Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities is a social service agency of the Catholic Diocese of Salina, providing quality services to those in need.  Services include: adoption, mental health counseling, pregnancy counseling, marriage counseling, family life services, and immigrant services. Sessions are scheduled by appointment and can be arranged by calling the office.

Natural Family Planning

Natural Family Planning (the Church approved method for birth control) provides an opportunity for couples to learn about their natural body signs for the purpose of planning or postponing pregnancy without intrusion of drug or mechanical devices of any kind.  It is a way to help couples who have experienced infertility in their attempts to achieve pregnancy or couples who have normal fertility.

Emergency Pregnancy Service

This service provides counseling and other assistance to women who have an undesired pregnancy.

Genesis

Genesis is the local food pantry for Thomas County. Call for rules and eligibility requirements.

Catholic Engaged Encounter

Engaged Encounter is an intense working weekend that will help prepare you for your life as husband and wife.

Marriage Encounter

Marriage Encounter is a weekend program that gives married couples an opportunity to reactivate, improve and grow in their couple communication. It is designed to give couples a chance to get away from the everyday routine of life and to spend time together exploring their marital relationship.

Retrouvaille

Retrouvaille is a weekend designed to provide the tools to help put a couple's marriage in order again.  It consists of a series of presentations or informal talks given by a team of three couples and a priest.  The team presents a technique of communication that enables a couple to take a good look at most areas of their relationship.  Following the presentation, the husband and wife have time in the privacy of their room to discuss the previous talk as it relates to them.  This gives the couple the opportunity to rediscover each other and to examine their lives in a new and positive way.  The technique learned on the weekend is further developed and used to explore additional areas of relationship.

Rachel’s Vineyard

A weekend retreat designed to help those struggling with the emotional or spiritual pain of an abortion to experience the mercy and compassion of God.  It is also an opportunity to surface and release repressed feelings of anger, shame, guilt and grief.  There are many exercises to help grieve the loss of the unborn child and to receive and accept God's forgiveness.  The retreat concludes with a Memorial and Resurrection Service.  The weekend will help the soul find a voice and transform the pain of the past into love and hope.

Covenant of Love

The Covenant of Love Marriage Ministry is a creation of The Alexander House. The Alexander House seeks to build Christ-centered marriages through the teachings of John Paull II and the Catholic Church. Through the Covenant of Love Marriage Group, couples associate with other couples who are building stronger marriages. The couples learn practical relationship skills like communication, conflict resolution and how to meet each others needs. The Marriage Group meets monthly in the church basment and each "Date Night" is has its own topic and does not require couples to attend all "Date Nights."

Go to the Covenant of Love page