Turn Your Faith Into Action This Jubilee Year
By Serving Your Community!
Friday, April 25
Join Catholic Charities West Michigan Days of Hope initiative, a special time set aside to serve those in need. Choose from a variety of unique opportunities to help those in your neighborhood thrive, including:
- Shopping alongside families at St. Gianna’s No Cost Baby Boutique
- Building Gianna Boxes or Baby Showers in a Box for expectant parents.
- Creating self-care kits to help families in need.
- Packaging home-delivered meals to reach those who are homebound.
The day is a chance for you to provide tangible signs of hope in the lives of those who need it most. Together, we can offer support, build relationships and create a sense of community and belonging for all.
Sign up today at rebrand.ly/CCWMJubileeDaysofHope
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)
Wednesdays, April 30 and May 14 & 28, 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.
Exploring Priesthood Discernment Opportunities
Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm
St. Luke University Parish (10144 42nd Ave, Georgetown Twp.)
Discernment is a time of obtaining spiritual guidance and understanding. If you are considering the priesthood, the Diocese of Grand Rapids invites you to meet each month with other young men in high school and college to gather and discern God’s will for your life. Feel free to show up or email preynolds@grdiocese.org to let us know you are coming. If you have questions, contact Fr. Rob Mulderink (Director of Priestly Vocations) at frrob@lukespot.com.
Discerning the Diaconate Information Session
Monday, May 5
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Cathedral Square (360 Division Ave S, GR)
Has the Vocations Prayer we read at every Mass moved you to question if God is calling you to become a deacon? The Office of Diaconate Formation invites men with interest or questions about discernment and formation to a Discerning the Diaconate Information Session
Please RSVP to Deacon Jerry Roersma at jroersma@grdiocese.org or 616-288-0913.
Pilgrimage to the Solanus Casey Center
Wednesday, May 14
Bus departs GR at 6:30am and returns at 5:30pm
Searching for peace? Join Catholic Charities West Michigan as they embark on a pilgrimage to the Solanus Casey Center in Detroit. Inspired by the life and example of Blessed Solanus Casey, the center serves as a place of pilgrimage, healing, reconciliation and peace — a perfect opportunity to draw closer to God in this Jubilee Year. Partake in Mass, tour the center and more.
Tickets are $70 per person, which includes your bus ride to and from the center and lunch.
For more info or to register, visit ccwestmi.org/jubilee-year.
Questions: contact Sarah Stechschulte at sstechschulte@ccwestmi.org
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.