ROCKFORD, Ill., Jan. 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The January Life Breakfast (JLB) will present its annual pro-life awards at the "Respect Life Dinner" on Friday, January 15th at 7:00pm. The "January Life Breakfast" has joined forces this year with the "Respect Life Dinner" for this special one-time event held at Holy Family Church to benefit Rockford's "40 Days for Life" Campaign (call 815-398-4284 for dinner reservations).
On Friday, the JLB will present two awards:
The White Rose Award goes to the student or teen who has demonstrated outstanding activism on the life issue. This year's recipients are Jessica Foti and Theresa Gwardys who serve as co-presidents of "Voice for the Unborn" - Boylan Catholic High School's pro-life student club.
The Family Heritage Award goes to a family which reflects the life ideal through opening their hearts to children. This year's recipients are Dr. Brian and Sandra Knabe and the Knabe family.
"The January Life Breakfast" typically presents these awards at an annual event hosted by Rockford Area Lutherans For Life, the Respect Life Office -- Diocese of Rockford, the World Congress of Families and The Howard Center for Family Religion & Society.
The Life Breakfast was started 14 years ago by Lutherans for Life and Mr. & Mrs. Kent and Jean Heise. Mrs. Heise is President of the Haven Network for Perinatal Death and Bereavement and an accomplished leader, speaker, and activist in the pro- life and pro-family movement.
Next Year's January Life Breakfast - Thursday, January 13, 2011
We are pleased to announce that Thursday, January 13, 2011 has been selected as the date for the next year's Life Breakfast by the January Life Breakfast Committee (members include Allan & Donna Benson, Larry Jacobs and Carol Griesbach). The 2011 event will be held at Giovanni's in Rockford, Illinois at 7:30am. Save this 2011 date for this great event!
Howard Center Roundtable Lunch With Nigerian Pro- Life Leader
The Howard Center has also announced a special pro-life event to be held next month, Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:00 noon at the University Club in Rockford, Illinois. The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society will present a Roundtable Lunch with Dr. Theresa Okafor, pro-life leader from Nigeria and organizer of the 2009 World Congress of Families conference in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr. Okafor will share and discuss "Pro-Life Lessons that Africa Can Teach America." $12.50 includes lunch at the University Club. Call Carol at The Howard Center for reservations at 815-964-5819.
For more information on The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, go to www.profam.org, the World Congress of Families, visit www.worldcongress.org or call The Howard Center at 815-964-5819.
The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois. To date, there have been five World Congresses of Families -- Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007). The World Congress of Families V was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 10-12, 2009 ( www.worldcongress.org).
