Heartline Pregnancy Center Celebrating 40th Anniversary
April 7, 2025 at 5:54 p.m.
Heartline Pregnancy Center, 1515 Provident Drive, Ste. 180, Warsaw, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Heartline first provided services in the area in February 1985, said Executive Director Brenda Whitehead.
The founding members - a group of about 15 people - saw there were a lot of pregnant women in the community who weren’t getting the support they needed.
Whitehead said Heartline started out as a 24-hour hotline. As the need grew, Heartline grew into where it is now where the center has a full-time nurse, ultrasounds, parenting classes, fatherhood sessions, pregnancy tests, among other things.
The total clients served are more than 60,000 over the past 40 years.
“So if you think about the ripple effect of that, so that’s the women, you think about the babies that are involved, the partners that are involved. And now some of those are even grandmothers. So, generationally, we have somebody coming to share their story where their child is now an adult and kind of sharing how generationally things kind of changed for them,” she said, noting each story is a family impacted.
Heartline’s mission includes not only situational change and support, but striving for generational change.
When people think about generations, they usually think about a generation being 20 years. However, Whitehead said Heartline has served five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z and Generation Alpha.
Whitehead hopes Heartline will be able to help people for at least another 40 years and bring more generational change.
Heartline is celebrating its anniversary during its banquet on April 24.
Whitehead said Heartline does a banquet fundraiser every year, which is the center’s biggest fundraiser, and relies on the fundraiser for 25% of its budget. This year, the center is making the banquet even bigger due to the anniversary.
During the banquet, Whitehead said the center is inviting back a lot of past board members, staff members and volunteers and providing them with free tickets to attend.
The banquet is 6 to 8 p.m. April 24 at Rodeheaver Auditorium, Winona Lake. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $30 and a full table of eight seats is $220. Tickets can be purchased at https://heartlinepregnancycenter.org/banquet/
On Monday, Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce celebrated the center’s 40th anniversary with a picture and a guided tour of Heartline.
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Heartline Pregnancy Center, 1515 Provident Drive, Ste. 180, Warsaw, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Heartline first provided services in the area in February 1985, said Executive Director Brenda Whitehead.
The founding members - a group of about 15 people - saw there were a lot of pregnant women in the community who weren’t getting the support they needed.
Whitehead said Heartline started out as a 24-hour hotline. As the need grew, Heartline grew into where it is now where the center has a full-time nurse, ultrasounds, parenting classes, fatherhood sessions, pregnancy tests, among other things.
The total clients served are more than 60,000 over the past 40 years.
“So if you think about the ripple effect of that, so that’s the women, you think about the babies that are involved, the partners that are involved. And now some of those are even grandmothers. So, generationally, we have somebody coming to share their story where their child is now an adult and kind of sharing how generationally things kind of changed for them,” she said, noting each story is a family impacted.
Heartline’s mission includes not only situational change and support, but striving for generational change.
When people think about generations, they usually think about a generation being 20 years. However, Whitehead said Heartline has served five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z and Generation Alpha.
Whitehead hopes Heartline will be able to help people for at least another 40 years and bring more generational change.
Heartline is celebrating its anniversary during its banquet on April 24.
Whitehead said Heartline does a banquet fundraiser every year, which is the center’s biggest fundraiser, and relies on the fundraiser for 25% of its budget. This year, the center is making the banquet even bigger due to the anniversary.
During the banquet, Whitehead said the center is inviting back a lot of past board members, staff members and volunteers and providing them with free tickets to attend.
The banquet is 6 to 8 p.m. April 24 at Rodeheaver Auditorium, Winona Lake. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $30 and a full table of eight seats is $220. Tickets can be purchased at https://heartlinepregnancycenter.org/banquet/
On Monday, Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce celebrated the center’s 40th anniversary with a picture and a guided tour of Heartline.