NICHOLASVILLE — Right to Life of Central Kentucky will host the 16th annual Prayer for Life Vigil on Sunday, January 16 at Faith United Community Church in the church gymnasium.

Faith United is located at 3080 Brannon Road in Nicholasville, near the Cracker Barrel. The time of the event is from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Greg Williams, President and CEO of the Love & Lordship Ministry, will be the keynote speaker. He graduated from Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky and Georgetown College. In 2016, he was inducted into the Transylvania University Athletics and Basketball Hall of Fame. He hosted a local character education cable show called Character Matters (2003-2018) for Fayette County Public Schools Educational Television. He and his wife, Ami, co-hosted Marriage Unleashed, a guest talk show focused on healthy marriages on WTVQ Channel 36. Williams co-authored with his wife the recent book, The Authority of Love, which was titled “a wake-up call for the modern American church.

Many Americans will mark the dark anniversaries of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions by attending the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, this year on January 21.

The prayer vigil will honor the sanctity of all human life, from the womb to the grave. This is an opportunity for pro-lifers who cannot attend the national march to come together locally to pray for an end to abortion and to pray for our country.

Forty-nine years of legalized abortion in America has resulted in a staggering loss of life for 64 million babies. In Kentucky, the lives of more than 4,000 babies ended last year at Louisville’s two abortion centers, EMW Women’s Center and Planned Parenthood.

Former abortionist and founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Dr. Bernard Nathanson, MD, said after his religious conversion in a charge to the nation’s clergy: “If you had been united, determined and strong, we (abortionists) could never have got away with what we did.

In Nathanson’s book, Aborting America, the doctor recounted how abortion advocates like himself at the time intentionally lied to the public about the facts and figures surrounding “back alley” abortions in order to pressure legislators, the media and the courts to legalize abortion. on demand.

The vigil sponsor is a local chapter of Kentucky Right to Life. Right to Life of Central Kentucky was incorporated in 1972 as a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that receives no government funding. Right to Life’s mission is to restore legal protections for human beings whose lives are threatened by abortion, infanticide, involuntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Immediately following the wake, the American Heritage Girls will host a hot chocolate and cookie social for everyone in attendance. For any questions, please call Diana Maldonado at 859-797-1934.