Harvest Valley Church in Pleasanton blessed Next Step with a diaper drive! Here’s a huge thank you to Christie Zulim and all the Harvest Valley donors, supporters, and volunteers who showed up to make this happen! We are so grateful for your partnership.

The Diaper Dash & Baby Shower event was amazing and helped us restock the resource room. A big thank you to all who were part of this event. We collected over 10,000 diapers and were able to see supporters face-to-face.

Merry Christmas from Next Step! Your partnership saved lives and will touch generations. Thank you for supporting Next Step in so many ways, including spiritual and financial support. We need and appreciate all the ways you partner with us to impact lives. We wish you a very happy Christmas and a 2025 full of blessing and hope.

In This Issue, learn about how God Is Using This Ministry to Save Lives, the way Knights of Columbus come to the rescue, how a woman chose life, about the Barbara Saba Award, and more!

View the year end letter for 2024 from Carrie Slaton, executive director of Next Step. She discusses the help we’re able to offer (including God’s Truth!) to women and men experiencing an unexpected pregnancy. Because of your support, our staff can give the care, compassion, time, and hope to each one who walks through the door; each an opportunity to choose life!

Thank you for your support! Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who has supported Next Step in monetary contributions, prayer, volunteering, and sharing this mission with others. This includes the 216 people who attended, 37 of which are new supporters of Next Step. Thanks to your support, we have successfully raised $155,000 in funds, allowing us to continue empowering women to make confident and healthy life choices. Your support makes a significant difference, and we are deeply grateful for your partnership in advancing our mission. Together, we are making a meaningful impact, and we couldn’t do it without incredible supporters like you!

Thanks to our generous donors, Next Step is honored to present the Joshua Michael Liu Memorial Scholarship to local high school seniors. This $500 scholarship underscores our passion to give back to the community and foster the value of a mother and child's lives to the next generation of young adults. 

Gianni’s Tips for change was fun and delicious for all! Volunteers & staff from Next Step—including founder Barbara Saba—served for the evening at Gianni’s in San Ramon. Tips and a percentage of sales from the night were donated directly to Next Step!

Thank you to everyone who pitched in to make the Mother's Brunch a success! Because of your generosity, Next Step clients enjoyed a delicious brunch and relaxing massage. The best part of the event was that these moms made new friends, empowering stories were shared, and those cute babies were there to be held.

As Executive Director at Next Step, I am always looking for ways to support decisions for life. That's why I was in Sacramento for the March for Life. California Family Council and March For Life hosted the 2024 March for Life in Sacramento on Monday 4/22. It was an encouraging and memorable event.

Recently we had the opportunity to present our grief program and partner with Harvest Valley Church in Pleasanton, CA in a baby bottle campaign. Next Step offers Abortion Recovery and Reproductive Grief care.

It isn’t very often we see a bill in the state of California in favor of pregnancy centers, so I am very excited to share with you, and ask you to support the upcoming SB 1368. This bill has been assigned a hearing for the Senate Education Committee on April 24.

Chloe’s birth mother had cancer and she was advised to abort the baby. But God had other plans for their lives. Chloe was adopted by first-time parents, whose lives were changed forever by her mother’s decision for life in the face of very difficult circumstances.

We had the first Community Engagement Night of 2024 on Tuesday, February 27. We saw an amazing live ultrasound and staff, including Executive Director Carrie Slaton, were on hand.

We hosted a tour for Celebration Church youth group last week. They toured the facility, learned about how we help the community and had the opportunity to see an ultrasound!

Thank you for your support! The Diaper Dash & Baby Shower event was fun and allowed us to see some of you amazing supporters who delivered needed resources. And those who gave in person or giving online helped us restock our baby resources.

Gianni’s Tips for change was fun and delicious for all! Volunteers & staff from Next Step served for the evening at Gianni’s in San Ramon. Tips and a percentage of sales from the night were donated directly to Next Step!

Merry Christmas from the Next Step team! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support. Wishing you a blessed Christmas & happy new year! Thank you for your generous support of Next Step in prayer, volunteering, financial gifts, and …

View the year end letter for 2023 from Carrie Slaton, executive director of Next Step. She discusses the help we’re able to offer because of your support, including one woman’s story of hope in her time of need.

In This Issue, learn about a client who has hope to consider all of her options because of your support. Find out how Next Step’s executive director is bringing awareness about pregnancy centers to the State Capitol, see the faces of babies born because of your support, and more!