Category: Children’s Home
A Mother’s Journey to Freedom
If you attended the Guardian Society Breakfast you heard Balthazar, in just a few minutes, tell his family’s ten year story of their flight from oppression to freedom. If you…
Read MoreMessage from the CEO: Our Children’s Home
Dear Friends and Supporters, One of the areas this newsletter focuses on is one of our most essential programs, the residential Children’s Home. From the early days of our existence in…
Read MoreThe Story of Arnaud: Using Our Past to Build a Better Future
Meet Arnaud, he is a well-spoken young man, a recent graduate of Hope College, and is about to start his Master’s work in the field of International Development. Currently Arnaud…
Read MoreNew Faces for Operation Backpack 2015
We’re very excited for the launch of Operation Backpack 2015, beginning our twelfth year providing backpacks to children and the less fortunate in the greater Lansing area. The amount of…
Read MoreGiving by Example: Girls of Smith Hall at Children’s Home All In
The truth is, at first, most of the children who come to STVCC Children’s Home are not happy about being there. This is understandable, their lives have been turned upside…
Read MoreOh Our DOG!
It is our pleasure to introduce the newest St. Vincent Catholic Charities employee. Meet “Promise,” the Children’s Home new therapy dog. She has passed all her background checks, clearances, training,…
Read MoreMessage from the CEO: Our Work on Behalf of Children
Dear Friends, Not one of us would dispute the fact that our children, the ones that are in our lives naturally through God’s blessing, or those that enter our lives…
Read MoreMentor Leigh Ann Warner-St. Vincent Catholic Charities
Mentors are so important to the children served at the St. Vincent Catholic Charities’ Children’s Home. It is also a great way for volunteers to connect with a child in…
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