The South Texas Pregnancy Care Center has prospered in large part because of strong support from the community, including paying two mortgages off in less than 10 years.
Last year South Texas Pregnancy Care Center celebrated 25 years of service and also paid off the mortgage on a new building, on which began construction less than three years ago.
“The really fun part is that the staff designed it,” said Janice Weaver, executive director. “I actually gave them graph paper and said, ‘Okay, I want you to draw what you think you would need to operate.’”
Companies in the area donated products like wallboard, roofing, and concrete, and individuals, churches, families, and foundations donated funds to help pay down the mortgage and assist with operational costs. Between March 2025 and November 2025, Weaver and the board were able to make additional payments to reduce the mortgage, and they applied funds from donations made at the center’s fall banquet to pay more. After the banquet, a representative from another foundation contacted Weaver and asked how much was still owed on the mortgage. She told him, and he pledged to give that exact amount. Before the end of 2025, the organization was debt free.
“This has given us such a freedom to be able to dream and to add other programs,” Weaver said.
The Center expanded its offerings and outgrew the previous building, she added.
“We are two-and-a-half times the size of what we were before, more than 4,000 square feet,” she said.
The previous building was paid in full early as well, by seven years, Weaver said.
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Adding more programs
Located in Seguin, Texas, about 36 miles northeast of San Antonio, South Texas Pregnancy Care Center averaged 176 unique clients each month and 342 total visits during 2025. The financial gifts and paid mortgage will strengthen the center’s services and programs, allowing the center to serve more client needs. One of the new endeavors Weaver and her team plan for 2026 is a fatherhood program and a staff member to lead it. She said she is reviewing various available resources for men’s services.
“We are looking at fatherhood programs – that’s our next big move,” Weaver said. “We have one counseling room that is off of the lobby that we are in the process of turning into a men's coordinator office so that he can see young men out in our lobby, go out and engage with them and talk to them about fatherhood and use the space for the fatherhood program we end up choosing.”
Increased outreach is also planned, especially with churches and their youth groups. Such endeavors have already begun.
“I did a podcast with [a Baptist association] that talked about how our churches could become more pro-life, what they could offer, and information about unplanned pregnancies and abortion pills and what the dangers are, how they work and that sort of thing,” Weaver said. “I’m trying to help our churches build that culture of life.”
Continued and increased connection with local churches remains a priority. Embrace Grace programs have been established, including the Embrace Legacy for dads. Two clients who attended those programs recently gave their lives to Christ and desired to be married. A pastor provided pre-marital counseling and agreed to marry the couples. That planted a seed for another program – partnering with local churches to provide pre-marital counseling for clients and offering part of the center’s outdoor space as a wedding venue. Wedding expense is a reason that clients have given for not getting married, even for committed couples, Weaver said.
“Some of these are pretty stable relationships – they’ve been together for a while,” Weaver said. “So, we started talking to some of our pastors, and several of them said they would be more than willing to help with premarital counseling.”
The center has a multi-purpose room that could be used for a small reception, along with a courtyard in front, where they’d like to build a gazebo, and offer a space free of charge for clients and encourage them to marry.
Additional ways to serve clients and the community are in the works, including a new program that began recently focuses on helping families who have experienced miscarriage.
“There is a book called Anchor that is for infant loss. It's a Bible study,” Weaver said. “We have two volunteers who are coming and meeting up for six weeks or eight weeks … and they do go through this Bible study on healing after a miscarriage.”
She also wants to implement an abortion healing program soon and hopes to work with area churches to start that service.
“It hasn’t happened yet, but we have people trained to teach that class,” Weaver said.
Partnering with community organizations
Providing sexual health educators for school programs and church youth groups is well-established not only in Seguin but also in other parts of the county.
“We have a program where we go out into area schools and teach it's called Share,” Weaver said. “It's one that we bought from a pregnancy center up in Michigan. We’ve taken their program and made it aligned with the Texas education requirements.”
She added, “Last year we were in 16 different schools. By the end of the school year, I think we're going to be in 18 different schools this year. We’ve built a really good working relationship with our school district and with our city offices.”
Weaver and her team have worked with the local county extension office and the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to teach car seat safety.
“We provided a car seat for our clients, and then they had technicians that came in and supervised those clients as they put the car seats in their cars and then checked them to make sure it was done correctly,” Weaver explained. “We had four car seat events [in 2025]. Now, two of our own staff have been trained – they are now certified technicians.”
Having on-site staff who can conduct the programs became a goal after “scrambling” to find someone that could help a family whose baby was born several weeks early.
“One of our clients had new baby that came six weeks early, and we needed to get this family a car seat so they can take the baby home from the hospital,” Weaver said. “We have a fire station right across the street from us and one of the firemen is certified, so we called him. He came over and did a one-on-one instruction with the dad.”
A car seat event is scheduled for the end of January, she added.
As South Texas Pregnancy Care Center steps into its 26th year, Weaver remains awed and grateful for the support the organization receives.
“God has just blessed us,” she said. “We have found such favor with our community.”
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