Day For Life Conference

Free Admission!
Saturday October 15
9:45am - 2:30pm

8am Mass followed by free light breakfast; 8:45-9:45am
11:45am-1pm offsite lunch or bring sack lunch
Free drawings at 2:30pm - must be present
​​*Freewill offering for Modesto Pregnancy Center​

The Day for Life Conference is to come together as a community and bring awareness, during the respect life month, to various social and family issues we face in present day. 

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Featured Speakers

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​​MELISSA OHDEN BIO (Key Note Speaker)

Melissa is the survivor of a failed saline infusion abortion in 1977. Despite the initial concerns regarding Melissa’s future after surviving the attempt to end her life at approximately seven months gestation, she has not only survived but thrived.With a Master’s Degree in Social Work, she has worked in the fields of substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence and sexual assault counseling, and child welfare.
Melissa was formerly a College Outreach Speaker with Feminists for Life and is the former Patron of Real Choices Australia. She has testified in the Australian Parliament and before the U.S. Congress. Melissa is on the Board of Directors for the Vitae Foundation, a national organization which uses media to advance a culture of life.

​In 2012, Melissa founded The Abortion Survivors Network (ASN). ASN seeks to educate the public about failed abortions and survivors while providing emotional, mental and spiritual support to abortion survivors.   Since ASN’s inception, Melissa has been in contact with over 206 survivors.Melissa has been featured on television and radio programs including:  The 700 Club, EWTN’s Life on the Rock and Defending Life, Fox News, Focus on the Family, American Family Radio, the Mike Huckabee show, and the Teresa Tomeo show.  Her life and ministry is featured in the award winning pro-life documentary, A Voice for Life. 
After years of searching for her biological family and offering them forgiveness for the decision that was made to end her life, Melissa’s story, and her life, is so much more than one of survival.  It’s evidence of the intergenerational impact of abortion on all of our lives. More importantly, it’s a testament to the beauty of God’s grace in our lives, the power of love, and the transformational power of forgiveness and in answering God’s call for your life,
Fulfilling the purpose that she believes God set out for her when He saved her from the certain death of the abortion attempt, Melissa is truly a voice for the voiceless.

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CHRISSY AGUIAR BIO

 Chrissy joined the MPC staff in December 2012, after almost 20 years with Family Connections Christian Adoptions. Her journey with MPC began in 2006 when she attended a post-abortion healing group. After that, Chrissy shared by testimony in the high schools as well as participated in the post-abortion healing groups for the season. She is passionate about the unborn and sharing the truth about what God says about life! She excited to be the ED for MPC and continue this ministry forward. ​

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MICHAEL NADR ESQ. BIO

​Michael Nader is a graduate of both the Notre Dame law school and its Center for Civil and Human Rights, where he also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.  He studied the writings of St. John Paul in Krakow, Poland, and the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI in Regensburg, Germany.  He has also authored articles for the Catholic World Report and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, and has taught Catholic social doctrine for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Oakland.          

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Modest Pregnancy Center

A real woman's health facility which does not refer
​or provide abortions.