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Dear Friends,                                                     

 

It is with great excitement that I announce the 21st annual CRADLE Walk for Life will be held on Saturday, September 12, 2026!  This is our most anticipated event of the year!  The Walk for Life is a wonderful time to get together with friends and other pro-life supporters!  With live music, a bouncy house, vendors, face painting and balloons, it’s a great day of fellowship and fun for the whole family!  We would love to have all of our friends and supporters join us for this year’s Walk for Life!

 

 As we gather together in support of life, it draws attention from the people in the community and shows them how strongly we believe that all life, in every stage is of great value and worth protecting.  Every baby has a right to life and we want to do our best to spread that message and help moms and dads provide for the invaluable lives that have been entrusted to them.  At CRADLE, we believe that all life, beginning at conception, is a gift from God and has immeasurable worth.  Psalm 139:13-14 says, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”  Life is precious even from the beginning.  

 

We would love for you to join us!  The Walk will begin and end at CRADLE, 1112 Gallia Street, Portsmouth, OH.  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the Walk will start at 9 a.m.  

 

What to look forward to:

• No registration fee (gratefully accepting tax-deductible donations of any amount)

• Easy walk route (for walkers of any age; stroller friendly)

• Free T-shirt for walkers (size guaranteed if pre-registered by August 4th)

• Live music

• Bouncy house

• Face painting and balloons for children

• Free refreshments

• Food vendors

• Individual and team prizes for those that raise the highest dollar amount in donations

• Fellowship with like-minded individuals

 

The funds raised through this Walk will help us continue serving families in the surrounding communities.  There are several different ways to get involved.  Consider forming a Walk Team and collectively raise donations or join as an individual walker.  We would love for you to become a Walk Sponsor and promote your church, business, or organization on the back of the Walk T-shirts.  Walk Sponsors can also honor loved ones by adding “In memory of…” on the back of the shirts. You can be a prayer partner and join us in praying for the Walk, our clients and their children, CRADLE volunteers, staff, and Board.  If you’re unable to join us in person for the Walk for Life this year, there are ways you could still bless the ministry with a donation.  Donations can be mailed to CRADLE at 1112 Gallia St. Portsmouth, OH  45662.  You may also come by the office or donate securely through PayPal or on our website cradlepcc.org.  If interested in becoming a Walk Sponsor, please contact us.  

 

CRADLE is a nonprofit, pro-life ministry that is solely dependent upon God’s provision through faithful donors and supporting churches.  Thanks to your giving, we are able to ease burdens both materially and spiritually by providing maternity, baby, and toddler necessities while also offering biblical counsel to our clients.  It is our goal at CRADLE, to show the love of God to everyone who walks in the door.  We have the blessed opportunity to meet people right where they are, be a listening ear, teach parenting education, hand out Bibles, present the gospel, conduct Bible studies, offer spiritual guidance, and help provide the items needed for our clients and their children.  Through showing the love of Jesus and helping with material needs, we hope to encourage our clients to choose life for their babies.  Every life is created with a purpose.  

“The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”  ~Jeremiah 1:4-5

Come join us for the Walk for Life and help us celebrate life and CRADLE’s 30th year of service!  It is an honor to be a part of this unique ministry, to have the opportunity to help those in need and to point them to our Saviour, Jesus.  He is so good to us; we give Jesus praise for all He has done!  I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for the 2026 Walk for Life!  Thank you so much for your generous support of CRADLE!  You are a great blessing to us and our clients!  We thank God for you! 

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Blessed to serve,

Mandy Arthur

Executive Director