2025 CWC Celebration Gala

Friday, April 11th, 2025
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
7800 Normandale Blvd, Bloomington

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Seating begins at 6:30 PM

Reception starts at 6:00 PM and is an opportunity to visit information tables to learn more about CWC and ministry partners. Light hors d’ouevres and cash bar available.

If you are interested in hosting a table, contact Bonni Hendley at bhendley@cwcmail.org.

Gala Underwriting:

Your underwriting donation offsets the cost of the Gala so that every dollar raised the night of the event can go directly to supporting the ministry of CWC. To give your underwriting gift, click on the Donate button below. Thank you for your support!

Gala 2025 Guest Registration-to be opened:

CWC’s fundraising celebration Gala gives God the glory for saving almost 4,400 lives since 1992!

CWC continues to expand its outreach to -vulnerable women through our strategic location in a busy retail shopping center and our 24-hour inquiry website.

This is our biggest annual fundraising event which supports about one-third of our budget. The purpose of this event is to invite new potential partners, so they have the opportunity to hear client testimonies and learn how CWC ministers to women in unplanned pregnancies.

CWC 2025 Gala Guest Speaker, Jor-El Godsey

Jor-El Godsey serves as President of Heartbeat International. He leads a staff dedicated to equipping, empowering, and encouraging the thousands of leaders and developing leaders of Heartbeat’s affiliated pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and adoption services, in the U.S. and on every inhabited continent.

Jor-El has served in the pregnancy help movement since 1988. He first served as a volunteer at Hope, the pregnancy help centers in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Then he joined their board, served as Chair, then as Executive Administrator. In 1999, Jor-El became Executive Director of Life Choices in Longmont, Colorado. Six years later, in 2006, Jor-El accepted the call as Vice-President. Now serving as the second President in Heartbeat International’s 50+ year history.

Jor-El met his wife, Karen, at a volunteer training meeting for the Hope Center in Ft. Lauderdale. They currently make their home in Columbus, Ohio, and have three children.