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IGNITE for LIFE

January 28, 2026 | 9:00 am (doors open at 8:30 am)

Topeka Performing Arts Center | Topeka, KS

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This event is free, registration is requested for communication purposes in case of inclement weather.

Check out the messages from our speakers from IGNITE 2025!

Gabriel Cobb is an inspirational, motivational speaker with Down Syndrome. He loves assisting the world to appreciate the gift of those with “a little something extra”.

Leah Darrow is a former reality contestant on America’s Next Top Model turned international Catholic speaker, author, entrepreneur, podcaster and Mama to 7 kids living on an 80 acre farm! Leah is passionate about the gift of life and igniting greatness within others.

Dr. Lisa Gilbert is a board-certified family physician, including prenatal care and obstetrics, at Ascension Via Christi Family Medicine Residency Program in Wichita.

Debra Niesen, Lead Consultant for Pro-Life Ministries, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

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Join us at IGNITE to kick-off the Kansas March for Life and in recognition of the National Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.

IGNITE for LIFE is an inspirational, pro-love rally for the protection of preborn children and the dignity of women facing unplanned or challenging pregnancies.

Live music!
Motivational speakers!
Engaging ministry tables!
The celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of Mass with the Bishops of Kansas!

Following IGNITE, all are invited to join in the Kansas March for Life to the capitol for the Kansans for Life rally. IGNITE for LIFE is sponsored by the Pro-Life Office of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

All events are free. Registration requested for the IGNITE rally so that we can communicate in case of inclement weather.

Holy Spirit, ignite our hearts to defend LIFE!

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Event Details

8:30am Doors open
8:50am Praise & Worship Music by the band “All Things I Am”
9:00am Speaker Program
10:30am Mass with the Bishops of Kansas
12:00 pm Join the public to march to the Kansas State Capitol for the Kansans for Life Rally
1:00 - 3:00 pm Eucharistic Adoration at Mater Dei Catholic Parish ( 1114 SW 10th Ave, Topeka)

MINISTRY TABLES:

There will be a variety of Pro-Life Ministry Tables with free and for purchase items set up in the lobby for attendees to visit before and during the event.

Contact the Pro-Life Office at prolife@archkck.org with any questions!

Lunch Info

Unfortunately, no food is allowed inside the Topeka Performing Arts Center per our contract. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. We realize that some will need to eat something if planning to march to the Capitol and take part in the Kansans for Life Rally or a Capitol tour.

Stop by the Mater Dei-Assumption church anytime from 11:00AM to 11:45AM and again from 1:15pm to 2:oopm for a free-will-offering lunch located in Rossiter Hall, lower level. Chili, cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate, and 7-Weeks Coffee will be served.

If you have a group of 10 or more, please contact Jeanne Gawdun at jeanne@kfl.org.

Here are some other options to consider:

Encourage your students to eat a hearty breakfast before coming to IGNITE or provide a snack on their drive to the event.
Have your students pack a snack or sandwich in their coat pocket to eat during the march to the capitol.
Use the 20 minute break after Mass to eat a sandwich in your bus/cars or outside the TPAC before the March.

Keynote Speakers

David Bereit

DAVID BEREIT is an internationally acclaimed pro-life leader, strategic advisor, coalition builder, and dynamic communicator. His pro-life journey began in Bryan/College Station, Texas, where he rallied 60 churches and thousands of volunteers to drive Planned Parenthood out of local schools, revoke its taxpayer funding, reduce abortions, and ultimately shut down the local abortion center—prompting Planned Parenthood to label his town “the most anti-choice place in the nation.”

Bereit went on to found and lead 40 Days for Life, growing it into the world’s largest grassroots pro-life mobilization. Under his leadership, the movement galvanized 2,000 leaders and 750,000 volunteers in 600 cities across all 50 states and dozens of nations, leading to 14,643 lives saved, 177 abortion workers leaving the industry, and 96 abortion facility closures.

Today, he serves as Executive Director for the Life Leadership Conference—a groundbreaking initiative maximizing the pro-life movement’s impact through strategic coordination, unified messaging, targeted mobilization, leadership development, and a significant financial commitment to innovative life-saving projects.

David and his wife, Margaret, have been joyfully married for 32 years, live in the Washington, D.C., area, and are the proud parents of two adult children.

Dr. Angelique Pritchett

Angelique Pritchett, MD is a board certified specialist in family medicine with special interests in women’s health issues, obstetrics and prenatal care, gynecology and infertility. She has been trained as a Creighton Model FertilityCare Medical Consultant.

She believes the most rewarding aspect of medicine is the opportunity to connect with her patients. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed a residency in family practice at St. Anthony’s Hospital, Oklahoma City. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Catholic Medical Association. In 2016, she co-founded Gianna Family Care in Shawnee, Kansas where she provides health care to families using a direct primary care business model.

Dr. Pritchett is a member of the Abortion Pill Rescue network, and will speak about the dangers of the abortion pill to women, and her work and success in helping women attempt to reverse the effects of the abortion pill.

She is married to her husband, John and has four children.

Fr. Luke Doyle

Fr. Luke Doyle is a priest of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in KS. He currently serves as the Director and Chaplain at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas. Originally from Topeka, KS, he was ordained a priest on May 29, 2021. Fr. Luke is the Director and Chaplain of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center at the University of Kansas. He also serves the Archdiocese of Kansas City as its assistant Vocation Director, and is an appointed preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival.