Chosen for a Purpose: A Survivor’s Journey of Faith and Gratitude
Radio Announcer: [00:00:00] Pro-Life Radio is a prerecorded program paid for by Pro-Life Radio. Preserving the sanctity of life in Florida, A loud voice for the unborn. This is Pro-Life Radio. With your hosts, Vicky and Bruce Cherry,
Bruce Cherry: and welcome to another edition of Pro-Life Radio, the last one of the year.
Vicky Cherry: Wow,
Bruce Cherry: man. Time has flow.
Bruce Cherry: Flow and you know,
Vicky Cherry: this is also our two year anniversary. It
Bruce Cherry: is, it is. Absolutely. So. Wow. And, uh, and we’re just, we’re thankful. We’re so thankful. We’ve been the air
Vicky Cherry: for two years. Two years. Can you believe it?
Bruce Cherry: Going into our third year now. Amen. Very, very blessed and, uh, very blessed with the people who have supported this, uh, this radio ministry and, uh, to help keep it on the air.
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Bruce Cherry: I don’t have it in front of me and I apologize. But, uh, that way you can take advantage of the, uh, the tax benefit of donating. So, uh, we’ve got a great show in store for you tonight and we have a couple that just celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary.
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Bruce Cherry: And she has been on the show before and told a very, very touching tale about how, uh, her mother had been told to abort her and her mother said, no.
Bruce Cherry: Absolutely not. So we’ve got at the
Vicky Cherry: tender age of 13, she knew better.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Her mom was 13 years old when she found out she was with Child. And I’m not gonna tell any more of the story. We’ve got Cheryl Hadley, along with Pastor Raymond Hadley in the studio with us, and we’ll get into the story in just a bit.
Bruce Cherry: But in the meantime, we start off always with Jeremiah one, five and prayer.
Vicky Cherry: Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born. I sanctified you. I ordained you a prophet to the nations
Bruce Cherry: Heavenly Father, we come to you. We come [00:02:00] before you once again and ask for your blessing upon this show, upon this ministry.
Bruce Cherry: Upon all who hear this show tonight and upon our guests, God thank you for them. Thank you for letting us be in service to your kingdom, to help share truth, to help save lives, and to change minds, and to educate where we know that no one has a right to disqualify and destroy a life that you have ordained to live.
Bruce Cherry: All life matters. And God, we celebrate that every week, every day of our lives, but every week with this show, and we ask you to please continue to bless us, guide us in all that we do, and we pray that tonight we change at least one heart, one mind, and we save at least one baby. We thank you and praise you in the name of your precious son, Jesus Christ, we pray.
Bruce Cherry: Amen.
Raymond: Amen. Amen.
Bruce Cherry: Alright, welcome to the show, Cheryl. Pastor, how are you too? Doing pretty good today. Thank you. 59 years,
Raymond: huh? That’s a long time.
Cheryl Hadley: Yes. [00:03:00] We’ve actually gone to been together. He was my first card date when I was 16, so, wow. That’s 63 years ago. Wow. And uh, yeah,
Bruce Cherry: and you guys are going strong. I mean, we, we see you guys, you guys are, we know Cheryl’s a saint,
Bruce Cherry: but, but you know, you guys are a great example to couples everywhere. The love that you guys have for each other and show each other. I mean, they were arguing a little bit before they came in the studio, but that was, that was, you know, it was, it was a friendly argument. It was a friendly, affectionate argument.
Vicky Cherry: That’s just 59 years of Yeah.
Bruce Cherry: Of of husband and wife. Yeah. Yeah. That’s
Vicky Cherry: just chitchat.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. So for those of you who, who may remember, Cheryl, she had been on the show about a year, year and a half ago.
Vicky Cherry: I don’t know, do you remember? She,
Bruce Cherry: it’s been a while. It’s been a while.
Vicky Cherry: It’s been a while. She’s been on a couple times.
Vicky Cherry: ’cause she’s got quite the story that matches up with. Our mission.
Bruce Cherry: I’m just gonna give a quick, quick bite of the story. Cheryl’s mom was 13 years old, was molested by a [00:04:00] relative, an uncle. An uncle wound up pregnant. The school wanted her to have an abortion. The police told her they could take her to a place where it could be done ’cause at, I believe at the time it was illegal.
Bruce Cherry: Yes. Something of that nature.
Group: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Bruce Cherry: Uh, her dad, her, her, uh, Cheryl’s grandfather. I guess it would be the young lady’s dad wanted, her, DAU wanted his daughter to have an abortion because her mom had passed away. And so the dad was trying to raise the daughter on his own and had to rely on family members to babysit while he worked.
Bruce Cherry: And so that’s how this had occurred. And I hope I didn’t confuse anyone with that, but I,
Vicky Cherry: I mean, it’s, it’s amazing that, that she knew at 13 that, that it was a child. That even though she couldn’t raise that child, which is Cheryl
Bruce Cherry: mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: She knew that that child deserved life.
Bruce Cherry: And at first she didn’t even understand the fact that she was [00:05:00] pregnant.
Vicky Cherry: Yeah. She was that innocent that And it was that long ago.
Cheryl Hadley: Correct.
Vicky Cherry: Yeah.
Cheryl Hadley: And she also as well, what we’re gonna find out when I finally met, I, I haven’t met, I didn’t meet her physically, but we talked on the phone. Mm-hmm. And. Hearing her story, uh, because she was open to tell me anything. Mm-hmm. And everything that I had.
Cheryl Hadley: Okay. So I don’t
Vicky Cherry: think any, we mentioned, and if you didn’t know the story from before Cheryl was adopted, her mother wasn’t able to keep her, she didn’t abort her, but she put her up for doctor when I was
Cheryl Hadley: six days old. Mm-hmm. Wow. And my birth mother said, I didn’t get to see you, I didn’t get to hold you at all, but.
Cheryl Hadley: They said she’s gonna be adopted. So, you know, and at six days old, my adoptive parents came and picked me up. [00:06:00] And didn’t
Vicky Cherry: she tell you that she thought of you every day and prayed for you every day? Yes.
Cheryl Hadley: She said, because she has had a son and a daughter after she got married. Mm-hmm. When she was 18. Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: And she said, but you know, I, I didn’t do that to them, but she said. For some reason she said, I prayed for you every day of my entire life.
Vicky Cherry: So listeners, remember, so many arguments are based on, well, if they’re raped, especially if it’s rape and incest. Exactly. That that child should be aborted. Exactly. And you need to know Cheryl to truly realize how great her life has been.
Vicky Cherry: Her whole life has been dedicated to Christ.
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Vicky Cherry: Her husband’s a pastor their whole life together. What is it? 59 years?
Bruce Cherry: 59 years as we
Vicky Cherry: record 59 years.
Bruce Cherry: And you’ve been a pastor’s wife for 51, 52 of those 59 [00:07:00] years, is that correct?
Speaker 6: Um, that, that, well, my full-time ministry started in 1969. You can do the math.
Raymond Hadley: Oh, he’s gonna make me do math. Okay. Let’s put the listeners in math. I was, I was an associate pastor for two years. Okay. And then I became a full-time fa pastor and, uh, we’ve been at the church where we are now since 1972.
Bruce Cherry: Let’s go ahead and give that church a plug. That’s Hope. Baptist. Hope Baptist Church in Apopka.
Bruce Cherry: In Apopka on Wawa Springs Road. And Pastor also is on staff for Liberty Church, Orlando and Altamont Springs. Yes. Where Vicky and I attend. Uh, he’s the campus pastor for Liberty Church and does visitations and things like that. So you guys have had a very defined career in service to God and his people.
Bruce Cherry: Right.
Vicky Cherry: Although Satan tried to take you out.
Cheryl Hadley: Chris protected you and you know, my birth mother said, because she said, I have never told [00:08:00] another living soul about you. She didn’t tell her husband, she didn’t tell her kids, but she said, I am, and she’s a, she was a Christian. She passed away on my adoptive father’s birthday, February 21st of this year.
Cheryl Hadley: But she, the, the days that we got to talk, she said, I, I never told anybody about you, but she said, I wanna tell you, I am so proud that God used you and that you’re married to a pastor and that you’re in the ministry for the Lord. And she was tickled to death that that. Every time she’d call, she’d ask How, how’s your husband?
Cheryl Hadley: How’s he doing? You know, and everything. So, um, that part is a blessing to me. Really a
Bruce Cherry: blessing. So now you spoke with her, you guys had a [00:09:00] regular standing phone call, like what, every week?
Cheryl Hadley: Yes. But because. Her daughter was in and out of her home. She lived next door to her. Mm-hmm. And she was kind of taking care of her.
Cheryl Hadley: Mm. Because at that time she was 92. Mm. And, uh, so she said, don’t call me. I’ll call you if that’s okay. Mm-hmm. And so, um, they still, I have not approached them. At all about this because,
Vicky Cherry: you know, it just, every time I hear and we talk about your story, I think of, oh my gosh, that rapist got away with it because we’re so worried about other people knowing and it’s, it’s sad to me, you know?
Cheryl Hadley: Well, you know, I found out, um, I have met his only living son now. Mm-hmm. So we are half brother and sister. Mm-hmm. Um, I’ve also met. [00:10:00] A niece.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: Uh, his, her mother has passed away, but it was his daughter. And through her I did find out that my birth mother was not the only lady in the family mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: That she did that did that too. Mm-hmm. Right. And so that part, and, and when I talked to my half brother about it, he said, well. My dad was so good to me and he was such a good man.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: Morally.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: He said, I can’t hardly believe all this story. So we just dropped it at that. And, you know, our, the DNA, well actually it was DNA through ancestry and I that me with these people.
Cheryl Hadley: Yeah. How you even
Vicky Cherry: found out about ’em because you didn’t
Cheryl Hadley: know
Vicky Cherry: this
Cheryl Hadley: your whole life. No. Correct. Well, I knew I was adopted. Adopted, and I knew my mother was birth mother was [00:11:00] young, but that’s about all the, and that I was born in a home for unwed mothers.
Vicky Cherry: So you just assumed it was a
Cheryl Hadley: couple that ended up pregnant?
Cheryl Hadley: Exactly. Mm-hmm. Exactly. That’s the thing that comes to your mind, you think, well, it was a guy and a girl that just went too far, got in trouble and, and so you kind of accept that all your life. My folks, my adoptive folks, they were so good to share with me early in life. I, I knew I was adopted. Like I had Hazel wise.
Cheryl Hadley: I mean, you know? Mm-hmm. It just was a fact. But then you, you know, you know, and I
Vicky Cherry: think that’s the best way I really do because Oh, I do too. I work at House of Hope and I’ve had people call Yes. And they say, well, we didn’t think we should let them know until later. And then they told ’em it has caused. An uproar it in their family
Cheryl Hadley: because when you’re young and you grow up with that fact, [00:12:00] then when you’re old enough to realize what adoption is mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: And everything, you accept it. Totally. Yeah. So you have nothing that, that I regret about any of that.
Bruce Cherry: Mm-hmm. Wow. Well, we’re up against a break, so we’ll be right back. We’re coming to you from the John Barrows Studios. It’s Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday night. Our guests in studio, our pastor and Cheryl Hadley.
Bruce Cherry: Cheryl was the product of, uh, molestation and she was born and her, her mother was encouraged to abort her. She kept her and Cheryl is alive, and here’s sharing that story with us and all who will hear it. Uh, and so we’ll get right back to her story here in just a bit. Prolife Radio on a Sunday, night on AM nine 50 FM 94.9.
Bruce Cherry: The answer.
Dave: Okay.
Bruce Cherry: Thank you sir. Cheryl? What, um, let’s, let’s, um, what would you like to share when we come back out [00:13:00] of the break here?
Cheryl Hadley: What do you want me to share? What do you, whatever you’d like
Bruce Cherry: to, uh, let’s, why don’t you tell us about how you discovered that your mom had
Vicky Cherry: Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.
Vicky Cherry: The DNA test. Yeah. All, all that I think was, yeah. ’cause you tell on ancestry com. Interesting
Speaker 6: story. She waited so long to actually research.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Don’t, don’t say anything. We’re, we’re in a break right now. This, we’re just talking to each other in here. Nobody’s hearing this. So
Vicky Cherry: you, that would be good for you to talk about.
Speaker 6: So when we come back, well, that’s what I’m saying, because she didn’t want to hurt her adoptive mother. Yeah. And say that when
Vicky Cherry: we come back, when we come back,
Bruce Cherry: we’re, yeah.
Speaker 6: So,
Bruce Cherry: okay, Dave, we’re coming back. Vicky, you’ll bring us back. Okay.
Dave: All right then. This will be our next segment starting up in a three, uh, two, uh, one.
Vicky Cherry: Welcome back to Prolife Radio on a Sunday evening. I’m Vicky Cherry. Across from me is my very handsome husband, Bruce. We’re both in pink today.
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Vicky Cherry: I love it. Our guests in the studio are, Cheryl and Raymond had Hadley. Um, a great, great couple. A, um, people that we look up [00:14:00] to for our marriage.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: Uh, just, but she has an amazing story and we’re gonna get back to that story. And I have to commend you, pastor Hadley, you have been quiet. I’ve never heard you this quiet, this a long time. Wow. That’s unusual. She’s,
Speaker 6: she’s the star of the show. She, but, uh, amen. I, I can back her up in whatever she says.
Vicky Cherry: So you started to talk about during the break about how Cheryl had waited so long because she didn’t wanna hurt her adoptive parents.
Vicky Cherry: Go ahead and Yes. And tell us about that.
Speaker 6: Well, as she said that her adoptive parents were just excellent and there was no, uh, no question about that. But her mother, I’m sure would’ve taken very deeply hurt. If she had found out that Cheryl was searching for her birth mother
.: mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: Thinking, well, she doesn’t like me anymore, or whatever.
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Uh, which is not, it was not true. But, uh, that’s when after her mom died, then, uh, she began to think about it. But it’s only now.
Bruce Cherry: Now let’s, let’s [00:15:00] clarify.
Speaker 6: After her adoptive mom passed away. Yes. Yes. After her adoptive mom passed away.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 6: Uh, she began to think about it more, and I encouraged her. So it’s been about six years ago that she started, and Ancestry was the only thing that we knew.
Speaker 6: Our only avenue of finding out. Mm-hmm. And so that’s what she did. She took the DNA test and or whatever it’s called, uh, and um, they searched then for someone, uh, like a relative.
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Speaker 6: Now that’s a story. She knows more. I, I can’t tell all the details, but it ended up they found a cousin and, um, a distant cousin and he called her.
Speaker 6: I let now he’s
Cheryl Hadley: the first cousin. First cousin. Oh, he’s the first cousin? Yes. I’ll let her go ahead with that story. Oh, right. Yeah. He notified me in Ancestry and he said, uh, I’m retired now and I’m doing a lot of genealogy. And so he [00:16:00] said, I see that we are related, but he said, I don’t know you. How are we related?
Cheryl Hadley: So he gave me his phone number. I called him. Uh, he just was enamored with the story. Mm-hmm. And he said, do you mind if I now, was
Vicky Cherry: he on your mom’s side or your dad’s side?
Cheryl Hadley: Um, my,
Vicky Cherry: my
Cheryl Hadley: birth mother’s side.
Vicky Cherry: Okay. Yes. So he wouldn’t, um, fill any Yes. You know, because I’m sure for like you were talking in the first segment about your half.
Vicky Cherry: Half-brother. Right. I’m sure he’s like, Ooh, you know, that’d be, that’d be wicked hard to take. Listen, it, it really,
Speaker 6: he also did not know her birth mother. So it was a, a new thing for him as well. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. And that’s why he was questioning Cheryl.
Cheryl Hadley: Yeah. Mm-hmm. But anyway, he, he, um, he said, do you mind if I look, I have the time, the, some of the resources [00:17:00] I can do that.
Cheryl Hadley: And I said. Yeah, go ahead please. And so, you know, ancestors or relatives came up in ancestry, but mostly cousins, distant cousins, that type of thing. Mm-hmm. And um, about two years ago he called me and he said, I think I have found your birth mother. And I said, how sure are you about this? ’cause he wanted me to contact her and I said, how sure are you?
Cheryl Hadley: And he said, oh, I’d say 70%. And I said, okay Garris, you gotta look further because it’s gotta be almost a hundred percent sure. ’cause I’m not going to step into anybody’s. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And mess with Disrupt it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so he said, okay, if you say so, you know, well then, uh, [00:18:00] months passed and he was just more sure all the time because she fit the
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Cheryl Hadley: Description. So he called her and he’s asking her, do you know I’m related to you we’re cousins. And anyway, he said, do you know of anybody. That a young girl, 13 would’ve been raped and molested by someone in her family and or whatever that she would’ve had birthed a child. And the line was very quiet and she said, yes, it was me.
Cheryl Hadley: Oh my goodness. And he said I almost fainted because, so, so he
Bruce Cherry: was talking to your birth mother?
Cheryl Hadley: Yes. Wow. Yes. He suspected it, but, and then she began to tell him some of it, and he said, well, I, anyway, he [00:19:00] explained about me a little bit. Mm-hmm. But he said, if I can, can I have her get in contact with you?
Cheryl Hadley: This young. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Old lady now, you know, but, um, so she said, yes, that’s fine. Wow. Well, and then the first time we talked, my husband was sitting over in the recliner in the living room and I was talking to her. We talked for probably an hour, and when we hung up, he said. I can’t believe it. It’s like you guys have known each other all your lives and you just talked and talked and talked.
Cheryl Hadley: Mm-hmm. And it was that kind of thing. There was a, I didn’t need to find another mother because I was so fulfilled. With the parents that I had. Mm-hmm. And they, they’re the ones [00:20:00] that in my heart mm-hmm. That was my parents. Mm-hmm. And so I didn’t have a big need to feel like I had to find my mother, my birth mother, but, and I never expected this entire thing.
Cheryl Hadley: But, but when the issue And how old
Vicky Cherry: were you at this point, Cheryl? For our listeners, if you don’t mind.
Cheryl Hadley: In the, when you, when you first, when you found
Vicky Cherry: out, when you first spoke to your
Cheryl Hadley: mom,
Vicky Cherry: to your mom,
Cheryl Hadley: 77. So your whole life, you just, you just No,
Vicky Cherry: there was no,
Cheryl Hadley: I just knew it, accepted it, whatever. Mm-hmm. But the thing that so broke my heart because
Speaker 10: I believe, I’m sorry. No, no apology
Bruce Cherry: needed.
Speaker 10: Take as much time as you need.
Speaker 6: Well, we both get tears.
Speaker 10: Mm-hmm. These little babies [00:21:00] that are born mm-hmm. To situations like this. Mm-hmm. I get so angry and I do,
Cheryl Hadley: when I hear people say, well, she was raped. We need to get rid of that baby. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: And they say evidence.
Speaker 6: Yeah. But there’s no evidence. And
Cheryl Hadley: I’m saying it’s not the baby’s fault the baby had. No, she, it’s an innocent person in this issue. And when my mother, birth mother said, when I sat there in the room. And they said, well, we feel because you’re, you’re with child.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: I don’t think they even used the word pregnant back in the forties, early forties.
Cheryl Hadley: And they said, so, you know, you [00:22:00] can’t keep that baby. You’re too young. And so the police were there because of the situation. Mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: And right there, okay, so the police are there. So rather than do their job like arrest this, well rapist they tell you to get an abortion or your mom to get an abortion.
Bruce Cherry: Well that, that was, there was that.
Bruce Cherry: But it seems like, and I recall the story ’cause Cheryl has shared this story with us a few times and, and when we go out to dinner and things like that, and it just, um, that your mom refused to identify who had That’s right. Touched her, correct.
Cheryl Hadley: Mm-hmm. And she said in all the questioning. Mm-hmm. She said in, because this aunt and uncle, when her mother passed away, when she was 11,
Bruce Cherry: they took her in.
Cheryl Hadley: Well, her dad still kept her. Yeah. But I mean, they, but they are the ones that really put their arms around her. And, and, and she babysat. She babysat there [00:23:00] 1-year-old. Mm-hmm. And, um, and would that
Vicky Cherry: be your half brother?
Cheryl Hadley: Yes. Yes.
Vicky Cherry: Yes. So your mom babysat your rapist half brother?
Cheryl Hadley: Yes.
Bruce Cherry: Her rapist.
Cheryl Hadley: Yeah. Yeah. And, and so the idea, and she said, I sat there and I thought, wait a minute.
Cheryl Hadley: No, no, no, no. What is abortion? What are you talking about? Me having abortion? And she said her teacher was trying to put it very kindly. And finally she said, well, it’s where they take your baby. She said, where they take it.
Speaker 9: Mm.
Cheryl Hadley: And she said, no, um, it dies. And she said, I was so shocked and I thought that I can’t keep this baby, but nobody is going to kill this baby.
Cheryl Hadley: And is this
Vicky Cherry: what your mom told you when you first Yes.
Cheryl Hadley: When you first talked to her, or was that after you talked a while? No, [00:24:00] it was pretty much the first, because she just accepted it and I think she was relieved. She said, thinking that I know who that little baby has become. She said to me, that’s one of the most precious things I’ve ever experienced to be able at this time in my life to realize.
Cheryl Hadley: And she said, and I’m so proud that you’re a pastor’s wife and you’re serving the Lord and you love the Lord. And she said, oh, that just thrills me so much.
Vicky Cherry: And not just that, I need to add, you are one of the kindest, warm, most warm hearted people that I’ve ever met. And your husband’s not so bad either.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you. Appreciate that. Just, just to, but I, I would agree with you also, Vicky, uh, concerning your comment about her, because [00:25:00] she’s concerned about others and our thought, uh, in this whole thing since she discovered her birth mother mm-hmm. That, uh, she wouldn’t be here, right? Mm-hmm. If her birth mother would’ve said, okay, go ahead, abort it.
Speaker 6: And who knows
Bruce Cherry: if you would be here? Oh, that’s right, because I firmly believe that the women we marry Okay. Extend our life. Yes,
Speaker 6: that’s right. I just had my 80th birthday. I know, I know. Yeah.
Bruce Cherry: So, Cheryl, when we come back, I’m gonna put you on the spot here and I’m gonna ask you if you would share your birth mother’s name with us when we come back.
Bruce Cherry: Okay? Okay. We’re gonna take a break. It is Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday night. If this story has touched your heart, think about it the next time. Someone says that someone in your life, uh, they were a victim of rape or incest, and they’re pregnant, and they say, we need to abort that child. No, that child didn’t commit a sin.[00:26:00]
Bruce Cherry: That child is not guilty of a thing. Amen. You should not allow the sins of the father and or the mother be visited on the child. That’s right in that form. So,
Vicky Cherry: and to know that at a young age of 13, that woman, that young woman
Bruce Cherry: knew,
Vicky Cherry: knew that it was a baby,
Bruce Cherry: got it on her heart. Mm-hmm. Like he does everyone, like he does everyone.
Bruce Cherry: We’ll be right back with more Pro-Life Radio and details on how you can help keep this radio show and this ministry on the air. Thank you for joining us tonight. We know you got a lot of things to do this last week of 2025. Wow. And we thank you for making time to spend it with us Pro-Life Radio, coming up more of it on AM nine 50 FM 94.9.
Bruce Cherry: They answer streaming on the answer orlando.com and okay. Alright.
Speaker 6: We have discussed, Cheryl and I have discussed the matter of, uh, telling others about this, and Betty has even [00:27:00] said, uh, well after I die, you can tell. Mm-hmm. But we’re thinking she had 25 grandchildren. And, uh, we can also mention that if, if you want, that’s fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And our reason for not going up there and meeting her in person, some of this family would say, who’s this? Oh, she’s just pulling your leg. That, that’s not true. It can’t be her.
Bruce Cherry: And why would she be, I mean, there’s nothing for you to gain. You’re not in the will. Right. You know, and, and who knows? I mean,
Speaker 6: so Betty didn’t, she was torn because she really wanted to meet us in person, but she said there is a problem.
Speaker 6: My family’s not all Christians.
Vicky Cherry: I think we should tell all this on the air. Yeah,
Bruce Cherry: yeah. Slow down. Let’s, let, let, I’m gonna, I’m gonna ask you Betty’s full name, and if you’re comfortable sharing that, please do. I’m
Cheryl Hadley: gonna give you her maiden name. That’s fine. Yeah, that’s fine. Uh,
Vicky Cherry: yeah. ’cause and we are, we have [00:28:00] started to do, um,
Bruce Cherry: video.
Vicky Cherry: The video. So it goes on our Facebook. Oh. And so if you want to show the, uh, camera your picture, you can. Okay. I think it would be kind of cool. Anyway,
Bruce Cherry: I’m gonna take a sip of water while we’re in this break. Dave will be ready in just a second. Okay.
Dave: Do what you gotta do.
Speaker 6: But my goal, and I think it’s Cheryl’s also about even doing this pro program. We don’t know how many thousands of people. Cool.
Bruce Cherry: Hold that thought. Okay. We wanna share that on the air and, and we’re in break right now. Well, I’m just sharing with you what I’d like to share. No, no, that’s, no. Share it, but share it on the air.
Bruce Cherry: Do
Vicky Cherry: you need a paper write down so you don’t forget?
Bruce Cherry: Mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: No.
Bruce Cherry: Okay. Alright then Dave, I think we’re ready.
Dave: All right, then. This is gonna be our third segment in 3, 2, 1.
Bruce Cherry: And we’re back Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday [00:29:00] night from the John Barrows studio. I missed that guy.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Cherry: I do.
Speaker 9: What a warrior.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Yeah. Hey, uh, it’s Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday night with our guest instead of first, first of all, my lovely wife, Vicky Cherry, across me, Bruce Cherry.
Bruce Cherry: And our guest tonight, pastor and Cheryl Hadley. Cheryl has shared her story, uh, a couple of times now on this, on this show, and has spoken at churches around the community and, uh, and spoke at, uh, at some, uh, pro-life, uh, events. And, uh, and we thank you both for being here. Really do, and some Republican party.
Bruce Cherry: And some Republican party events. Cheryl and Pastor have just celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary.
Vicky Cherry: You know, I did wanna throw ’em when we’re talking about where you’ve shared Cheryl, the reason I, I wanna point this out ’cause it’s important. Even in our conservative Republican parties, um, there’s still people that think there should be exceptions for rape.
Vicky Cherry: And so, [00:30:00] no, it’s a baby. Doesn’t matter, it’s father’s history. Doesn’t matter if he’s a criminal, if he’s a good guy. It’s the baby we’re talking about. It’s their life.
Bruce Cherry: You know, if you really want to liken slavery, and abortion is to similar issues at different times in the history of this country. There was no exception for slavery.
Bruce Cherry: It was like, oh no, I don’t believe in slavery. Except in the case of how does that, how would that make sense? Mm-hmm. So. No, I don’t believe in killing a child. Oh. Except in the case of, no, it doesn’t make sense. Should never ever happen. No, never happen. So Cheryl, I promised I was gonna put you on the spot here.
Bruce Cherry: Your mother’s name.
Cheryl Hadley: Her name was Batty Elkins. Elkins. Elkins. Okay. Uhhuh. Um, and you have a picture of her? Yes. Yes. She sent me a picture, [00:31:00] she sent me some pictures of part of her 25 grandchildren. Oh my goodness. Uh, she sent me a picture of my half-brother and half sister, who are her son and daughter. And, um, the thing is, I think.
Cheryl Hadley: Actually, I did send her a picture of the pastor and I Oh, okay. My husband and I.
Vicky Cherry: Okay. And, and another added thing is they adopted a son.
Cheryl Hadley: Yes. Mm-hmm. Yes. We have a very wonderful son that, that we adopted. But, um, she had my picture, our picture sitting on a table by her recliner mm-hmm. In her house. Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: When her daughter came over, she said, um, picked up the picture and she said, mom, [00:32:00] who is this? And she’s Betty’s my birth mother. Mm-hmm. Said to me, Cheryl, I lied, but I said, um, that’s a niece of mine, because she said, I did not want. To bring that up at that time.
.: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: Because my children, grandchildren, they do not know about you.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: And so she said, my daughter’s looking at the picture, and she said, wow, she has to be close relation to you. Because I mean, when you were that age
Speaker 9: mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: You really looked a lot alike.
Speaker 9: Wow. And,
Cheryl Hadley: and Betty said, I just, I thought, okay, let’s drop it. Let, let’s move on. Go to something else here.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Cheryl Hadley: So, and, and the thankful thing that I feel, she was very cognizant mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: About her physical health was [00:33:00] not real great, but, uh, she was very coherent in her thinking and everything. And again,
Bruce Cherry: she was 92. Yeah, I was, I was just gonna say at 92, your physical health is going to Yes. Going to wane. But if you’re still sharp, I mean, that’s what you can, yes. Yeah. Yeah. So.
Vicky Cherry: Pastor, you had some things you wanted to share and we told you to wait till the show, not during the break.
Speaker 6: Well, um, there are several things, but uh, we don’t have time for all of them. Sure, we do. Go
Bruce Cherry: ahead.
Speaker 6: They’ll, they’ll cut us off the air, uh, once I get started, you know.
Vicky Cherry: Oh, we’ll shut you down.
Speaker 6: Uh, but Cheryl and I have experienced this, um, and. Especially, lemme go back to when, uh, we got acquainted on a blind date that that’s another story we won’t even start on.
Speaker 6: But nonetheless, um, we, we ended up, wait
Vicky Cherry: a sec, I
Cheryl Hadley: have to ask a question. What was your [00:34:00] first thought, Cheryl? Well, you know, when my mother said if he was driving, we were doubling with the man, the guy that in. Got us together. And my mother said, if he does not come up to the door and meet us, you are not going.
Cheryl Hadley: And I said, but Mom, how is he gonna know that? I mean, and she said, if he’s any kind of a gentleman, he knows it. He will come up to the door. And so,
Speaker 6: and I said to Larry, the, our mutual friend Larry, come on up and introduce us. He said, no. She’s your date. I said, come on. He wouldn’t do it. So I said to her dad, when he o he came to the door, uh, hi, I’m now remember I’m only 17.
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Hi, I’m, uh, Raymond Hadley and I have a date with your daughter. What else am I gonna say? [00:35:00] Did he go get the shotgun when he seen you And he accepted
Bruce Cherry: that? Yeah. And so did. Her mom stopped. Well, ’cause he came to the door and he introduced himself.
Vicky Cherry: Yeah.
Bruce Cherry: Did you shake his hand? I don’t remember. I don’t remember.
Bruce Cherry: Okay.
Vicky Cherry: He probably was scared to death. Yes, exactly. But from
Speaker 6: then on, uh, who knew Blind Date is it gonna last? Mm-hmm. Is this an only date?
Bruce Cherry: No. I seem to recall something and I, and I don’t want to, I don’t wanna get too far off track here ’cause I know you were trying to make a point, but I seem to recall you telling us something about, weren’t you in a Boy Scout uniform?
Speaker 6: Oh, I was, yes. Larry and I both were mutual friends in the scouting from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts to Explorers. To the order of the arrow. Mm-hmm. And
Bruce Cherry: so order for those of you who don’t know Order of the Arrow is like the National Honor Society for the Boy Scouts.
Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah. And I had my, if you knew anything about it, you wear a white sash with a red arrow.
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Pointed up. Now if her par, I didn’t even think about, I’ve got this sash on and her dad [00:36:00] comes to the door, who do
Bruce Cherry: you think you are? Beauty Queen got this, arrow, got this. No, back then, back then her dad probably knew exactly. Ly I’m, anyway, I’m sure he did. Yeah. Will.
Speaker 6: We know you’re not a big queen, but that’s when it began.
Speaker 6: That’s when it began. It was
Bruce Cherry: a, a wonderful relationship. Yes. So, so your original thought that we disrupted and I’m sorry. So go ahead please.
Speaker 6: Okay. Where was I? Um, okay. Throughout the years, uh, we had a great relationship. I had a great relationship with her family and she had a great relationship with my family.
Speaker 6: And as far as adoption, I don’t remember us even discussing it that much when we were dating, but I’m gonna jump ahead a few years. Uh, when we did get married and we wanted a child of course, and for seven years, uh, we had none by natural birth. Mm-hmm. So we said, well, let’s try adoption. So [00:37:00] that’s what we did.
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. And we got a son. And, uh, there’s more to that story, but I want to get to one thing. Uh, we were very careful to allow him the knowledge mm-hmm. That he was adopted mm-hmm. And what it meant. Mm-hmm. And throughout his childhood, uh, he was proud of it. In fact, I think even today he’s 53.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah, I, I know, I know Ray Junior.
Speaker 6: He’s, he’s a great guy. He’s been over
Bruce Cherry: there
Speaker 6: and we, uh, when we part, we hug each other, you know? Mm-hmm. He hugs, uh, Cheryl, and he hugs me and there’s a great relationship because we allowed him to know. Exactly how he came into being.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: And, uh, through the years, he, he would be riding his bicycle down the street, coming, uh, towards, and I’m out in the yard, perhaps, uh, uh, working the yard.
Speaker 6: And, uh, he, he was one time he was saying, [00:38:00] dad, dad, dad, tell these guys, it’s his friends. Tell these guys I’m adopted. I’m adopted, so I want, well, and the, the point is, uh, that. You need to be honest with them. Mm-hmm. And they need to be real realizing what is necessary, uh, to know
Cheryl Hadley: well, and I’ve heard so many people say, well, if you go ahead and have this child, this illegitimate child.
Cheryl Hadley: It’s not gonna have a good time. It’s not gonna be adopted. Well, you know, adoption is not good. When I was in seventh grade and my best friend wa walked to the her house to pick her up for school, to walk back to school, and her mother said, boy, you really started something. And I’m like, what’d I do? And she [00:39:00] said.
Cheryl Hadley: Sharon, that was my girlfriend. Mm-hmm. She said she won’t even talk to me today, didn’t talk to me yesterday. And they were very close, mother and daughter. And I said, what caused this? Okay. I said, what are you talking about? She said, she came in, you had told her that you were adopted. And she asked me, mom, what exactly is adoption?
Cheryl Hadley: So I told her, and she looked at me and she said, well, see you, Cheryl is far more loved than I am. Oh my God. And she said, what do you mean? She said, well, she was chosen and you just had me. And so that became a real issue with her. Oh
Speaker: my goodness.
Cheryl Hadley: And so, so it. And it’s true because my folks [00:40:00] and me, we had such a good relationship and no, it wasn’t perfect.
Cheryl Hadley: And I mean, they made me toe the line, but mm-hmm. Um,
Vicky Cherry: we don’t know what the future’s gonna be. No. And so when exactly the people that are the women that are pregnant, and they have all these excuses why they can’t put that baby up for adoption. Well, what if it gets a bad home? Well, what if it gets a good home?
Vicky Cherry: You know, you, you just, you just don’t know what God has planned.
Cheryl Hadley: That’s right.
Vicky Cherry: And I don’t think Raymond got to any of his thoughts that he was gonna talk about.
Bruce Cherry: He’s, he’s looking at his notes. I see that
Vicky Cherry: over there. So you better hop.
Speaker 6: We
Vicky Cherry: got a little bit of time.
Speaker 6: Um, well the other one, this is kind of jumping to another thing, but Cheryl and I would like to be available for anyone, like in the church or.
Speaker 6: Uh, another setting, some, another event or something of that nature, uh, to be able to share the story because [00:41:00] mm-hmm. Every time we’ve spoken mm-hmm. There have been women that have come up to Cheryl and said, that’s my story.
.: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: But I’ve never told it. So it, it opens a door for those who are listening.
Speaker 6: We’re not condemning those also who have had an abortion. Hmm. Uh, we’ll get into that, uh, next time. That’s,
Bruce Cherry: that’s my
Speaker 6: line.
Bruce Cherry: Oh, that’s your line. We’ve got a break coming up. We are talking with Pastor Raymond and his lovely wife, Cheryl Hadley about how precious life is, and Cheryl is proof of that. And we’ll be right back with more Pro-Life Radio, this Christmas week edition, actually the New Year’s week edition.
Bruce Cherry: ’cause this is the last show of the year. Mm-hmm. So, uh, we’ll be right back on. AM nine 50 FM 94.9. The answer. Okay.
Vicky Cherry: Okay. We have one more segment.
Speaker 6: [00:42:00] Um, I was wondering about, uh, do you promote. Contacting. Yeah. Yes. Prolife. No, we can contact you directly.
Vicky Cherry: Yeah, they can contact you directly. So just, you know, just,
Speaker 6: I don’t know.
Speaker 6: In these days, do you give out, I would say I give out.
Bruce Cherry: Give out your, uh, email address.
Speaker 6: Email address?
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Give out your email address. Okay. Email address is the easiest thing for people to look for. Um, because phone numbers are so, you got so many words. If you look at a number, a phone number, like words, it’s 10 words.
Bruce Cherry: Whereas an email address is one or two words.com
Speaker: you know? I see. So
Bruce Cherry: at, at such and such.com. So I would say give out your email address or they can contact Vicky and I and we’ll, we’ll get with you. Okay.
Speaker 6: Let’s, let’s do that.
Bruce Cherry: Okay.
Speaker 6: And that way, okay.
Bruce Cherry: Uh, ‘
Speaker 6: cause I got three email addresses and I don’t know which one to choose.
Speaker 6: Uh, you could do the
Bruce Cherry: Liberty Church one. You could do, do you have a Hope Baptist email address? [00:43:00]
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I don’t check it very often. Well, then Don, don’t do that one.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Which one do you check the most?
Speaker 6: Um, please. Are
Speaker 6: Cheryl just out into that’s, or maybe
Vicky Cherry: you wanna just give your phone? I mean, it doesn’t really matter. I dunno. It should be, or it’s whatever you’re comfortable with. Is that,
Bruce Cherry: would you rather
Cheryl Hadley: give your phone number? I wouldn’t give my phone number, but don’t, whatever.
Speaker 6: I don’t know. What do you think?
Cheryl Hadley: It’s public?
Cheryl Hadley: It’s on the, the church bulletin back?
Bruce Cherry: Yeah, you, you know what? We can tell ’em to contact Prolife Radio and we’ll, we’ll get ’em in touch with you. Okay. We can do that. Yeah. If you’re more comfortable with that, that’s fine. Yeah. Okay.
Vicky Cherry: And Prolife Radio. Where, what email are you using?
Bruce Cherry: I’m just gonna have a, uh, they can go to, actually
Vicky Cherry: Scott is checking our emails.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah.
Vicky Cherry: So we could do the pro-life radio that’s on the, at, uh,
Bruce Cherry: at prolife radio dot. Uh, no. Um.
Vicky Cherry: Scott, are you the listening?
Bruce Cherry: Hey Scott.
Dave: I’m not quite sure where he’s at. [00:44:00] Um,
Speaker 6: but our personal one, RBCA Hadley at yahoo dot
Bruce Cherry: RBCA? Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: R two R initials oh RBC hadley@yahoo.com. At Yahoo. That’s our personal address. Uh, email. Okay. We’ll we do that. I’ll probably check that one the most. Let’s just
Bruce Cherry: do that one. We’ll do that one. That’s fine.
Speaker 6: But they can also contact Prolife.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, vicky@proliferadio.com.
Group: I don’t remember if this or is.
Bruce Cherry: I think it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Be sure it’s the correct one.
Bruce Cherry: Well, we’ve had like two or three, and we had to because we couldn’t get the exact email address we wanted to. What, what do you have? Let’s pro
Group: Josh.
Vicky Cherry: Sure. Oh, you know what? I have a card. Duh, duh. That might work. Just use that one. What? What else
Speaker 6: do you have?
Vicky Cherry: There we go. That’s Bruce, whatever they asked me. What is my email on, I guessBruce@pro-liferadio.com?
Bruce Cherry: [00:45:00] Is there anything and then yours is Vicky at Pro Dash Life Radio. We’ve left
Dave: out. Bruce, is it hot in here?
Group: A little bit.
Dave: A little bit. It gets a little warm, especially when it’s cool outside because then it doesn’t quite trigger the air conditioning. But uh, the AC is set to on so you are at least getting air blowing in there regardless of it. Or it should be on at least.
.: Oh yeah. It’s blowing
Bruce Cherry: in, but it’s just not
.: Okay.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Keeping up with the room. Let’s go that. In fact, we got more people in here than we usually do, so, okay. Wasn’t
Vicky Cherry: there some other points that you wanted to say something about when you guys talked to her mom or something? I don’t. You were talking about something and then we never went back to it.
Bruce Cherry: This is the last segment, everybody, so,
Vicky Cherry: yes. So this is the one we need to put whatever we want.
Bruce Cherry: Okay.
Cheryl Hadley: Well ask whatever you want.
Bruce Cherry: Vicky, you’re bringing us back.
Dave: All right, let’s go. This will be our fourth and final segment starting up in a three, A two, uh, one,
Vicky Cherry: and welcome back to Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday evening, the [00:46:00] last weekend of 2025.
Vicky Cherry: Wow. Do we have flying cars yet like we thought we would in the Jensen Jetsons? No, they
Bruce Cherry: have them, but they won’t. They won’t. They won’t let you have one. Won’t let you have one because Well, I mean, think about it. You’ve been on I four in the afternoons. Yeah.
Vicky Cherry: I mean, where would they get, yeah. Anyway,
Bruce Cherry: yeah, flying cars, there’d be all kinds of carnage all over the place.
Bruce Cherry: So we are
Vicky Cherry: in the future, right? Yeah, we are. So I’m Vicky Cherry across from me as my very handsome husband, Bruce. Hello. And you are in heirs of that payment that you talk about from me saying that all the time. All time. Oh, yeah.
Bruce Cherry: I owe her 12 kisses a day for that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I’m, I’m, I’m behind today. So, yeah.
Vicky Cherry: And in the studio we have Cheryl and Raymond Hadley. And we are so glad that you’re here telling your story. We thought today would be a great way to end the year finishing up your story. ’cause we’ve, we’ve kind of let our listeners through your story because when you first came out, I think you talked, I mean, we want people to know that just because a woman is raped, that does [00:47:00] not mean that that child has to die.
Speaker 6: Amen. Right?
Vicky Cherry: And so that kind of started the story and then as we started, ’cause we’ve been two years and you started talking to you and finding out this. Right about the same time as the show started. So we’ve kinda led the story through. So we thought, okay, so you, you got to talk to your mom, you’ve talked to her weekly, you brought in pictures of her.
Vicky Cherry: Um, and the, there is a great resemblance, but so it’s a great, somehow we can’t get
Speaker 6: the pictures through the microphone. No.
Bruce Cherry: You know, if it’s up to you guys, but we could put them on the website. The pro. Life radio.com website so folks could, could see them. We could get them on there. We could do that. If, if you decide you wanna do that, that’s up to you.
Bruce Cherry: That’s fine. We could do that. That’s a, that’s a it, it’s a private thing, you know, so if you, if you decide you don’t wanna do it, we understand. But I think, uh, folks would like to see that. Mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: I think
Bruce Cherry: we would.
Vicky Cherry: So I’m gonna give you, um, and I’m gonna let Raymond give you his. Direct contact, but if you ever wanna call, uh, to contact us [00:48:00] through email here at the Pro-Life Radio, we do have a website and it is pro life radio.com.
Vicky Cherry: And we also have emails that are connected to that. Mm-hmm. Of course. Mine is Vicky with A-Y-V-I-C-K y@pro-liferadio.com. Bruce’s, same as, but his is Bruce. So I’m gonna let Pastor Hadley tell his part, but we are also on Facebook. We have a, a Facebook page. Oh. So they kick
Bruce Cherry: us off.
Vicky Cherry: Yeah. And so Scott, uh, one of our great friends and he runs the Facebook and he, um.
Vicky Cherry: Puts out little shorts and he’ll probably put some out of this. Mm-hmm. And so he’s, um, on the Pro Dash Life Radio. Mm-hmm. Um, Facebook
Bruce Cherry: now if you have a, a, a club a, a a group, um, um, a fellowship, a Bible study, what have you, and you would like to meet Cheryl and, and Pastor Hadley and hear her story up close and personal, you can reach out to, uh, pastor and Cheryl [00:49:00] Hadley.
Bruce Cherry: RBCA, Hadley, H-A-D-L-E-Y, at yahoo.com. That’s RBCA, Hadley, and Hadley is spelled H-A-D-L-E y@yahoo.com. And, uh, Cheryl has gone around and shared her story. You, you’ve spoken at the. Um, you’ve spoken at, uh, some sec rec events from when I was chairman, chairman of the Republican Party in Seminole County. I think you spoke at Orange County, didn’t you?
Bruce Cherry: Yes, I did. And you’ve spoken at, and I spoke Lake County up in Lake Lake County. Lake Lake County, yes. And, uh, did you speak at the Florida Republican Assembly also
Vicky Cherry: F-R-A-F-R-A? No. No. No,
Bruce Cherry: no. Well, we’re gonna, you’re gonna have to get in touch, get in touch with Lou and say what are you, what are you doing?
Bruce Cherry: You slacking there, what’s going on? But pro-life with Michelle. Herzog with Michelle Herzog. Yeah. Spoken at her events. Yes. Mm-hmm. So, uh, pastor and Cheryl are available to, uh, to talk with you and, uh, to share the story and the price is [00:50:00] right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You feed them and they’re good to go. You know, just, uh, I, I, I have to share something that a lot of people don’t know ’cause Pastor and Cheryl are very good friends of ours, and as I mentioned, we all attend, uh, Liberty Church together.
Bruce Cherry: Pastor and pastor married Vicky, and, and I.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Bruce Cherry: On the beach.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Cherry: New Smyrna Beach, Valentine’s Day, two years ago.
.: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Cherry: And, um, so they have a very dear place in our hearts. And I meant what I said about you guys are a great example to couples because, um, people are encouraged, people are getting married today if they’re being counseled properly.
Bruce Cherry: Right. They’re encouraged to find couples who have made it. Amen. And I think 59 years means you’ve made it. They’re encouraged to find people who’ve made couples who’ve made it and look at them as an example. And you guys have been a stellar example to us, and we thank you for that. Well, I appreciate
Speaker 6: that.
Bruce Cherry: It’s, it’s, it’s absolutely true. And furthermore, and I, I hope Brandy, our daughter’s not [00:51:00] listening tonight, um, the wedding photo that, uh, that pastor took of Vicky and I kissing on the beach after we got married. It’s our
Group: favorite picture. It’s beautiful.
Vicky Cherry: It really is beautiful. It’s great. And he took it with a, she did such a great job with all the other pictures she did, but for some reason that one.
Vicky Cherry: He had just got a new phone, I think, and he just snapped it. And my address is blowing in the wind. The wind was blowing just right. And, and, and just the way we’re standing, we need to put
Bruce Cherry: that on our website too. We, we should put that on there. We, we
Vicky Cherry: do
Bruce Cherry: need to. Uh, so, but, uh, yeah, so we
Vicky Cherry: only have like seven minutes left.
Bruce Cherry: Oh my. So pastor, what, what do you have to share with us?
Speaker 6: Well, our goal also, and I think Cheryl would agree that, uh, the main thing is this issue. Today where so many people are saying, well, if you were raped or mm-hmm. By incest or whatever, you need to just get rid of the baby. Mm-hmm. Uh, no, they don’t usually call it baby.
Speaker 6: Right. The, the pregnancy tissue [00:52:00] or whatever word they’re using. Mm-hmm. And our opinion is no. Um, and they say, well, we can’t support it. We didn’t want this baby, whatever, and it happened by, uh, accident and whatever. Well. There are pregnancy centers, and I think there has to be a word said about that.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6: Uh, there are a number of pregnancy centers. If you’re interested, we have the information about someone near you where we can recommend that, uh, go to the pregnancy center. They are concerned about helping you in this matter. Do not kill that baby. Yep. That’s as simple as it is. Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: And I wanna say.
Cheryl Hadley: I got one birthday card in my life from my birth mother, and in it one thing she says, please thank your parents for raising you [00:53:00] for me. And she signs it with love to all Betty, mom and grandma.
.: Hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: And um. I thought that was really, really sweet. And the verse says, made the love of God to fill your life and warm your heart on your birthday.
Cheryl Hadley: But above God, she’s put Mom. And so even though our relationship was, she respected my adoptive parents. Mm-hmm. And even though we weren’t together. Our lives, uh, to know that she did care. Mm-hmm. She couldn’t keep that baby. And I think that’s one of the focuses that we have to have that little baby that’s in that child.
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: Maybe, [00:54:00] I mean, some of these, these young women are so young, they’re confused. They’re, they’ve had really sad experiences. Mm-hmm. But they’ve got to say, God, this is your child and you, I’m gonna have it.
.: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: You take it and care for it, the rest of its life and, uh. I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have friends like you to have lived to gone to college, to been in music, to, to have met the people I’ve met and to do the things that I have done.
Cheryl Hadley: I mean, it has just been, I look back and I think God has given me such a wonderful, full, happy life, and there’s just no words for that, you know? And I think people that are, are saying, ha, abort this baby. [00:55:00] What if it’s you? Mm-hmm. Would you want to, to have lived your life?
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
Cheryl Hadley: Would you have wanted to, to experience the things you always have?
Cheryl Hadley: Of course. And it’s just, to me, it’s very close to my heart. I mean, it’s me. And so I do thank the Lord for. The even the privilege to be able to speak now.
Speaker 6: Amen. And there’s one more quick thought and that is we may be s speaking to somebody that’s listening that says, uh, you don’t know my life. I was adopted and I’ve had a horrible life.
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Yes. We know that sometimes happens. If you are in a position like that today, give us a call, email. Maybe I can help you through the word of God and help you with through the problem that you’re having, because we know that that does sometimes exist. So [00:56:00] just that thought. Yeah.
Vicky Cherry: Christ never said we wouldn’t have problems.
Vicky Cherry: That’s right. But he’s there with us in those problems. But at least if you have life, you have a chance. Amen. If you don’t have life, there is no chance.
Bruce Cherry: Right. You know, all of us are broken vessels, all of us. We’re not perfect, none of us. And yes, life is not easy as, as our daughter, Brandy says, adulting is so hard.
Bruce Cherry: Yeah. Yeah, it is. But the alternative, un, unless you’ve got God in your life, the alternative is unthinkable. And um, I think the problem is we talk to a lot of people about abortion who don’t have faith. They don’t know God, they don’t have faith or they know God and they don’t have any faith. Uh, ’cause I believe there are two, two totally different things.
Bruce Cherry: You can know God. I mean,
Vicky Cherry: Satan knows
Bruce Cherry: God. Satan knows God. Mm-hmm. Doesn’t, doesn’t have faith in him, doesn’t worship it. Um, I believe you can know God but not have faith. And I think you [00:57:00] need to have both. You need to have knowledge of God, and have faith in his word. Yes. And God will pull us through.
Speaker 6: Amen.
Bruce Cherry: And. It is wrong. And I can tell you this because I know the pain personally, it is wrong to make a child suffer for your shortcomings.
Speaker 6: That’s right.
Bruce Cherry: It’s just wrong and no one should do it. And if there is someone out there listening tonight who finds themselves in what is called a crisis pregnancy, and you don’t know where to turn, there are people ready to help you.
Bruce Cherry: There are pregnancy centers, yes. Ready to help you.
Vicky Cherry: Adoption places.
Bruce Cherry: Adoption places like nightlight, adoption service,
Vicky Cherry: and we will be having soon, a lady from Nightlight, it’s actually called Snowflake. And these are babies that were created through IVF and they have set up an adoption through nightlight.
Vicky Cherry: Is that what it’s called? Nightlight Adoption services? [00:58:00] Yes. And it’s kind of the arm of nightlight adoption services. And they take those embryos, ’cause those are babies. A lot of people with IVF does do not understand that those are created human beings and they’re frozen. And so what happens to all those babies?
Vicky Cherry: They’re usually just discarded.
.: Mm-hmm.
Vicky Cherry: So they have where you can adopt those babies.
Bruce Cherry: Mm-hmm. And we’re gonna have them on, and we’ll talk about that. We are just about out of time. We’ve got 30 seconds. Oh my.
Vicky Cherry: Did you have something you wanted to say? Oh,
Speaker 6: no, I was pointing to the time. Oh, okay.
Bruce Cherry: Okay. I got that.
Bruce Cherry: I got that. Thank you all so much. God bless you. Thank you for being here, pastor and Cheryl, thank you for sharing, for inviting us. Thank you all for listening in 2025. We look forward to keeping the show on the air in 2026, and we look forward to changing hearts, changing minds, saving babies. Uh, just introducing you to Christ.
Bruce Cherry: Amen. We thank you all for joining us. We thank Dave [00:59:00] Ika and the next studio over. Thank you, Dave. We love you and, uh, we thank you all and just let me say goodnight. This is Pro-Life Radio in AM nine 50 FM 94.9. The answer.