(Seguin) – An organization designed to protect the lives of women and their babies is inviting the community to celebrate its future home and expansion of services. The South Texas Pregnancy Care Center will be hosting its annual Walk for Life Rally this Saturday at Hillcrest Church.
Executive Director Janice Weaver wants participants to take note of the change in location for the fundraiser. The group had originally planned to hold the event on its newly purchased property located next door to the DPS office at 1348 E. Kingsbury St. Weaver says wet grounds and the chance for even more rain this Saturday has forced the group to relocate indoors. Despite this change, Weaver says the non-profit group is excited about sharing the good news of its future location during this weekend’s event.
“This property will be ours. So, we’ve been looking for four years for a place where we can expand, and we’ve looked at several different properties. We’ve looked for existing buildings and we finally found a place where we can have our new home. So, we are going to be looking at the future of a building program and we are going to build a new center at this place,” said Weaver.
Weaver says all events including the actual walk are still on and encourages folks to sign-up.
“Just like any other Walk for Life or fundraiser, what we are doing is we are encouraging people to make donations themselves or to get sponsors who will sponsor them for the walk. We are going to register at 10 o’clock. We will have an information table set up that tell about our future building and about the services that we are doing now. We are also giving away free t-shirts to those who come and participate,” said Weaver. “We’ve got a Bluegrass band, the McQueeney Baptist Church Bluegrass Band will be entertaining. We have a photo booth that is set up like a construction site. We are providing coffee and lemonade from Court Street Coffee. We have breakfast tacos coming and we are just excited to have people come to show that they are prolife and what that means.”
The center for the last few years has provided free services to all women at its location at 975 W. Court Street. The mission of the pregnancy care center is to save babies and restore families. The non-profit is an “affiliate of Heartbeat International, a life affirming evangelistic ministry dedicated to educating and encouraging people to choose life, to make positive sexual choice and to bring healing to those affected by abortion.”
The local center is also known for assisting and supporting women throughout their pregnancies. This may include providing clothing, diapers or other things that a mother might need.
More importantly, Weaver says the local center continues to work around the clock for those women who think they are too late or who think they can’t change their minds.
“Some of the things that people don’t know is that right now, the abortion procedure that is being pushed is a set of pills and it’s called an abortion pill. You are given those pills and you go home and take them alone and there is a reversal process and so we are part of the abortion pill rescue network so that if you are a young mother and you think you just can’t have this baby whatever your circumstance is and you take that first pill and then before you take the second one, you are going, wait, what am I doing? Then, you can could call this abortion pill rescue network and could be connected with us and we can help you go through some steps. It involves a prescription of progesterone which is something that has been around since the 1950s to help women protect their pregnancies so it’s very possible. We are having about a 68 percent save rate if we can get to those clients early – also going into the schools and we are teaching in schools about teen pregnancy and about STD’s and about relationships and sexting and those kinds of things, so we really expanded our programs and we’ve got a lot to offer our community,” said Weaver.
The Walk for Life will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Again, the location for the fundraiser has changed and will now be held at Hillcrest Church located across from Walmart at 1440 Eastwood Dr.