2025 Annual Life Saving Banquet
Empower Mothers to Choose Life!
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:30 PM
Ballroom doors open at 6:00 PM
Penn Harris Hotel • 1150 Camp Hill Bypass • Camp Hill, PA 17011
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
—2 Corinthians 12:9
In 2024, in the battleground state of PA, Morning Star faced many challenges inside and outside our clinics. But we found comfort in Scripture: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
This verse encouraged us to embrace our “weaknesses” and depend on God’s strength to lift us up. With your support, God’s grace shone in 2024 as 511 moms actively searching for, considering or at risk for abortion came to Morning Star and chose Life for their babies.
Morning Star’s Annual Life Saving Banquet is our biggest fundraising event of the year to support our pregnancy medical and social services. Join us in fellowship to show moms and dads that, even in the face of weakness, God’s grace is shining on them—through Morning Star. Together, we can:
- Support and Lift Up Women & Families
- Save the Lives of the Unborn
- Build a Culture of Life in Our Community
RSVP by April 17 to attend. Together, we find renewed strength in knowing Jesus is walking alongside us in this mission.
Do you know others who have a heart for Life? Consider registering to attend our Life Saving Banquet as a table host. (There is no cost to host a table.) Table hosts play a critical role in our event’s success by inviting guests to attend the banquet, expanding Morning Star’s support and helping us meet our fundraising goal.
2025 Keynote Speaker, Jill Stanek
When it would have been easier to look the other way, Jill Stanek’s commitment to Christ led her to risk her job, reputation, and friendships to stop the terrible practices of abortion and infanticide.
Jill was a registered nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL. She discovered not only were abortions being committed there, but babies were being aborted alive to die without medical care. When hospital leaders said that they would not stop, Jill went public and has become a national figure in the effort to protect both born and pre-born infants.
Jill has been quoted in the national media on television, on radio, in print, and by local and national legislators. There are hundreds of examples, but some include: O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Associated Press, CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek, New York Times, Politico, Time, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, World Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times.
Jill has now testified 10 times before congressional and state legislative committees. Jill’s written testimony has been read several times in key U.S. Congressional debates on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban and Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
Jill remained at the hospital fighting from the inside, until she was terminated in 2001 for reasons related to her public outspokenness to its abortion practices.
On August 4, 2002, President George W. Bush invited Jill to his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which protects live aborted children from infanticide. Jill was honored to be publicly thanked for her help with the bill by the President during his speech. In January 2003, World magazine named Jill as one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders in the movement over the past 30 years. In July 2015, Jill was honored to be named National Campaign Chair at Susan B. Anthony List, the largest pro-life political group in the country. SBA List works to pass pro-life legislation and elect pro-life leaders to office, with a focus on women.
Jill is a member of Parkview Christian Church in Orland Park, Illinois. She is wife to Rich, mother to three married children, and grandmother to 10 grandsons. She has addressed many groups at the local, national, and international levels sharing her testimony and giving an insider’s view to the atrocity of abortion.
