“Working Together to End Abortion in California”

June 16th-17th, 2017 in Bakersfield

Purpose:  pro-life supporters from throughout the state, from all areas of expertise, will come together, meet one another, share ideas, learn about what is being done successfully, participate in strategic planning, find ways to overcome challenges, be inspired, and be encouraged!

Who is Invited: All pro-life advocates in CA are invited to attend this historic event as Eight Workgroups will present their Strategic Plans for ending abortion in our state, invite your participation, and leading pro-life organizations will have Information Tables.

For more information, please contact:  Wynette Sills, Director of Californians for Life, 916-955-1577, info@CaliforniansForLife.org

Here are the details of the Californians for Life Summit 2017, which includes three components for you to choose from:

1. Californians for Life Sidewalk Counseling Workshop Friday June 16th and Strategic Planning Lunch
2. Californians for Life Dinner Friday evening June 16th, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at RiverLakes Community Church
3.  Californians for Life Summit, Saturday, June 17th, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm RiverLakes Community Church, 4301 Calloway Drive, Bakersfield

Californians for Life Sidewalk Counseling Workshop and Strategic Planning Lunch
Friday June 16th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am at the Bakersfield Family Planning Associates (FPA) Abortion Business, 2500 H. Street, Bakersfield.  We will have lunch together afterwards to discuss strategies to accelerate the closure of California abortion businesses.  Registration is $10 to cover cost of Sidewalk Counseling Materials and Lunch.

David Bereit, co-founder and former director of 40 Days for Life, will serve as our Keynote Speaker, providing a national perspective on the pro-life movement.

Californians for Life Dinner Friday evening June 16th, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at RiverLakes Community Church, 4301 Calloway Drive, Bakersfield.  For everyone who is traveling to Bakersfield for the Summit and would like to join pro-life advocates from throughout the state for dinner Friday night or if you are unable to attend the full-day Summit on Saturday, but still want to be a part of this historic event, the Friday Evening Dinner is the place for you!  Come enjoy a great meal, catered by Hodel’s Country Dining and meet pro-life advocates who share the same goal, all working together to end abortion in California!  The cost is only $20 and will be held at Riverlakes Community Church.

Monsignor Perry Kavookjian

Monsignor Perry Kavookjian, Vicar of Bakersfield and Pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish will open our Summit with prayer.  Coming to the Dinner Friday evening has several advantages:
It is a less formal setting and an opportunity to meet everyone in advance of the more structured, workgroup setting of the all day Saturday Summit. The dinner allows you to pick up your Summit Registration Materials and Participant Packets in advance, which makes your arrival Saturday morning so much easier! The dinner is an opportunity to preview the Exhibitor Tables in advance so that you know whom to talk with on Saturday.

• 8:30 Opening Prayer Rev. Angelo Frazier, Pastor of Outreach and Care at RiverLakes Community Church
  

  

  Pastor Angelo Frazier, RiverLakes Community Church

   

Youth Outreach Workgroup–  Students for Life, Survivors, Vox Vitae,Pro-Life Future, and the Culture Project are all doing superbly outstanding work in California. Come meet the best and the brightest leaders for LIFE!

Cultural Outreach Workgroup- Maricela Lupercio and her community outreach efforts through Lations4Life will be featured. The Vida Initiative mission is to train and mobilize Latino leaders and the people they serve to end abortion and build a culture of life in their communities. ENDOW includes a Spanish program to educate on the nature and dignity of women.   Walter and Lori Hoye lead the Issues4Life Foundation and the Frederick Douglass Foundation. 

Messaging, Marketing and Media Workgroup– Examples of effective Marketing/Media/Messaging will be showcased at the Summit such as the brand new Resource App Help Assist Her, Josh Brahm’s Equal Rights Institute,  The Matter of Life Movie, the HUSH documentary about the impact of abortion on women including her risk of breast cancer, premature birth of subsequent pregnancies, and her emotional health, the Californians for Life Sidewalk Counseling pamphlet, the Pregnant? Need Help? signage and Californians for Life bumper stickers.

Pro-Life Medical Workgroup– Pro-Life doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical staff will come together to support one another, share resources, and expertise.  Topics include the Abortion Pill Reversal protocol which needs to be made available throughout California so that women who change their mind after taking the first abortion pill can get the help they need to save their baby’s life.

Political Advocacy and Voter Education Workgroup-  Get the latest information in the effort to Defund Planned Parenthood, including the implications for California, and come learn more about identifying and equipping pro-life Advocacy teams in each Congressional, state Assembly, and state Senate Districts.  Reports on the status of SB 320, which would require each UC and CSU student health center to provide the Abortion Pill, and other California state legislative action will be included.  Our goal for 2017 is to identify, organize, and equip Life Advocates in every Assembly/State Senate/Congressional District who can be a voice for life in the legislative process.

Church Workgroup-  learn more about the Churches for Life training program, the ten Embrace Grace groups in CA designed to help pregnant women with the resources they need right within the church, and “Making Life Disciples”