There are many ways that you can help in our fight for
respect of all human life!
Your financial support is needed and appreciated.
For all donations of $20.00 or more, we will send you an
income tax receipt.
Become a Member of the Stratford and District Right to Life
and keep informed with our newsletters. Make a donation of $20.00 or
more and receive a yearly membership.
Please send your name and postal address, along with
your donation of $20.00 or more to:
Stratford & District
Right To Life,
Box 21133,
Stratford, Ont.
N5A 7V4.
All memberships include a tax deductible receipt and newsletter.
Area Contacts usually have Membership Drives in churches in Oct-Nov-Dec. If your
church doesn't have a drive and you are interested in being a member, please email us at
Veronica-Price@talk.to .
Membership money is used to absorb costs of newsletters, postage, purchasing literature and materials for educating the public. Donations of
over $50.00 are used for special projects.
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Your Volunteer Time is Desperately Needed! |
Please help us with the mailing out of information to save babies!
Our workload is getting heavier and we need hands and energy to
help this great cause.
You could choose a yearly project if you wish, or attend one of our meetings
and decide what you would like to do. If you could just help out with one small thing!
In addition to our regular day-to-day work, there are other important pro-life
duties facing us from time to time, and often we do not have enough
"people-power" to be as effective as we should be.
We challenge you to accept
one of the duties listed below and to make it your special way of responding
to the cry for help from the Unborn.
- Newsletter: January, May & September: Offer suggestions and articles for the newsletter. Help with editing
and preparing newsletter contents. Arrange
hall for newsletter assembling and contact other volunteers. Look after coffee and
clean-up of kitchen. Help with the mail-out of our newsletters in the afternoons. Pick up/drop off
mail-bags at the post office.
- Art Contest: Help with mail-out to schools. Colour code art and arrange into
proper grade for judging. Contact hall, judges and newspaper for pictures. Place art on Hall
floor in proper categories before judging. Be present while judging and pick up
all art afterwards. Make list of winners, letter to principals, total prize money to
each school and forward to Treasurer. Send cheques and all info to schools and newspapers.
- Raffle: Seek donations, print tickets, get permit from City Hall and send in
post-raffle report. Arrange selling tickets at grocery stores, markets, fall fairs and churches.
- Garage Sale:
We always appreciate your donations of time, articles and baking for the Bake Table.
Volunteers needed for advertising, mailing letters, contributing donations, sorting donations, pricing and helping during sales.
- Penny Sale, Silent Auction: Ask stores for donations, make up cards and tubs for prizes.
Set up churches with prizes.
- Annual Dinner: Mail-out to churches and groups. Prepare hall, etc. Arrange
speaker, caterer, hall. Look after dinner ticket sales. Get volunteers to all tables (ie: cakes,
cards, raffles, literature).
- General Office Work: Filing, sorting pamphlets and books. Stamping envelopes
for mailing, writing income tax receipts and thank-you letters.
- Contact Person: Always needed for Ladies/Mens/Youth/Church groups.
- Telephoning: Phone 10-12 people to remind them of upcoming events.
- Presentations: Be a speaker or give us suggestions of speakers for
presentations to groups, churches or schools. Accompany speaker, set-up
pamphlets and other materials.
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Silent Auction and Penny Sale
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Silent
Auction and Penny Sale Prizes are donated by local businesses.
They are on display at the Garage Sale in March and Coffee Social
at St. Joseph's Catholic Church
in April and May.
We
have Christmas Cards for sale for $6.00 per package of 10 cards. Cards can be purchased at the Right to Life Dinner
or by emailing us at Madeleine-Visser@talk.to .
There are five designs to choose from:
"The Virgin with Angels", "Rest on the Flight to Egypt", "The Holy Family", "A Place
Where We All Could Live", "Adoration of the Shepherds"
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Pro Life Cheques are an effortless way to spread the pro-life message to dozens of people. Every
cheque that is processed is seen by at least 15 people and many of them will be seeing the life-
affirming "Protect All Preborn Children" message for the first time.
You can order 200 cheques for only $33.40 (taxes, postage and handling included).
Please enclose
a voided cheque for the supply that you are using or the re-order form from your current supply.
Please mail void cheque, along with payment of $33.40, to:
"Federated Cheque Services Inc." and send to:
Campaign
Life Coalition, 104 Bond Street, Ste. 300, Toronto, M5B 1X9 or please call
1-800-779-9896 with questions.
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We
encourage everyone to make a donation in memory of a deceased friend or relative to
Stratford and District Right to Life. Cards are available from us and all
Funeral Homes in our area. The Funeral Home sends the donation to us and we
will forward you an income tax receipt. You may also send your donation directly to us
at: Box 21133, Stratford, Ontario, N5A 7V4
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Grocery tapes are valuable to us!
Please save grocery tapes from Zehrs and Sobey's in Stratford. Seaforth Supermarket, Seaforth Food Market, Seaforth Valu-Mart and Valu-Mart in Mitchell and St. Mary's
are also involved. Tapes can be dropped off at boxes at
Sobey's, at the entrances of St. Joseph's and Immaculate Conception Church, given to area contacts or sent directly to us.
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Delicious Gourmet Christmas Cakes |
Delicious
Gourmet Christmas Cakes are provided by the Heritage Baking Company
of Whitby. These cakes are made from natural ingredients and are
not available in stores. Available in two sizes - $15 for a 775 gm. cake and $25 for a 1350 gm. cake which comes in a
decorative round tin. These cakes make wonderful gifts for friends, family and employees.
Proceeds will go to support ongoing pro-family work. Cakes can be purchased at the Annual
Dinner or by emailing us at Madeleine-Visser@talk.to .
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Raffle Tickets
go on sale in March and prizes are drawn at the Annual Dinner in
November.
Prizes are donated by individuals or businesses.
Email
us at Madeleine-Visser@talk.to
if you wish to donate an item to the annual raffle.
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For children in grades Kindergarten to Grade 8.
Thankyou for giving students an awareness of the respect for all life!
Please watch our Contests page for more information.
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Held on the first Sunday in October (October 4th, 2009).
Participants are needed to "Stand For Life" on Huron and Ontario Streets from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
Afterwards, all are welcome at Immaculate Conception Hall (50 Well Street, Stratford) for refreshments. For more information on the Life Chain
please click here .
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Gather at the
Supreme Court Building in Ottawa and walk to Parliament Hill to draw attention to the 1969
passage of a Bill which permits induced abortion.
Please watch our events page for more information
and also click here .
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Please see our Letter Writing page for information on contacting
the Canadian government via
letter and email regarding various pro-life issues.
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Reaching Minds Through Media Campaign |
"Alliance for Life Ontario", a coalition of 60 Educational Pro-Life Groups, hopes to raise
$500,000.00 to launch its "Pro-Life Television Ad Campaign" using the best advertising techniques
and production values.
The "Reaching Minds Through Media Campaign" is a project run by Alliance for Life Ontario, the provincial
organization for educational pro-life groups in Ontario. The goal of the campaign is to:
- Reach millions of people across Ontario with life affirming messages
- Help pregnant women and teens get connected to crisis pregnancy centres
- Reduce abortion rates
- Cause people to think about/rethink their position on abortion
- Help post-abortive women heal from the pain of their abortion
Despite years of abortion on demand in Canada, polls continue to show that the most basic facts about
abortion are not known by the majority of Canadians.
Did you know:
- Canada has no abortion law, thereby sanctioning abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy
- Abortion was "legalized" over 30 years ago, before technology introduced us to the baby in the womb
- Over 100,000 unborn babies are killed each year in Canada... 35,183 occurring in Ontario
- Ontario taxpayers pay over 30 million dollars every year to fund abortion on demand
- 49% of Ontarians are extremely conflicted on abortion
- There are thousands of people waiting to adopt a child
- Many women feel coerced into having an abortion
and many women suffer deep regret and depression for years afterwards
Most people don't know why or how abortion is performed,
or the detrimental effects it has on women's health. The "Reaching Minds Through Media Campaign"
offers a chance to change the culture through bringing a "gentle, pro-life voice into people's living rooms"
while they are watching their favourite television programs.
Each TV commercial carries a toll-free, pregnancy HELP-LINE 1-800-655-0570 phone number to
encourage women/girls facing a crisis pregnancy to make the call that will bring them comfort and support.
The average cost of each commercial is $300. Imagine, only three hundred dollars to connect a mother
with life-affirming support and save a child's life! However, we need to raise at least $500,000 for this campaign to be successful.
We can't do this without you! This truly is a
chance to create a climate in which every child is considered a gift to the world and every mother receives
the support she needs.
We invite you to help change the hearts and minds of people in conflict over abortion by supporting our
pro-life television ad campaign. Please help support the largest media campaign ever launched
against abortion in Ontario. Please make your donation payable to Stratford and District Right to Life, Box 21133, Stratford, On, N5A 7V4
(earmarked 'Media Campaign"). We will send you a tax receipt for the amount you donate to this very important project.
All donations that we receive will be forwarded by us to "Reaching Minds through Media Campaign" in Guelph, Ontario.
More information about the campaign, including video of the commercials, can be found at
www.allianceforlife.org
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