"It's a Wonderful Life" was the theme for the 25th Anniversary Banquet for the Loving Arms Pregnancy Center Thursday night at the Pillars Event Center in Taylorville.

Some 160 people came to listen on how the Center, with locations now in Taylorville and Pana, have impacted the lives of pregnant mothers to carry their baby to delivery, as well as ministering to the families of newborns.   The Center also provides abstinence education in many Christian County schools.

Executive Director Cathy Coker told Regional Radio News at the end of the night, she was grateful for the turnout as well as their guest speaker and artist Mark Schultz.

Coker has been Executive Director of Loving Arms for the majority of its 25-year-history.   She told us it was all about saving just one child from abortion.

Guest speaker was platinum-selling Christian Music Artist Mark Schultz who at birth was given up by his own mother.   Schultz shared his story and many of his songs to the Loving Arms crowd.  Schultz told Regional Radio News after last night's event how Loving Arms has stepped in the gap for unborn babies.

Find out more information on the Loving Arms Pregnancy Center in Taylorville and Pana on-line at lovingarmsillinois.com.