Walking With Moms in Need (AOD)

Your Impact - Empowering Parishes to Launch Walking with Moms in Need Ministry

Walking with Moms in Need is an opportunity for Catholic parishes and communities to "walk in the shoes" of local pregnant and parenting women in need, accompanying them in friendship and helping to connect moms with local resources. The work of the Archdiocese of Detroit and Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan is to equip and empower parishes to launch their own Walking with Moms in Need ministry to help the moms in their local community. The funds we raise will be distributed as grants to parishes to aid in the forming of their Walking with Moms in Need ministry. 

Your gift will:

• Enable parishes to launch WWMIN ministries with $5,000 "start up" grants
• Create new ministries ensuring that geography isn't a factor in determining which moms get support
• Empowering volunteers who are passionate about supporting expecting and new mothers

Every donation—large or small—gives mothers hope in their time of need.

Who We Are

Driven by the nationwide United States Catholic Conference of Bishops’ Walking with Moms in Need initiative, the Detroit Walking with Moms in Need initiative is a partnership between the Archdiocese of Detroit and Catholic Charities of southeast Michigan, which equips and assists Catholic parishes and parishioners in raising awareness about resources that assist pregnant and parenting moms in need. The initiative seeks to make each parish in the Archdiocese a place where moms and their babies are welcomed and supported and where the dignity of every human life is upheld and valued.

As members of the Body of Christ, we are called to help moms in difficult circumstances, and we should know how we can best support them. While not trying to turn Catholic parishes into pregnancy centers, we can support local pregnancy centers where they exist. We can also find and share other resources with pregnant and parenting women that will serve them and the young lives entrusted to them.