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Michigan Resources
 
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!
 
     
    Archdiocese of Detroit
     
    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
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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
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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.
     
 
 
     
    Diocese of Gaylord
     
    611 W. North St., Gaylord, MI 49735
Telephone: (517) 732-5147      FAX: (517) 705-3589
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    Marriage Enrichment
611 W. North St., Gaylord, MI 49735
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    Support Services:
     
    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.
     
    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..
     

    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.
     
     
    Diocese of Grand Rapids
     
    Cathedral Square Center
360 Division Ave. S., Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4501
Telephone: 616-243-0491      FAX: 616-243-4910
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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
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    The diocese web page "Community Life - Adults, Married Couples" includes links to organizations dedicated to supporting adult singles.
     
    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.
     
    Grand Rapids—The Good News Community offers a variety of Divorce Recovery Seminars at various times throughout the year and varied locations around Grand Rapids.  Visit their webpage for more information..
     

    Most Reverend Paul J. Bradley, Bishop of Kalamazoo
     
     
    Diocese of Kalamazoo
     

    Bishop Donovan Diocesan Pastoral Center
215 N. Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3760
Telephone: 269-349-8714      FAX: 269-349-6440
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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
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    Support Services:
     
    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.
     
    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.
     

    Catholic Charities of Jackson
407 S. Mechanic St., Jackson, MI 49201
Telephone: (517) 342-2440
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    Diocese of Lansing
     
    300 West Ottawa St., Lansing, MI 48933-1577
Telephone: (517) 342-2440
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    Separated and Divorced Ministry (part of Catholic Charities - Jackson)
407 S. Mechanic St., Jackson, MI 49201
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Telephone: 517-782-4430
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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.
     

    1004 Harbor Hills Dr., PO Box 550, Marquette, MI 49855-8897
Telephone: 906-225-1141      FAX: 906-225-0437
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    Diocese of Marquette
     

    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
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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
     
    Support Services:
     
    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.
     

    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.
     
     
    Diocese of Saginaw
     
    5800 Weiss St., Saginaw, MI 48603-2799
Telephone: (989) 799-7910      WATS (800) 453-2081      FAX: (989) 797-6670
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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
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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.