“Calls were coming in rapidly. We knew we had to do more than handouts—we had to audit real gaps.” I remember her notebook. Before our charting system sophisticated into an integrative cloud. Before expanding programmatic efforts, even before staffing, Nallely Perez had a notebook and an earned grit. I did not know her at 14 years old, eyes widened at a positive pregnancy test, or when it happened again on three subsequent occasions until her last baby at 18 years old. I met her after her work in the abortion industry, but her frankness about both her early motherhood and her previous resume didn’t shield those details from me—they were a part of her, used differently now.
The notebook was her first charting system. Having sought help for healing and reconciliation from working in the abortion industry through the organization And Then There Were None, she got to know its founder, Dr. Abby Johnson. When Abby was ready to launch its sister organization, ProLove Ministries, with its main project LoveLine, a support line that focuses on direct demographic care efforts for women facing complex situations and crisis pregnancies, Nallely became her first case manager. I met Nallely a few months after the organization’s rollout, and we rolled up our sleeves and got to work.
“We had to differentiate between simpler needs and deeper resource gaps. The situations were complex. We didn’t boast a list of services—we developed plans to help meet the need, whatever it was.” That was how she trained me to respond to women calling LoveLine’s hotline. We noticed we were often not their first call. The women who became our clients had been turned away or given irrelevant help that did not close gaps. Their desire for stability and perpetuated chronic need was not consistently rectified without collaborative effort with her and on their behalf. Sure, they may have had SNAP benefits or received diapers from a local organization, but the help lacked the cohesiveness needed for life transformation. To trust the process, they had to trust us and know we wouldn’t leave them with a slew of disconnected attempts to alleviate pain points. We had to get tactical and relational, both.
Nallely is now LoveLine’s Director of Operations, overseeing all its programmatic efforts, including a case management program made up of a team of staff and volunteers from across the country, a financial coaching and strategy program, counseling with licensed therapists, crisis support, and advising on financial and material support for clients. Since the project started, LoveLine has assisted approximately 8,000 families through hotline services and ongoing case management assistance. Being a national resource is an ambitious move, yet LoveLine has been able to meet needs wherever they arise. Working entirely outside government grants and relying solely on our donor base, LoveLine provided scholarships, vehicles, stopped evictions, and more, totaling $829,778 in 2025. The organization brought in $777,452 in income last year, so to keep meeting needs as they arise and continue strategically working with women so they don’t need us anymore, we need your help.
LoveLine has grown in its efforts and is now a sought-after resource across the country. The project works in coordination with resources local to clients to facilitate community building. Our clients have become people in their communities much like Nallely: sturdy, dependable, helpful. They become wives, employees, business owners, volunteers, and mothers who pull other women in from the fringes and insist that if they can do it, others can, too.
To support the continuation of these services, LoveLine is hosting a fundraiser this Fall called Miles for Mamas, a baby-wearing and family walking initiative that invites supporters from across the country to do what LoveLine does best: walk alongside women. This Fall, we invite you to walk for pragmatics: halt the eviction, keep the cell phone line live while she waits to hear about the job interview, heat the home, put gas in the car or a bus pass in her hand to get her to her church and her support group meetings, and help us help her build a cohesive network of resources she can use to gain stability for her family. None of us became who we are alone. When we reflect on the collaborative efforts in our own lives that gave us what we needed to become who we want to be, we can’t help but feel the pull to give others the aid we received. For those who co-labored with us, for our own sanctification as we promise to co-labor with others, for rebuilding the family and the community, and for the future of children who need mom to be there for them, we ask that you consider helping us be there for their mother.
This October 17th, we invite you to walk with her, whoever she is, in whatever community she lives in, whatever her starting point is—hit the pavement (and that donation button) so we can continue to help women not just choose life, but build lives. Join Miles for Mamas now!
Sign up to walk, fundraise, or both for Miles for Mamas here.
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Jillian Tymo is a writer and host of the podcast “Rebranding Motherhood,” founded by Dr. Abby Johnson and produced by ProLove Ministries. She examines culture through her work and academic studies at Georgetown University.
Instagram: @jilliantymo @rebrandingmotherhoodpodcast