Annual Life Chain

Annually, on the first Sunday in October, LIFE CHAIN invites the churches in each city and town across North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and pray for 90 minutes, while holding a sign with an approved pro-life sign messages.

LIFE CHAIN - OCTOBER 4, 2026

Join pro-lifers from Central Iowa for the thirty-seventh annual Life Chain on Sunday, October 4th from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. We will stand for all the lives that God has created and spend the time in prayer and praise. Parking and signs will be available at Des Moines Fellowship Church, 950 - 35th St., Des Moines 50312. We will stand on the south side of University Ave. and 35th Street and on the west side of 31st St. and Kingman Blvd. Life Chain will take place rain or shine. Stand with us as we give glory to our Creator and thank Him for life!

DES MOINES LIFE CHAIN 2025 PICS

We had many prayer warriors this year, providing prayerful witness and sidewalk advocacy to the women entering the Planned Parenthood clinic.

We even had a passerby come over and join us as she said she felt led by the Holy Spirit to join us in prayer. Despite the darkness of abortion, God’s light always finds a way to shine through.

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The easy-to-hold 18" x 22" Life Chain signs are backprinted to feature Prayer Topics, Songs of Meditation, the Life Chain Code of Conduct, and a compelling statement on The Purpose of LIFE CHAIN.

LIFE CHAIN is a time for prayerful self-analysis, repentance, and serious commitment to helping end abortion in our nation. Accordingly, LIFE CHAIN is not chiefly a demonstration, and its witness is not intended for the viewing public only. Instead, its first goal is to minister to its own participants—to those who call Christ their Lord and hold pro-life messages that declare abortion a grave evil that defames the name and holiness of God (Leviticus 18:21). Indeed the Church that Christ founded has drifted into cold indifference toward the sacredness of human life, and the result has been the mindless surgical killing and mutilation of over 45 million preborn Americans, plus untold millions who have fallen victim to abortive chemicals and medical neglect.

Life chain is not sponsored by PULSE LIFE ADVOCATES, but we promote it and support it.