The 2026 Heartline Banquet
MARKET WHILE MAKING A DIFFERENCE - BECOME A BANQUET SPONSOR!
All sponsorships are tax deductible.
Email Brenda at bwhitehead@heartlinepregnancycenter.org with questions.
WHAT TO EXPECT
DOORS OPEN - 5:15pm
Want to arrive early to snag your favorite parking spot, settle into your table, and get a head start on scoping out the auction items? Doors will open at 5:15 this year so you can get your party started!
Note that we expect about 350 in attendance, so thank you for your patience as we work to ensure that all of our guests have the BEST experience possible.
Heads up! We’re at Warsaw Community Church this year, so if you’re a long-time attender, note the location change!
SILENT AUCTION - 5:30 - 6:30
Last year was our first time adding a silent auction component to our annual banquet, and feedback indicated it was a HIT! We are working hard to gather bid-worthy items – and a lot more of them! – for this year’s event. What treasure will YOU walk away with?
If you or someone you know would like to donate (or sponsor) an auction item, please reach out to info@heartlinepregnancycenter.org.
DINNER - 6:00 - 7:00
We are thrilled to have Saucy’s once again catering our 2026 event – when people rave about the food every year, you know you’ve got to bring back the GOOD STUFF! So get ready, come hungry, and don’t forget DESSERT!
If you have allergies or dietary restrictions, please email us at info@heartlinepregnancycenter.org – we will do our best to accommodate.
PROGRAM - 6:30 - 8:00
While you’re still enjoying the deliciousness, we’ll start with the fun stuff – door prize drawings, silent auction winners, and the presentation of our annual “Heart of Heartline” award.
We’ll then share the powerful ways God has worked through Heartline over the past year, and how your support impacts hearts right here in our community.
Finally, this year’s speaker, Kelly Lester, will share her story (see more on Kelly below).
MEET THE SPEAKER: KELLY LESTER
“Have you had enough?” It was just four words, but it was a turning point question in Kelly Lester’s life.
For 15 years, Kelly had been running from the Lord, desperate to fill the hurting places in her heart with men, drugs, and every other kind of coping mechanism. But after nearly losing her life in a violent domestic fight, Kelly came to a place of surrender to the question God was asking of her.
But God, do you know the things I’ve done?
“Yes, Kelly, but if you follow me, I will make beauty from ashes.”
Kelly’s story is one that covers so many difficult and painful topics in our world today. Child molestation, raped as a teen, several abortions, drug dealing, eating disorders, homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, and even working in the clinic where she had her first abortion. But beauty triumphs from the ashes, and Kelly is a testament to how God can clean all the dirty parts of a painful life story and make it brand new.
Now a wife and mother of six children, Kelly loves to share her story to give hope to the most desperate situations proving that God can save anybody. Her story has been featured on the 700 Club for CBN. She is a regular contributor to OAN, Newsmax and Fox News. She currently works in Outreach and Government Engagement for And Then There Were None and Pro-Love Ministries, and is the Director of Outreach for Maps Global.
Considering a Sponsorship?
Please consider whether your organization is able to offer a larger sponsorship than years past; now that we do not receive ANY government funding, we have to raise even more at our events – and sponsors are what make that happen!
