The soft opening of the Sacramento Memorial Garden for the Unborn on September 10, 2016, was a moving and healing event. Pastors and leaders came from all over the Sacramento region to bless and honor the work being done to establish a serene place to honor the unborn or stillborn. Representatives from different churches, counseling groups, and pregnancy centers came together to dedicate the garden as a healing setting for those who have experienced pregnancy loss.

 

Pastor Jeff Axtell opened the ceremony in prayer and ended it with a tour of the memorial garden. The atmosphere surrounding the event was filled with both emotion and unity, culminating at the wall of remembrance where names of unborn or stillborn are etched on the granite wall. One man said, “I did not expect to feel so emotional. This was so moving.” He summed up what all of us experienced that morning in the tranquility of the memorial garden.