PHILA, PA
OUR HISTORY
est. 2000
It all started in 1999, when our founders Michael McMonagle and Brandi Swindell attended an international pro-life conference in Dublin, Ireland. They noticed that while every other country was represented by speakers in their mid to late twenties, the youngest speaker from the United States was 46!
This inspired them to create an opportunity for young men and women to build a culture of life through pro life and chastity education. Generation Life began speaking in the public, christian, and catholic middle schools and high schools in the year 2000, while also staying active in pro-life ministry and leadership. Since then, Generation Life has spread the good news of life and love across the United States and even internationally!
MISSION STATEMENT
We are committed to building a culture of life by spreading the truth that every human person is worthy of authentic love. Our speakers educate students, parents, and teachers on the dignity of human life and the virtue of chastity. By inspiring the next generation to embrace life and love authentically we will end abortion at its root cause.
OUR WORK
During the 2025-26 school year, we reached over 6500 students across 7 different dioceses with our pro life, chastity, and dating with dignity talks.
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applications are now open!
June 2027-2028
We are looking for enthusiastic young people who are interested in committing to a year to teaching the pro-life and chastity messages.
Your spiritual and financial support is critical at this time as we prepare our missionaries experience.
Chastity is the virtue that allows us to be able to focus our sexual desires, emotions, and attractions toward true love and toward our dignity. It is the good habit of having sexual self control so that we can direct our energy towards good and loving relationships that ultimately pave the way for happy marriages.
All of us were made to love, to make a “gift of ourselves” for others. When a husband and a wife enter into the sexual embrace, they give each other their whole selves, in complete vulnerability and connection. What they communicate with their bodies is an expression of what they communicated with their vows, that they will love and cherish each other “until death do us part.”
One of the things that chastity involves is abstaining from sex until marriage. But chastity is so much more than just abstinence, it is a lifestyle–a lifestyle of saying “yes” to real love. Chastity shows us how to respect ourselves and others by recognizing and upholding the goodness and dignity of the human body, bringing richness and beauty to our relationships and to our life.
all of these questions were asked by real students this school year!