Bratislava, Slovakia

23 September to 25 September

Pregnancy help heroes are championing life every day across the European landscape. The venues for such life-affirming efforts vary from telephone/email hotline to actual office space. The daily, compassionate outreach to women (and men) dealing with an unexpected pregnancy is far from the political wrangling. Those called to this work face great challenges in answering the call to champion life. We invite all pregnancy help leaders to gather together to share information and understanding as well as gain insight from others.

Don't miss this opportunity for encouraging, equipping, and envisioning for pregnancy help efforts in Europe.

Who Should Attend?

 Anyone involved in life-affirming pregnancy help – direct service to women facing an unexpected pregnancy – is welcome.

Cost for Registration

89€ includes all registration materials, 3 conference meals and coffee breaks. 

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Who's Speaking?

With our focus specifically on and for pregnancy help leaders we have three excellent leaders from the pregnancy help movement as keynotes for the conference next September in Bratislava.

Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. - Heartbeat International (United States)

Margaret H. (Peggy) Hartshorn, Ph.D. received her doctorate in English literature and began teaching at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio in 1974.  Moved by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade in the United States, which legalized abortion throughout the country in 1973, she and her husband, Michael, began housing pregnant girls in their home in 1974, opened a pregnancy help center (now a medical clinic) in 1981, and became active in pro-life work at the national/international level in 1986.

In 1992 Peggy became the President of Heartbeat International, now the most expansive network of life-affirming pregnancy help ministries in the world, with 1,800 affiliated pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and nonprofit adoption agencies in 50 countries. She and her husband are parents of two adopted children, now grown and married, and they have 5 grandchildren 

Christina Braüner Nielsen - Heart for Life (Denmark)

Christina Marie Braüner Nielsen is a Registered Midwife BSc, Master of Public Health (MPH) and a PhD Scholar in maternal health at Aarhus University, Denmark.  In 2005, Christina and Kirstine Madsen attended a Heartbeat International conference in Ukraine and learned how to form an NGO. The next year they founded Heart for Life, where the organization has provided nationwide online counseling to more than 2,500 Danish women affected by an unexpected pregnancy, or post abortion problems.  They’ve trained more than 30 professionals as voluntary counselors, and ten voluntary staff members run the administration, fundraising, publicity etc. Just recently they hired their first paid staff member.

In her spare time, Christina has travelled on short-term mission trips to countries like Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Her heart is to spread the gospel to unreached nations, and to share Christ’s love to those in need of medical care.

Vesna Radeka - Choose Life Center (Serbia)

Vesna Radeka, a native of Novi Sad, Serbia, is the president of the pro-life ministry, Choose Life Center, a life-affirming outreach with prevention, intervention and reconciliation services to the Novi Sad community.

Vesna attended Philosophical College, and she received a degree in Serbian Literature and Language. In 2009 Vesna has finished Graduate academic studies at the Novi Sad Theological Seminary. Vesna is also helping her husband Nenad in establishing the Nexus Church in Novi Sad, Serbia. They have three children, Danilo, David, and Anastasija.

Schedule Breakout Forum Topics 

Dynamic Workshops and Forums

Along with plenary sessions that will inspire and inform, there will be breakout forums on vital topics that challenge all pregnancy help efforts – leadership, fundraising and technology. These breakouts will be participatory in nature. As you plan which ones to attend, please come prepared to share your knowledge as well. Breakouts will be facilitated discussions with interaction among attendees.

Conference Schedule