Catalog of Ministries
Our catalog is continually growing. It is provided here to help inform and inspire you to become engaged in philanthropy. Our hope is that you will get involved. The rewards will be great.
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Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center
Biography
The mission of Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center is to enrich the lives of Catholic and other Christian youth and their families by providing a Christ-centered environment with retreats and facilities in a natural setting.
We are located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country about six miles from Burnet. Eagle’s Wings Retreat Center hosts many retreats and events for youth and adult groups, churches, businesses, and schools.
East Lake Academy
Biography
The mission of East Lake Academy is to provide our students with an integral formation to develop them as Christian leaders. The East Lake student should be a young person of integrity and character who commands an appropriate wealth of knowledge of his faith, the humanities, and the sciences. The student should display critical discernment and possess a disposition to service. Our educational program of integral formation consists of three essential elements: teaching, educating and forming.
To teach means to provide the student with the intellectual capabilities, content and skills needed to respond to the demands of today’s society.To educate means to train the student in the habit of intellectual rigor, structured reasoning, and in the appreciation of beauty; it means to cultivate sensitivity, memory, imagination; and finally, to develop the art of communication and the ability to express oneself clearly and elegantl. To form is to foster in each student the foundation of all virtue and integrity, leading the student to become a person for others, with an upright ethical code and sensitivity toward the needs of others. East Lake Academy strives to build the complete person in its students, developing their full potential by teaching the mind, educating the heart and forming the will. We aim to serve society by promoting in our students academic excellence, spiritual growth and personal development, thereby creating future leaders for the Catholic Church and society as a whole.
Eden Invitation, Inc
Biography
Eden Invitation creates space to receive the whole person, grow systems of mutual support, and empower for creative discipleship. We are disciples with LGBTQ+ experiences, building community with others who desire a way of life in congruence with Christ and His Church.
Elizabeth Seton High School (Bladensburg, MD)
Biography
Elizabeth Seton High School educates young women in the spirit of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Vincent DePaul stressing Catholic values, academic excellence and service to those in need. We serve a diverse population from several counties in Maryland and the District of Columbia. The socioeconomic status of the students attending Elizabeth Seton High School ranges from low income to middle income. Of our students, 50% receive financial assistance and single-parent homes make up 29% of the student body. Special support is given to the financially poor as far as possible. The school provides a challenging college preparatory program for all young women who seek a community that celebrates diversity and creativity, fosters moral, spiritual, academic and physical growth, and promotes the Gospel values through service to others. Seton provides students with a solid academic foundation designed to stimulate intellectual curiosity and a love of learning. Our students are challenged to think critically, to organize their thoughts logically and to express ideas effectively. Our mission gives the student a strong foundation for growth in Christian leadership and service for the future. We are in a unique position, not only to educate young women academically but also to address the needs of our students as they take their place in a culturally diverse society.
Elizabeth’s New Life Center
Biography
Mission: Established in 1989, Elizabeth’s New Life Center will celebrate our 25th anniversary in 2014. ENLC has grown from a single women’s center to six, a prenatal care center, and a marriage education center serving the needs of fragile families throughout Southwest Ohio and the Miami Valley.Our mission is to “empower individuals and families to make healthy life choices respecting the value of each person created by God.” In 2012, we served more than 5,000 unique clients through our women’s centers, registered 155 births through our prenatal care center, and served almost 3,000 middle and high school students with sexual risk avoidance education. We also served another 5,000 through our Marriage Works!
Emmaus Ministry for Grieving Parents
Biography
1- To serve the spiritual needs of parents whose children of any age have died by any cause, no matter how long ago.
2- To spread the ministry throughout the US by working with Dioceses/Parishes and parents who want to adopt the ministry on an ongoing basis.
3- To answer the call of the holy spirit to bring peace, comfort, and hope to grieving parents.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Program for Immigrants, Scranton, PA
Biography
The Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania, operates this program. The IHM Sisters work together to meet the educational, healthcare, social and spiritual needs of those whom we serve. Efforts to promotejustice for local immigrants highlightthe need for an ESL program in South Scranton to serve the fast growing Latino population and other immigrant groups living in that area. Experience in the program provided a depth of understanding regarding the challenges faced by learners, cultural differences, and the components of effective language and literacy programs. Feedback from the adult learners indicated consistent progress in the language as well as a sense of belonging and community fostered by the program. Sixty-seven adult learners are currently enrolled in the program, which runs 38 classes or sessions per week.
The IHM Congregation is a 501(c)(3), religious organization incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn
Biography
The Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn is the Diocese/Eparchy for Maronite Catholics that live in the 16 states on the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. The mission of the Eparchy is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, assure the availability of the Sacraments, and offer pastoral and catechetical programs to the faithful throughout the Diocese. In addition to our 43 parishes and missions, the Eparchy has a dozen offices that serve the faithful such as the Office for Religious Education, Office of Family and Sanctity of Life and Office of Ministries.
Epiphany Center
Biography
Since 1852, Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth(doing business as Epiphany Center) has been serving San Francisco’s at-risk families. The mission of the agency is to promote and strengthen family life through programs faithful to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, rooted in Judeo-Christian values and the tradition of services of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.
Epiphany Center provides life-changing services annually for over 200 of the most vulnerable women, children, and the families in San Francisco. Programs consist of Residential Drug Treatment programs for women and their children up to three years of age, a Parent-Child Center for early intervention of infant prenatal drug exposure, Family Therapy for children with stress and trauma, In-Home Services for at-risk families, and a Pediatric Clinic for high-risk children.
Eternal Word Television Network, Inc.
Biography
Eternal Word Television Network is dedicated to the advancement of truth as defined by the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. The mission of the Eternal Word Television Network is to serve the orthodox belief and teaching of the Church as proclaimed by the Supreme Pontiff and his predecessors. The goal of the Eternal Word Television Network is to provide the means by which the various organizations within the Church will have a nation-wide vehicle of expression. This will be provided for them without charge as long as their spirituality remains within the theological context of Mother Church. This is best evidenced by the acceptance of the Dogmas, Rules and Regulations of the church in all matters, but especially as they relate to the topics on which their television presentation is based. As the Eternal Word Television Network exist to provide a media for orthodox endeavors, this mission statement should be viewed as the basis of our foundation for this essential spiritual growth ministry, not as an attempt to censor any organization or individual.
EV (Earthen Vessels, Inc)
Biography
Earthen Vessels mission is to transform lives. We prevent low-income youth (grades 4-12) from Roxbury and Dorchester, MA, from dropping out of school; systematically strengthening core academic skills, organizational habits, and other life skills; and successfully matriculating 100% of our EVkids seniors in college. We do this by recruiting, training, and mobilizing a motivated volunteer corps of top Catholic university students who provide multi-year, one-on-one after school tutoring and mentoring, supported by professional family and school advocacy, and a life changing summer camp experience. By engaging at-risk youth and university students in multi-year, mutually enriching relationships, we believe our EVkids and their EVcorps tutors will become integral parts of a more socially just, tolerant, and compassionate world.
Everest Academy of Lemont, Illinois
Biography
Our goal is to offer each child the highest quality education through Integral Formation, the pedagogical method developed by the Legionaries of Christ. Through Integral Formation, each student benefits from a personalized approach that develops the whole person, from intellect and character to spiritual life and apostolic responsibility. The result: intelligent, responsible, and positive leaders who will transform society with Gospel values.
Everest offers a Pre-kindergarten program for 3 and 4-year-olds, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 – 8, and currently has an enrollment of approximately 270 students from Pre-kindergarten to 8th Grade.
Everest Collegiate High School & Academy
Biography
Everst Collegiate High School and Academy is an independent, private Catholic school from Pre-K through 12th grade providing gender specific education on a co-ed campus.Committed to excellence in academic, character and spiritual formation through the Legionary of Christ model of Integral Formation, our education is centered on the person of Jesus Christ, devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. The Everest student is capable of success in a rigorous and balanced academic environment, and an Everest family is open to our Catholic mission, understanding the investment of time, talent, and treasure involved with education of their children. Everest families predominantly live in northern Oakland and southern Genesee counties in Michgan; we host boarding students from international families to our middle and high school programs; we welcome high school-aged young women from the Immaculate Conception boarding program.