Offering Hope, Help and Healing On Issues Related To Relationships, Sexuality, and Childbearing
Programs
Chapter Starter Program
Elizabeth Ministry International and its Chapters Worldwide support families during the childbearing years and beyond with special care and support to those facing crisis and loss.
Elizabeth Ministry Chapters are the vessel through which support is given at the local level. Chapters are created in churches, hospitals, and community outreach groups. They are designed to support women and their families during the joys, challenges, and sorrows of the childbearing years.
Members of Chapters offer prayer and blessings, direct service, peer support, mentoring, educational materials, spiritual nourishment and inspirational resources to women in their faith community.
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Chapter Training Program
Elizabeth Ministry Headquarters provides personal support for chapters via
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Zoom
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In-person
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phone
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site visits
Online training courses, seminars, and webinars coming soon at our
and at EMI headquarters
CALLING ALL ELIZABETH MINISTERS &
WOMEN INTERESTED IN THE MINISTRY!
Connection Opportunities
Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Infant Loss
Our response to miscarriage and stillbirth as Christians must be driven by our belief in the personhood of the unborn and the dignity and worth of all human life. Those who have lost a child through miscarriage or stillbirth need to be validated in their grief, affirmed in their faith, supported by their community, and assisted in their grieving process. Working in tandem with Life’s Connection, Elizabeth Ministry’s sister organization: families facing these crises are supported and affirmed.
1. Written by Jeannie Hannemann, the Pastoral Guide: Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Newborn Loss guide provides pastoral ministers with the background, evidence, and tools they need to provide pastoral care for families who experience miscarriage or stillbirth.
In addition to providing the doctrinal and theological support for this ministry, practical tips for caregivers, and insight into the impact perinatal death and grief can have on family relationships, Pastoral Guide: Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Newborn Loss also includes:
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a response and blessing ritual for parents requesting Baptism for a baby who has died
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private memorial service rituals and ceremonies for families
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information sheets and bulletin inserts to raise awareness within your parish and community
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sample letters, cards, Scriptures, and reflections pastoral ministers can use
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handouts to help bereaved parents talk with other children about the baby’s death
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step-by-step instructions for developing a Grieving Through Grace support group for families
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information on Miscarriage Delivery Aids and burial vessels that honor the dignity of these tiny lives, and so much more!
BONUS: Each book includes access to
over 200 downloadable and reproducible online resources.
2. Written by Krys Crawley, “Hearts of Hope Miscarriage Program Guide” provides churches and organizations a guide to implementing the program to:
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Support families in the church who suffer an impending or past loss
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Implement Sacred Holding Sites for miscarried babies.
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Providing burial and services for miscarried babies
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Assist cemeteries in providing burial sites, memorial stones and areas to bury and honor miscarried and stillborn babies.
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Practical training to support families facing loss
3. One-on-One support through Life’s Connection: home to Elizabeth Ministry:
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Impending miscarriage and stillbirth support
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Arrangement for burial, funeral and service
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Sacred Holding Site for miscarried babies
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Post – loss mentoring and healing
Rosebud Program (English & Spanish)
Discover this unique way to show respect
for the dignity and worth of all life.
The Rosebud Program helps a church identify, pray for, and support those who are pregnant, celebrating birth or adoption, grieving miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, infant or child death, and waiting to become pregnant or adopt. Prayers for grandparent concerns, and troubled times may be added with The Expansion Kit
Each rosebud color has a special meaning and has a coordinating tag and prayer card. The tag has a place for families to write information about a particular situation for which prayer is being requested. Rosebuds are displayed as a reminder to pray daily for the families represented.
A vase full of multi-colored roses! What a beautiful way to represent the many varied needs of your church members and to encourage prayer - one for another.
read our program brochure
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Pink Rosebud: Honoring Pregnancy and Unborn Babies.
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Red Rosebud: Celebrating Births and Adoptions.
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White Rosebud: Grieving With Families Suffering A Miscarriage, Abortion, Stillbirth, Infant or Child Death.
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Yellow Rosebud: Remembering Those Wanting To Conceive or Adopt.
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Blue Rosebud: Troubled Times.
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Purple Rosebud: Grandparents Concerns.
Sacred Steps
Sacred Steps is a ministry for families of little ones from birth to four years of age. This program provides families with materials and resources which educate them regarding development of babies and toddlers, identifies their own growth as parents, provides great ideas regarding age-appropriate activities to do with little ones, and most importantly shares how parents can create homemade holiness!
Women's Retreats (coming soon)
Marriage Retreats
Full Weekend Experience
Single Day Retreats
Even the best marriages have challenges and areas they struggle with. What better way to spend your time than on a Weekend or Saturday pilgrimage to help lay out a path towards a better relationship.
Our approach is Catholic and Christ-centered. Our goal is to foster a closer marital relationship, and greater intimacy with God.
Mother-Daughter Retreats
Elizabeth Ministry International is very excited to offer overnight Mother & Daughter Retreats at our Headquarter Retreat Center, Zechariah House of Healing in Kaukauna. This is an amazing way to strengthen this beautiful relationship with a fun and faith-filled experience.
Elizabeth Ministry offers these special retreats as one way to encourage Mothers and Daughters to invest their time, energy and focus on their relationship by creating a meaningful connection and making special memories.
Retreats are customized for each age group are reasonably priced, and include lodging, snacks, breakfast, lunch, crafts, materials, and keepsakes!
Escape from your everyday routines and participate in activities created to bond mothers and daughters while making memories to last a lifetime.
Retreats are a chance to get away from things that normally distract both of you and allow you to laugh, listen, and talk with each other!
Our pajama party sleepover style activities utilize energizing dynamics, intentional conversations, informative talks, fun crafts, and other special mother and daughter times of connection!
Retreats are held at Zechariah House of Healing
119 W 7th St., Kaukauna, WI
Navigate Betrayal
learn more at
www.navigatebetrayal.com
Are you hurting because of your partner's infidelity, pornography use, or other sexual sins? You don’t have to NAVIGATE Betrayal all alone!
NAVIGATE Betrayal is a Catholic online program offering support from caring professionals and women who know the pain of sexual betrayal.
NAVIGATE BETRAYAL
ANCHORED
RETREAT & PILGRIMAGE
FOR CATHOLIC WOMEN
HURT BY INFIDELITY
The recovery journey will require dependence on Christ as one lets go of old habitual, unhealthy behaviors and begins new behaviors that are pure, healthy and life-giving. Trust in God's plan is critical to recovery.
learn more at
www.ReclaimSexualHealth.com
Reclaim Sexual Health
Unhealthy sexual behaviors are based on a specific way of thinking and behaving that has developed over time through repetition. These behaviors do not define who a person is. Children of God have dignity and worth beyond measure, and our Heavenly Father has given a way out of these unhealthy sexual behaviors.
