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Your NACSDC Region 6 Representative: Position Currently Vacant.
Please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for regional information, questions, and any other regional matters.
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Resources are organized by diocese. Diocesan offices responsible for ministry to divorced and separated are listed, if known. Complete accuracy is a rarely attainable goal! Please check with the contacts provided. If you are aware of additional resources, changes, or errors please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We intend to add additional content as the development of our web site continues. Please visit often! |
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Archdiocese of Detroit |
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Chancery Building: 1234 Washington Blvd. Ste 1, Detroit, MI 48226-1800 Gabriel Richard Building: 305 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48226-2631 Telephone: 313-237-5800 FAX: 313-237-4644 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Office for Family Ministry 305 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48226-2605 Ms. Kathleen Tomaszewski, Director Office Director: 313-237-5894 Office Facilitator: 313-237-5892 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Metro Detroit—Bethany. Several Bethany chapters in the Metro Detroit area offer a wealth of support options and activities. Chapters include East, Suburban West, South, Rochester, North Oakland, and South Oakland. Please visit the Bethany web page or contact the Family Life Office for up-to-date meeting and contact information. |
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Diocese of Gaylord |
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611 W. North St., Gaylord, MI 49735 Telephone: (517) 732-5147 FAX: (517) 705-3589 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Marriage Enrichment 611 W. North St., Gaylord, MI 49735 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., R.S.M., Director Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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The Marriage Enrichment website contains links to Beginning Experience and Retrovaille programs. Additional details of ministry to separated and divorced are not provided. Please contact Marriage Enrichment for more information. |
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Harbor Springs—Holy Childhood of Jesus. Do you know someone who is struggling with a divorce or feels separated from the Church due to marriage or annulment issues? Please consider joining us for a special meeting at 7:00 P.M., Thursday, December 9, 2010, at Holy Childhood of Jesus Church, 150 W. Main St., Harbor Spring, and let us help you tap into some of the wonderful resources that await you and/or your loved ones. The goal for this ministry is to bring healing, reconciliation, and new life to the separated and divorced in the Diocese of Gaylord. For more information, please don't hesitate to contact Cynthia C. Statler, M.D. by phone at 231.838.8055 or via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
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The diocese maintains a list of affiliate ministries that are active in the diocese, including Beginning Experience (retreat for recently divorced and widowed persons), New Life Ministry (support for the separated, divorced, widowed and never-married), and Retrovaille (retreat experience to help couples rebuild a troubled or broken marriage). Please visit the web page or contact the Family, Youth, and Young Adult Ministry for more informtion. |
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Diocese of Grand Rapids |
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Cathedral Square Center 360 Division Ave. S., Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4501 Telephone: 616-243-0491 FAX: 616-243-4910 Web | Email |
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Family, Youth, and Young Adult Ministry Office of Faith Formation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Director 360 Division Ave. S., Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4501 Telephone: 616-475-1243 FAX: 616-551-5638 Web | Email |
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Grand Rapids—New Life Group. The Catholic Information Center, a community center of the Paulist Fathers, hosts the New Life Group, a support group which ministers primarily to separated, divorced, widowed and never married Catholics — including a New Life Divorce Support Group which hosts ten-week sessions. Visit their webpage for more information. |
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Most Reverend Paul J. Bradley, Bishop of Kalamazoo |
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Bishop Donovan Diocesan Pastoral Center 215 N. Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3760 Telephone: 269-349-8714 FAX: 269-349-6440 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Secretariat for Parish Life and Lay Leadership This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Associate Director — Domestic Church 215 N. Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3760 Telephone: 269-903-0199 Web | Email |
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The Domestic Church office of the Secretariat for Parish Life and Lay Leadership offers "resources, community, and support to all households and every person in a household," including the divorced. The Diocesan Tribunal offers the online booklet A Time for Healing - Procedures of the Diocesan Tribunal. No further mention of ministry to divorced and separated is found on the diocesan website. Please contact the Domestic Church office for more information. |
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Portage—St. Catherine of Siena Parish offers a mentoring program for Catholics who are in the midst of a divorce, support groups for Catholics to process and pray about their experiences, on-going educational programs, healing services and an annulment presentation. Programming is open to any Catholic. For more information, please call St. Catherine Parish at 269-327-5165. |
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Catholic Charities of Jackson 407 S. Mechanic St., Jackson, MI 49201 Telephone: (517) 342-2440 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Diocese of Lansing |
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300 West Ottawa St., Lansing, MI 48933-1577 Telephone: (517) 342-2440 Web | Contact |
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Separated and Divorced Ministry (part of Catholic Charities - Jackson) 407 S. Mechanic St., Jackson, MI 49201 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Coordinator for Separated and Divorced Telephone: 517-782-4430 Web |
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The Separated and Divorced Ministry web page list only contact information — ministry detials are not provided. For more information please contact the Coordinator for Separated and Divorced. |
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1004 Harbor Hills Dr., PO Box 550, Marquette, MI 49855-8897 Telephone: 906-225-1141 FAX: 906-225-0437 Web | Email |
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Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Deacon Dan Powers, Executive Director 347 Rock St., Marquette, MI 49855-4783 Telephone: 906-227-9119 FAX: 906-228-2469 Web | Email |
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Family Life Office, Catholic Social Services This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Coordinator 347 Rock St., Marquette, MI 49855-4783 Telephone: 906-227-9178 FAX: 906-228-2469 |
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Ministry to separated and divorced is not mentioned on the diocesan site nor the Catholic Social Services site. Please contact the Family Life Office for more information. |
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At this writing only the Marriage Ministry has its own web page. The page provides information on the Retrouvaille program for couples that are separated, divorced, or in troubled marriages, but does not specifically mention ministry to separated or divorced individuals. Please contact the Ministry office for more information. |
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Diocese of Saginaw |
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5800 Weiss St., Saginaw, MI 48603-2799 Telephone: (989) 799-7910 WATS (800) 453-2081 FAX: (989) 797-6670 Web | Email |
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Marriage Ministry/Grief Ministry/Social Ministry Sandy Buza 5800 Weiss St., Saginaw, MI 48603-2799 Telephone: (989) 797-6652 or (800) 453-2081 ext. 652 FAX: (989) 797-6670 Web | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Shields—Holy Spirit Parish, 1035 N. River Rd., Saginaw 48609-6864. The parish hosts a support group for divorced and separated every Thursday from 7:00–9:00 p.m. Contact Mary Jo at (989) 781-2947 for details. |
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