K & K Tours
"A Celebration of Life"
Sharing Banquet 2005

Nearly 300 people turned out Tuesday, October 25 at Romer’s Celina Westlake Facility to help raise money for Harbor House Maternity Home and Elizabeth Pregnancy Services, as K & K Tours helped sponsor the 15th annual “A Celebration of Life” Sharing Banquet, an event we subtitled "Love and Basketball."
        Basketball is something that many people in Indiana eat, sleep and breathe. Coach Shaun headed up a winning Indiana high school basketball program, and he and his wife Cathy, a school teacher, had a great life but for one missing piece. They had prayed to God regularly asking Him to meet a desire that burned inside them for a child.
        While Shaun and Cathy prayed about a family, another couple in a different Indiana town prayed about their 17-year-old daughter Jessica. Herb and DeAnna had trusted God to help them deal with their daughter’s teenage rebellion, and were shocked when they found out she was pregnant.
        Knowing that Jessica was not ready to take on the responsibilities of parenthood, abortion was briefly mentioned but then just as quickly dropped. But they needed an answer, and at that time they had it, although they didn’t yet realize it.
        God was preparing each of them for a solution that involved Harbor House Maternity Home, LOVE... and BASKETBALL.
       Returning as our special guest was recording artist and adoptive father Dr. Jeffrey Kephart. Jeff has pastored a church in Middleburg Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, for the past four years, and his musical talent has led him to write many popular praise and worship songs, including one he wrote specifically for the ministry of Harbor House entitled Harbor in the Storm (see sidebar links). Jeff and his wife Donna have three children: Sarah, 14, Daniel, 9, and Nathaniel, 2.
        At the point of this writing, over $27,000 has been raised as a result of the Sharing Banquet.
        Many area businesses were willing to underwrite this year's Sharing Banquet so that people could attend without paying admission. They included:

K & K Tours, Inc., Celina Owen Hall Realtors Auctioneers, Celina Celina Aluminum Precision Technology Inc., Celina Scott & Denise Anderson, Celina Kessler Homes, Inc., Celina People's Bank Co., Coldwater Stammen-Paragon Insurance, Celina Lakeview Animal Hospital, Celina Bud's Chevy-Olds-Buick, St. Marys Vanderhorst Wholesale, St. Marys Community First Bank & Trust, Celina Jim & Sharon Zehringer, Fort Recovery Fowler's T.V., Inc., St. Marys Ron's Service, St. Henry St. Marys Foundry, St. Marys Celina Wine Store, Celina Roessner Energy Products Inc., Coldwater Designer Imaging, Celina Behms Restaurant, Celina State Farm Insurance, Celina Wilson Shoe Store, Celina Lawler's Flowers & Gifts, Celina St. Marys Chiropractic Office, St. Marys Village Sport Shop, Chickasaw 2 Anonymous ("To the Glory of God")		St. Henry Tile & Concrete Co., St. Henry RCS Construction, Celina St. Marys Surgical Associates, St. Marys Pax Machine Works, Inc., Celina Orchard Tree Restaurant, Celina Identity Salon, Celina Schockman Lumber Co., St. Henry Grier's Power Digging & Portable Toilets, Mendon St. Marys Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep, Inc., St. Marys Metzger Oil, Fort Recovery Gels Market, St. Henry Vern & Susan Hoying, St. Henry Second National Bank, Greenville First Choice Credit Union, Inc., Coldwater Thobe Body Shop, Maria Stein The Gels Home, Coldwater Geise Chiropractice Office, Celina Homan Insurance Agency, Maria Stein Hayes, Buchy & Assoc., CPA's, Greenville Bair Pharmacy, Celina Dickman, Kettler & Bruner, Coldwater Klenke's Trash Service, Coldwater

The Sharing Banquet

Since 1991, sharing banquets have been a part of bringing together—and envisioning and inspiring—the body of Christ and the friends of Harbor House Maternity Home.

Over the years, many friendships have been started or renewed through our banquet:

• Mike Williams , award-winning Christian comedian (2004)
• Ryan Dobson, youth speaker, author, and son (adopted) of Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family (2003)
• David Meece, Christian musician and recording artist (2002)
• Dr. Jeff Kephart, adoptive father and pastor at Trinity Missionary Church near Cleveland (2001)
• Eileen Roberts, advocate for parental notification (1999)
• Steve Camp, Christian singer/songwriter/preacher-teacher (1998)
• Rev. Pat Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition (1997)
• Anne Pierson of Loving and Caring, Inc. (1996)
• "One Voice" Huntington College (Ind.) music ensemble (1995)
• The Fleagle family (1994)
• The "Little Fiddlers" (1993)
• Dr. John Willke of Life Issues Institute, Inc. (1992)

We've also been blessed to have made other friends during events that were held locally to benefit Harbor House: Toby Travis, a Christian illusionist; Gianna Jessen, the survivor of a botched saline abortion; and Carol Everett, a former abortion provider and clinic owner.

Previous Sharing Banquets have also included unique aspects like a silent auction, or the year of the "non-banquet" Sharing Banquet, where guests were invited to stay home for simplicity sake.