Upcoming Events

Are you in the mood for some golf on a sunny Sunday afternoon?
Here is your chance to play golf, while also supporting our agency's mission, services and programs.

WHEN: 06-24-2012
WHERE: Bluff Creek Golf Course (2710 South Old SR 37 in Greenwood, IN)

• Registration is $60 per person and includes green fees, carts and dinner.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
Registration 12 Noon - 1:15pm
Shotgun Start 1:15pm
Dinner & Drawing for Door Prizes follow the Outing

Please contact Valerie Sperka (Director of Special Events, Catholic Charities of Indianapolis) at 317-592-4072 or email at vsperka@archindy.org

Can't Attend?
You can still be part of this Event by purchasing a flag expressing your sentiments about adoption. Flags are $25 and will be placed on various holes throughout the golf course.

Please contact Priscilla Kamrath (Director of Community Relations, St. Elizabeth / Coleman) at 317-787-3412 or email at pkamrath@secindy.org
(by 06-15-12)

We are aware that there is a need to provide a support group for birthmothers that have previously placed their children for adoption. This group meets once per week for 6 weeks, lasts one hour, and is held at the agency. Please contact Cheryl Garlinger, if you would like to attend this group.

If you are a birthmother that has previously placed a child for adoption and are looking for a way to help new birthmothers and come together with other birthmoms - Here is your opportunity:

The purpose of this group is for birthmothers to come together and use their arts & crafts skills to decorate “Memory Boxes”. Memory boxes will be given to new birthmothers after they have made an adoption plan for their child. A birthmother can use her box as a safe place to keep any memorabilia of her baby. The group of birthmoms will fill each box with items to help the new birthmother through the emotional grieving process after placement. This group will benefit the group members in coming together and “giving back” and it will also benefit the new birthmothers by receiving a gift that was made by someone that has gone through the adoption journey.

If you are feeling artsy & crafty and would like to help others, please contact Nadja Radtke.

More Information to follow.

The feedback and success was great at our last Family Reunion Picnic. Therefore, we are planning another one! More details to follow...

On May 12, 2012, we held our 2nd Annual Birthmother Celebration Luncheon. Birthmothers that previously placed their children for adoption attended and celebrated one another. This luncheon honors all birth mothers for their courageous decision to choose life for their children.

It was a delightful plated luncheon. The program included birthmothers giving testimonials, poems and Bible verse to the love of their child and the choice of adoption. Beautiful music was played by a harpist and two sisters, Becca and Tabea Meyer performed the touching songs, “Long Way Home” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” The program ended with the mothers writing a personal message on a balloon and releasing them into the sky.