(Seguin) — The South Texas Pregnancy Care Center will again be gathering families together this Saturday for a fun day of celebrating the group’s purpose as well its future endeavors.
The non-profit organization will be offering a host of free family activities as part of its annual Festival for Life. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Columbus Club of Seguin Hall.
Executive Director Janice Weaver says the event will offer plenty of fun and is sure to keep the kids busy.
“Several years ago, the South Texas Pregnancy Care Center sponsored a Walk for Life where we would invite folks to come and raise funds and walk around the square but we decided we wanted to have something a little bit more exciting to reach more people then what we were able to do with the walk and so, we came up with the idea of the Festival for Life and it is a family fun event. We are going to have live music from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Our event ends at 3 p.m. but the last hour is going to be a dessert auction. We have some fabulous desserts that are being donated by some renowned chefs in our area. We are having a rock-climbing wall. We are having bouncy houses, a big inflatable obstacle course, a dunking booth — we are going to have a photo booth and balloon animals — just a great time,’ said Weaver.
Weaver says the idea behind the event is to not only support the pregnancy care center but to invite the community over so that it can learn more about its mission. “Some people say ‘oh, well I’m not pregnant’ or ‘I don’t need your services,’ or whatever but everybody knows someone who is in need. So, we do provide free services. We do pregnancy tests and ultrasounds. We do testing for sexually transmitted infections and then we also have a baby boutique that can really serve a young family if they are in need because every time they come to see us, they earn points and then they get to buy things for their little ones and can really just outfit their entire family with things that they need when they have a little one coming or a little one that has arrived,” said Weaver.
Although most activities are free, Weaver says the group will be selling hamburgers while supplies last.
“We are going to serve a hamburger meal for $10. It’s a burger and chips and a drink and the Knights of Columbus are cooking hamburgers for us on the grill. So, it’s a grilled hamburger. It’s going to be really good,” said Weaver.
In addition to sharing its mission, the group will also be sharing details about its future location that will be opening soon. The pregnancy care center which is currently located on West Court Street will be making the move to its new future home on East Kingsbury Street next door to the Texas Department of Public Safety building. Although the center will be making the move in May, an official grand opening won’t be held until July 13th.
The Columbus Club of Seguin Hall is located at 1015 S. Austin St.