Mary Comm is the wife of Joel Comm, and the mother of Zach and Jenna Comm. She is also the master (!) of Socrates…our adorable, Yorkshire Terrier and the smallest–and furriest member of the family. Mary was a homeschooling mother for many years and has celebrated the recent graduation of her oldest child, Zach, from High School.
An author, speaker and ministry director for many years, Mary has had the privilege of making an impact on the body of Christ (the Church) regarding the number of individuals within Christendom who have been wounded by abortion. Unlike many other pro-life Christians, Mary is not politically motivated. Her philosophy is that we are to be the hands and feet of Jesus, loving everyone, accepting everyone, and offering them the grace, mercy, forgiveness, hope, healing and restoration provided by relationship with Jesus Christ. Mary does not believe in protesting, picketing, judging, condemning, manipulating or intimidating others where the issue of abortion is concerned.
Mary is the Founder and Director of In Our Midst Ministries. In Our Midst was established to raise awareness about and to cultivate compassion for those that have been wounded by abortion, and to assist and equip the Church and parachurch organizations to develop in-house abortion recovery ministries.
Mary is the author of Secret Sin: When God’s People Choose Abortion, published by Morgan James Publishing, 2006 and Building Bridges: Paving the Way for Partnering with the Churches in Your Area, Morgan James Publishing 2008. She became involved in abortion recovery in 1996 when she founded SafeHaven Ministries, Inc., an online peer-support site for the abortion-minded and the post-abortive. Mary has been featured on various radio programs including Focus on the Family’s Family News in Focus and Moody Radio’s Midday Connection. Mary resides in Loveland, Colorado with her husband and two children.
Contact Information:
Mary Comm
In Our Midst Ministries, Inc.
1151 Eagle Drive, Suite 325
Loveland, CO 80537
Phone: 970.663.9596
Email: marycomm(at sign)gmail.com
URLs: www.InOurMidst.com
Mary Comm is an Author, Speaker and Ministry Director. Founder of In Our Midst Ministries, Mary's passion is to help those who have been wounded by some of the deepest hurts of life to find hope, peace and healing in Jesus Christ. Years ago Mary participated in an abortion decision involving a friend (which changed her life forever), and through which she has acquired a deep compassion and love for others wounded by an abortion decision. To learn more about Mary and her ministry, visit her
Hi Mary,
I just finished your book Secret Sin. I read it in 3 hours and could not put it down. A good friend of mine Linda Cochrane told me I needed to read it. Linda and I are co-laborers in the cpc world. I work as an Executive Director for a Care Net Pregnancy Center here in Conn. After I finished the book I gave it to one of the pastors in my church. You are so right, their are walking wounded in the churches and no body cares. If they do, they are not sure how to handle it and or talk about it.
I am post abortive myself. God showed me his heart when I lived in Chicago and that’s when I entered the world of the crisis pregnancy center. At first I went kicking and screaming, telling God(can you believe the nerve of me!) are you sure you have the right one here? So with months of prayer and a deep breath, I left the cosmetics industry to talk with pregnant women. Okay, it was a lot of prayer, come on who am I kidding, I was going to leave a job where I played with make-up all day and got $1000.00 a year in free cosmetics,what women wouldn’t like that job, was I nuts or what. To make matters worse I left the Dept Store 2 weeks before Christmas, thee biggest time of commission and sales! People thought I lost my mine.
Interesting thing happen, I told 4 of the ladies at the Estee Lauder counter I was working at(which by the way I knew them for 3 years), why I was leaving(not sure I was trying to convince myself or them), but I told them I was going to work at a crisis pregnancy center and I told each of them I believe the reason God was calling me there was to tell other women of my past abortions, now mine you, this is thee very first time I said anything to anybody about my 3 abortions. My husband and I were the only ones who knew of the 3 abortions, it was a secret for almost 30 years.
Okay, back to the Lauder counter—1 lady just hugged me when I told her about my 3 abortions, 1 lady told me I was a baby killer, 1 lady just said, “it nothing anyway” and the other just rolled her eyes. Wow!!
This was the start of healing for me and I did not even know it yet!!
Anyway,while I worked in Chicago, I sat down for 2 years and wrote my life story down,(did not want to do that either), of the drugs, alcohol, suicidal thoughts, the hard core biker life style, the music industry world and now the crisis pregnancy center world. Wrote it as a movie, but wondering now about a book. We shall see what God does.
Okay, not really sure why I went into some details, but oh well, I was always a chatter box even in kindergarten, so I guess nothing as changed.
\Mary, God Bless you for this book, you have blessed my heart with your words and I hope I will be able to meet with you one day.
HIS servant for Life,
Pati Adams