. By providing her with peer counseling, free pregnancy testing, diverse resources, and assisting with her material needs, we hope to set her on a solid path of success for herself, so she may provide properly for her family. We are expanding our resources and services to include our own ultrasound van which will offer the lifesaving gift of a sonogram. We are also now affiliated with other programs in the community, state, and country, both nonprofit and at the local and state government level, to ensure our mothers and their babies are supported in a community of care for as long as they need us.

As a 501(c)(3) religious organization we have the freedom to increase our services as needed, broaden our outreach, and be unfettered in the support we can provide for our moms and their babies. Click to read our Statement of  Beliefs.



A Message from our Executive Director 

When my mother found herself pregnant at 17, her family gave her two choices: Abort your baby or never speak to anyone in your family again.
 

Under that pressure, she chose abortion.  That choice set her on a path of pain, heartache and destruction which included additional abortions, two nervous breakdowns, a failed marriage, an inability to maintain intimate relationships with others and difficulty in bonding with the children she eventually did have.  It was not until she was in her early 70’s did my mother recognize the thread of pain and destruction in her life that began with her ‘choice’ to abort her first and successive children.

As her first child to be born, my entire life was poisoned by her choice to abort her first children.  While I had always known of her ‘choices’ it was not until I became a mother myself that I understood how her choice had ruined her.  When she began to heal, I began to search for ways to help other women who find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy and need support.  I did not want another woman, or her family, to suffer as my mother and my family had.
     
After many years of feeling called to serve in the prolife movement, in January of 2022 I began volunteering at the two pregnancy centers in Loudoun County. 18 months later I was asked to Serve as the Executive Director of one of those pregnancy centers, and a year later we rebranded as Agape Pregnancy Center.  I am called by God to serve the women of this community who need support in facing an unplanned pregnancy.  I am also called to witness the Agape love of the women and men who are serving beside me. I am grateful for the opportunity to love both the women and their precious babies.  I pray that women are saved from the lies and confusion that was so detrimental to my mother. As part of my mother's healing, she now serves in a pregnancy center near her, helping women heal from their abortions.
 
My husband Eric and I moved to Loudoun in 1999, and we have four children and a beloved goldendoodle. Our family attends and serves at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, VA. In my spare time I enjoy reading, writing, walking my beloved Rylee and serving at our church. 


     Zoë Byer

A Message from our Executive Director 

When my mother found herself pregnant at 17, her family gave her two choices: Abort your baby or never speak to anyone in your family again.
 

Under that pressure, she chose abortion.  That choice set her on a path of pain, heartache and destruction which included additional abortions, two nervous breakdowns, a failed marriage, an inability to maintain intimate relationships with others and difficulty in bonding with the children she eventually did have.  It was not until she was in her early 70’s did my mother recognize the thread of pain and destruction in her life that began with her ‘choice’ to abort her first and successive children.

As her first child to be born, my entire life was poisoned by her choice to abort her first children.  While I had always known of her ‘choices’ it was not until I became a mother myself that I understood how her choice had ruined her.  When she began to heal, I began to search for ways to help other women who find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy and need support.  I did not want another woman, or her family, to suffer as my mother and my family had.
     
After many years of feeling called to serve in the prolife movement, in January of 2022 I began volunteering at the two pregnancy centers in Loudoun County. 18 months later I was asked to Serve as the Executive Director of one of those pregnancy centers, and a year later we rebranded as Agape Pregnancy Center.  I am called by God to serve the women of this community who need support in facing an unplanned pregnancy.  I am also called to witness the Agape love of the women and men who are serving beside me. I am grateful for the opportunity to love both the women and their precious babies.  I pray that women are saved from the lies and confusion that was so detrimental to my mother. As part of my mother's healing, she now serves in a pregnancy center near her, helping women heal from their abortions.
 
My husband Eric and I moved to Loudoun in 1999, and we have four children and a beloved goldendoodle. Our family attends and serves at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, VA. In my spare time I enjoy reading, writing, walking my beloved Rylee and serving at our church. 


     Zoë Byer

A Message from our Executive Director 

When my mother found herself pregnant at 17, her family gave her two choices: Abort your baby or never speak to anyone in your family again.
 

Under that pressure, she chose abortion.  That choice set her on a path of pain, heartache and destruction which included additional abortions, two nervous breakdowns, a failed marriage, an inability to maintain intimate relationships with others and difficulty in bonding with the children she eventually did have.  It was not until she was in her early 70’s did my mother recognize the thread of pain and destruction in her life that began with her ‘choice’ to abort her first and successive children.

As her first child to be born, my entire life was poisoned by her choice to abort her first children.  While I had always known of her ‘choices’ it was not until I became a mother myself that I understood how her choice had ruined her.  When she began to heal, I began to search for ways to help other women who find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy and need support.  I did not want another woman, or her family, to suffer as my mother and my family had.
     
After many years of feeling called to serve in the prolife movement, in January of 2022 I began volunteering at the two pregnancy centers in Loudoun County. 18 months later I was asked to Serve as the Executive Director of one of those pregnancy centers, and a year later we rebranded as Agape Pregnancy Center.  I am called by God to serve the women of this community who need support in facing an unplanned pregnancy.  I am also called to witness the Agape love of the women and men who are serving beside me. I am grateful for the opportunity to love both the women and their precious babies.  I pray that women are saved from the lies and confusion that was so detrimental to my mother. As part of my mother's healing, she now serves in a pregnancy center near her, helping women heal from their abortions.
 
My husband Eric and I moved to Loudoun in 1999, and we have four children and a beloved goldendoodle. Our family attends and serves at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, VA. In my spare time I enjoy reading, writing, walking my beloved Rylee and serving at our church. 


     Zoë Byer

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