Next Step Supporters, Volunteers, and Staff
Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming Virtual Gala and Silent Auction for Next Step Pregnancy Services. Our Keynote speaker is Roni Sasaki.
Roni Sasaki was born with one leg. She believes that God formed her for a purpose. Roni is a Paralympic Gold Medalist, podcast host, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. She inspires audiences to embrace their imperfections and live the life that God intended from the moment of conception. You don’t want to miss it!
Thank you to the students and families at Arrow Prep Academy for putting on a Diaper and Wipie drive for Next Step!
(click on the link and put your volume up!)
Attached is a very short video I hope you will watch that celebrates the beauty of life in the womb and beyond.
Next Step could truly use some volunteers for some of our afternoon slots. If you have a hunger for service and want to be a part of our pro-life community this is a great chance! We have openings for 2p or 3p until 530p for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. If you are interested in checking us out please call (425)329-4569, email heather@nextstepnw.com or stop in!! We would love to have you!
Thank you to the generous families for all the beautiful and plentiful gifts this season for our clients. We are just overwhelmed! Beautiful clothes, blankets, coats, gift baskets of shampoos and lotions, and box after box of diapers. Not to mention monetary donations to help Next Step remain open and able to serve! We are blessed to be part of the Giving Tree service for St. Pius, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. Mark, St. Alphonsus, St. Brendan, and St. Paul
Thank you also to St Monica’s Knights of Columbus for gifting Next Step proceeds from their pie sale!
We also thank the ladies at Holly House for their generous bundles of warm and toasty new sleepers! And we thank Maple Park Church for providing money for gift cards for our families to purchase Christmas gifts and food for their families.
Thank you also to the Binky Patrol for all the beautiful quilts and receiving blankets we use for our newborn layettes!
Also a huge huge thank you to Mr. Larry Kessler and the most esteemed Knights Of Columbus Council 676 for there unbelievable generosity for our mission. Their gift will ensure Next Step can remain open and serving and giving the utmost care to our mothers, babies – born and unborn – and their families.
Campbell Auto Group has served Next Step’s mission for several years and this year is no different. Please join me in thanking them for their partnership in community service to those in need! Check us out on their website campbellautogroup.com or in their showroom (Locations in Edmonds and Everett! Ask for Kurt!)
Keep your eyes peeled for more info on our Next Step Pregnancy Services Pizza Fundraiser! Coming January 3rd to the Lynnwood location. Football? Pizza? Oh yea!
A huge thank you to two of our lovely church communities for participating in the October Baby Bottle Campaign! We are overwhelmed by your support and blessed beyond measure. Your care and determination to protect the most vulnerable is awesome!
Thank you to Father Wichert, Mr. Tom Gray, and everyone at St. Brendan’s Catholic church in Bothell – you raised a whopping $6,219.00!
And thank you to Fr. Vincent, Shannon Laird, and everyone at Holy Rosary in Edmonds – you brought in a huge $4,368.00!
Both were well over the goal – the bottles were overflowing – that’s $10,587!!
With such a hard year almost under our belts we can’t thank you both enough for your generosity.
October is Respect Life month. Here at Next Step of course every month is Respect Life Month but back in 1972 (according to USCCB) the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops officially made it a sacred month to celebrate and uphold the sanctity of life.
Next Step is scheduled to have two combination Baby Bottle Campaigns this month. A physical bottle handout at St. Brendan Church in Bothell the weekend of October 3rd/4th and at Holy Rosary in Edmonds the weekend of October 10th/11th. We are also offering a Virtual Baby Bottle Campaign found here on this site (nssupport.org) under the heading “Baby Bottle Campaign”. Donation can be made both ways.
Also, please check out Coffee and Doughnuts with Father Wichert on Facebook Live Saturday September 26th at 11:30am as Next Step Pregnancy Services Executive Director Heather Vasquez will be his guest!
Shout out to Juan Pablo, a family member of one of our Next Step staff, who generously created our Baby Bottle Graphic!
Be on the look out for our Fall Baby Bottle Campaigns starting. We are doing a combination of virtual and physical. We’d love to come to your church or organization to share about our life-affirming ministry!
Hello friends! I invite you to watch this very short video and I hope it touches your heart and reinforces why you believe in Next Step Pregnancy Services and why your support is so very essential! This is “Stephanie”. You may remember her from a very brief clip on our Annual Virtual Gala back in June. Here is her full interview in its entirety. Take a watch, share, and again – if it touches your heart as it did mine when I sat down with her – please continue to support Next Step Pregnancy Services with your time, talent, and treasure! Even more so in a time when things go from bleak to bleaker. There is always hope and where there is hope – there is life.
Next Step Pregnancy Services is about sharing truth and life. Stephanie’s exact story is why we do what we do.But being able to take a step back, get informed, feel heard, and realize you have choices is all it takes to change fear into hope. For Stephanie being able to see her child during the ultrasound was what she needed to move forward with hope. And Next Step, with the help of supporters like you, provided that hope for Stephanie and her little girl.
P.S excuse the missing “N”!