Events

Annual Respect Life Poster/Essay Contest

Theme: Life - Always The Best Choice!

Poster Contest for Grades 3-8

Essay Contest for Grades 7-8

Right to Life of Adams County is sponsoring its 41st annual poster contest and its 30th annual essay contest! Our purpose remains the same as in past years—to encourage the development of pro-life values in our youth. These contests provide you a convenient opportunity to discuss the sanctity of life issues with your students. A short period of time spent on these issues each year has long-lasting results. Certainly, each child who submits a poster or essay has taken time to thoughtfully consider respect-for-life issues. Each succeeding year of participation strengthens the students’ pro-life convictions, readying them to combat the culture of death in contemporary society. Hopefully, all will gain valuable insights from this resource.

For more info on how your school or church can participate, please call or text Jane Haas at 217-257-0533.

Right to Life Essay Contest 2025

Right to Life Poster Contest 2025

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40 Days For Life Prayer Vigil

March 5 - April 12, 2025| Around Walgreens | 1723 Broadway | Quincy, IL 62301

Please visit https://www.40daysforlife.com/en/quincy to sign up and walk. For more info, please contact Colleen at 619-395-0625.

40 Days Campaign Kickoff Dinner

Sunday, February 16 | 4:00 pm | Bethel Assembly of God | 12th & Jefferson | Quincy, IL 62301

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Springfield March for Life

March 25, 2025 | Pickup at 9:00 am | Bus leaves 9:30

Those of you who wish to attend the Springfeild March for Life Rally can join with us for a nominal fee. We will be chartering a bus again this year to take participants directly to the Capitol Building to march around with good pro-lifers from around the state. If you would like to join us, and for more information, please contact Lyn at (217) 653-0075.

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Dogwood Parade

Saturday, May 3rd 9:00 am | Celebrating Our Heritage - Educate, Celebrate, Commemorate

We need volunteers to walk with us and hand out candy to spectators again for this years annual parade. If unable to walk, there will be room to ride in the truck. Star Wars is the theme for this year so wear your best jedi cloak! This is a wonderful way to get our message out to the community and show our presence.

Please consider walking!

Questions? Please reach out to Jane at 217-257-0533 or email us at [email protected]

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National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children

September 13, 2025 | 1:00 pm | K of C Grounds | 700 S 36th St

PLEASE join us for Quincy's National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children memorial service.

On Saturday, September 13, pro-life Americans throughout the U.S. will gather at memorial sites dedicated in honor of aborted babies and at their gravesites, for the 13th annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children.

Together, during the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, let us remember the victims of abortion and pray for a final end to this injustice in our land. Solemn vigils were held at 225 locations in the U.S. in 2024 to commemorate the more than 65 million children who have lost their lives to legal abortion since 1973, and to remind our society of the humanity of the unborn child.

Please bring a lawn chair.

For more info call Jane - (217) 257-0533

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Life Chain

October 5th, 2025 | 2:30 pm | Between 14th & 18th Broadway

Please join with other area pro-life supporters in peaceful public witness as we stand for 60 minutes praying for our nation and for an end to abortion.

Pick up your sign at the corner of 16th and Broadway between 2:00 and 2:30 pm. Please park on 16th Street or Vermont. We ask that you position yourselves two arm’s lengths apart along the South Side of Broadway Between 14th and 18th Streets Do not stand in groups Bring a lawn chair only if unable to stand. This event is an opportunity to stand for life and is held in more than 1,000 cities in the United States. Please remember this is an hour of silent prayer.

For 35 years, pro-life Christians across the United States and Canada have publicly, prayerfully, and peacefully stood in prayer and repentance on behalf of legalized abortion each fall. From its small beginnings as a local witness in California, the Life Chain has spread to more than 1,000 locations all over North America. The first Sunday of each October is usually National Life Chain Sunday. We believe that it is time for the Church to fight for the unborn with spiritual weapons. The battle for life will not be won in the courtroom or the voting booth until it is first won in prayer. We call for pastors to lead the Church in repentance for our nation.

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Annual Respect Life Dinner | Holiday Inn Ballroom | 4821 Oak St | Quincy, IL

Tuesday, October 7th 2025 | Doors open at 5:30 pm | Dinner 6:00 pm | Speaker at 7:00 pm

Speaker Kristina Massa from Justice For All!

Please join us for our annual Respect Life Dinner with speacial guest speaker Kristina Massa! More details to follow!

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Pennies (or More) for Life Campaign

An annual fundraiser held in our churches to give everyone the opportunity to thank God for the gift of life. Everyone is asked to donate at least a penny for every year of his or her life.

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Biking For Babies

Friday, July 18th 2025 | Mass at 5:30 pm | Dinner at 6:15 pm

Blessed Sacrament Parish | 1119 South 7th St | Quincy, IL 62301

Biking for Babies envisions generations transformed by the Gospel of Life, which highlights that every human is made in the image and likeness of God and thus has profound inherent dignity. It starts with personal conversion and helping expecting families today. Their young adult missionaries ride over 600 miles in a week, raising awareness and funds for pregnancy resource centers and offering it all for the renewal of the culture of life.

Mass followed by dinner and missionary testimonies and meet and greet with the riders.

Contact Vicki Wittland for further details at 217-316-9936.