Faith-Based Employment Outreach Program
The St. Robert Roundtable is an affiliate of the Employment and Resource Network and provides a support group and career coaching to the unemployed and people in career transition. The group meets at St. Robert Newminster Parish (6477 Ada Dr, Ada)
Tuesday, January 8 & 22, 2025 from 9:30-11:30am
Our Zoom sessions are on alternate Wednesdays.
Questions? Contact: Bill Weitzel at 616-446-1873 or weitzelwj@aol.com.
More information about EaRN can be found at www.earn-network.org.
Special Jubilee Pilgrimage to Italy
April 28 — May 7, 2025
Join Father Lam Le, pastor of St. John Paul II in Cedar Springs and Mary Queen of Apostles in Sand Lake, along with other Catholics from the Diocese of Grand Rapids as they embark on a special pilgrimage to celebrate the 2025 Year of Jubilee in Italy.
Highlights include:
- An opportunity to attend a Papal Audience
- Participate in a Mass celebrated by Fr. Lam at the Basilica of St. Mary Major
- Visit the Abbey of Monte Cassino
- See the confessional where Padre Pio heard numerous hours of confession
- Tour the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi where you will see the tomb of St. Francis
- Visits to many other popular and devotional sites
Please contact Pattie Reynolds at preynolds@grdiocese.org or call 616-288-0910 for more information or to register. Don’t delay, seats are limited!
Host a Bowl Painting Party for
Catholic Charities’ Soup’s On Event
No matter your artistic abilities, bowl painting parties are a great way to have fun with your family and friends while supporting God’s Kitchen! Catholic Charities will provide you with kits that include paint, instructions, and bowls – providing everything you need to let your creativity run wild! It is $10 to keep the bowl or $8 to donate it back to CCWM for their annual Soup’s On for All event – or paint two – donate one and keep one for $15. To set up a bowl painting party, contact Jean Sullivan at 616-204-3706 or Jsul50@icloud.com
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Volunteers
needed at Trinity Health Saint Mary’s
Volunteers are needed to provide holy Communion to Catholic patients who are at Trinity Health St. Mary’s in downtown Grand Rapids. These volunteers bring the Eucharist as a sign of compassion and concern from the larger faith community for its members who are sick.
If you are currently serving your parish as a minister and could serve a minimum of 4 hours per month as a hospital volunteer, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Laura Conners at connerla@trinity-health.org.
Eucharistic Adoration around the Diocese
Looking for opportunities to spend one on one time with Jesus? The Diocese of Grand Rapids has published an online schedule of weekly days and times when Eucharistic Adoration is available in parishes throughout our diocese. View the schedule at grdiocese.org, click on the “Parishes” menu, then “Adoration Schedules” from the dropdown.
Open your heart and home to a foster child in need!
Catholic Charities West Michigan is in desperate need of caring individuals to open their home to a foster child and show children the love they deserve. Please contact Alix Wanlass at awanlass@ccwestmi.org for more information on the numerous ways you can help.