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Care & Compassion
Angels on Wheels
About This Ministry
The Saint Ambrose Angels on Wheels Ministry offers care, compassion, and a home-cooked hot meal to our families that may be experiencing an illness or suffering. An overwhelming majority of our HAPPY recipients have been recovering from surgery, illness, or injury. Our 40 plus angel volunteers deliver the hot meal directly to the person in need so that we can minister to them in the same way. We want to make every visit upon those that we cater to be personal and build Christ's mission of taking care of others!
How We Help
Our volunteers provide:
Request Help or Volunteer
If you find yourself in need, or know someone that does, please contact Joanne or complete the form below.
Contact Information
How to Get Involved
You can help by:
Our Mission
"We want to make every visit upon those that we cater to be personal and build Christ's mission of taking care of others!"
With over 40 dedicated volunteers, Angels on Wheels brings hope, healing, and hot meals to those who need it most in our parish community.
The Gabriel Project
A pro-life ministry supports expecting parents, and mothers/parents of infants (up to 2 years), facing personal and emotional/spiritual challenges. We have resources available to help through the pregnancy and after the delivery of the baby.
If you or someone you know is in need, please call Marietta. The Gabriel Project is free. As your contact person I am "on call" for the national project which I can put group efforts toward.
We are very active in mother buddies looking for hope, during this joyful and sometimes apprehensive time! Our aim is to provide TLC and to assist offering moral and/or and financial/social mentorship as the expecting mother continues forward.
We will stand by you and listen to your concerns and let you aware you to finding a safe three-month assistance or adoption counselor, to whatever the personal resources and/or of and can provide our outreach and contact.
Fill the Crib
October 1 - 20 - Extension of the Church & Narthex
Donations will be collected for the crib and the one carried out the first two weeks of October.
We will be collecting in the following resource manner:
- First two weeks
- Fill the Crib
Donations include: baby clothes, bottles, hand cloths, boots and shoes, socks, diapers of all sizes/pull ups.
Gabriel Project Help Form
If we can assist you please contact us. All calls are toll-free. 330-460-7638.
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Gabriel Angels
The Gabriel Angels are women, a mother's down-to-life eternity behaving like sisters, offering compassionate companionship and Godly charity. Weekly emails will be filled with comradely resources to lead the necessary in the year two needs.
Are we a mom or know of one who is pregnant and in-a-pinch time of uncertainty? Let us know at 330-460-7638 and we will connect you with someone to help through.
A Gabriel Project Prayer
God, our Father, who is wonderful in giving life and care, you lovingly created us sustaining our lives. Bless those children yet unborn. Give courage to mothers and fathers at the moment of crisis, love them through hardships. Fill the one who delivers this service to be blessed, and we ask that through Saint Gabriel Project Volunteers we will humbly serve as guardian angels to those in need.
We ask that You bless the Gabriel Project Volunteers. Sustain in us St Gabriel Angels. Let humility and forgiveness be present as we minister Our Gabriel to the least.
Let them see through your eyes the glory and promise of new life. Amen.
For more information or to request assistance, please call or email us.
"A pro-life ministry supports expecting parents and mothers/parents of infants facing personal and emotional/spiritual challenges."
Military Ministry
The Saint Ambrose Military Ministry was founded to offer care and support to military personnel and their families.
We seek to build a network of parishioners who are current or former military personnel, as well as family members of those who serve or have served. We encourage our members to reach out to one another, share experiences, and provide mutual support.
Our ministry also organizes events and activities to honor our military community, including care package drives, prayer services, and social gatherings. We believe in the importance of recognizing the sacrifices made by our service members and their families.
Our Active Military Personnel
Please keep these brave men and women in your prayers as they serve our country
Sgt. John Smith
U.S. Army
Active Duty
Lt. Sarah Johnson
U.S. Navy
Deployed
Cpl. Michael Davis
U.S. Marine Corps
Active Duty
TSgt. Emily Brown
U.S. Air Force
Active Duty
Spc. Robert Wilson
U.S. Army
Deployed
PO2 Jennifer Martinez
U.S. Navy
Active Duty
Capt. David Thompson
U.S. Army
Active Duty
SSgt. Lisa Anderson
U.S. Air Force
Deployed
If you have a family member serving in the military who should be included on this list, please contact the parish office or complete the registration form below.
How We Support Our Military Families
Prayer for Our Military
Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be.
We also pray for their families, that you would give them strength and peace during times of separation. Keep them united in love and faith. Amen.
Register with Military Ministry
If you or a family member is serving or has served in the military, please register with us so we can keep you connected with our military community.
Upcoming Events
Veterans Day Celebration
November 11 - Special Mass and Reception
Care Package Assembly
Monthly - First Saturday of each month
Military Families Support Group
Third Thursday - 7:00 PM
Ways to Help
Support our military families by:
Contact Information
For more information
contact the parish office
"We honor and support those who serve and have served our country, and we stand with their families."
Employment Ministry
The Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry is designed to help connect you with new opportunities.
The Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry can help you with your job search! We want to match you during the transition and optimize your interests.
We invite you to watch the video and find out more information on our page below.
Interested in 1:1 Career Mentoring?
Email your resume to the Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry at st.ambrose.employment.ministry@gmail.com with the subject "Request for Career Mentoring." Within one week, you will be contacted by a member of our ministry to serve as your mentor.
Career Counseling Available
The Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry offers one on one career coaching to parishioners interested in career changes, whether new to the job market, or experienced employees.
We offer personalized career coaching, which is tailored depending on where a candidate is in their search process. For example, we:
To find out how the Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry can help you with your job search, contact parishioner Rosita at: rosita.vora.employment.ministry@gmail.com
Job Postings in Bulletin
If your organization is hiring, let us know. Send a share, it's free at Office@StAmbrose.us
Guardian Angels Aide/After-School Care
Guardian Angels is looking for a dependable part-time or full-time teacher's aide for our after school care. If you are interested or know of someone looking for part-time employment, please contact Therese Wagner or Bonnie Balog (at 440-234-2291 ext. 142) to schedule an interview. Please email: twagner@ga-school.org or bring it to the contact in person.
We're on LinkedIn and share career/employment opportunities regularly!
Join the Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry's LinkedIn page to:
"The Saint Ambrose Employment Ministry is designed to help connect you with new opportunities."
Ministry of Consolation
CONTACT:
Monica Kortan: 330.225.7843 or MonicaK1@roadrunner.com
The Ministry of Consolation provides compassion, help, understanding, and spiritual support to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. We offer to assist the family with funeral liturgy, and continued support through our bereavement programs. Our Ministry meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. The bereavement program helps to provide comfort and support to those grieving through the use of prayer, music, coping measures, and understanding the pain associated with the loss of a loved one. The series is presented several times per year beginning in February and ending with our Holiday Grief program in November. Following the series we continue with ongoing support with monthly meetings of our "Companions on the Journey" group as we travel along the road to healing. These meetings are on the last Tuesday of the month from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Our Programs
Bereavement Program
Comfort and support through prayer, music, and coping measures
Holiday Grief Program
Special support during the holiday season
"Companions on the Journey"
Ongoing support group for continued healing
How We Can Help
Meeting Schedule
Bereavement Program:
Second Tuesday, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Lehner Center
Companions on the Journey:
Last Tuesday, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Contact Us
If you or someone you know is grieving the loss of a loved one, please reach out to us.
"The Ministry of Consolation provides compassion, help, understanding, and spiritual support to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one."
PB&J Brigade
PB&J Brigade Needs Your Help!
Every week we donate more than 200 sandwiches and families to Hope In the City, a community ministry that helps citizens overcome the burdens of members have showed up as a community to feed our brothers and sisters in Christ!
Supplies Needed
Want to get involved:
How to pack lunches:
Pick up supplied in room sandwiches at house of living lunch! The peanuts were peanuts sandwich building supplies including PB&J, bread, plastic bags and even fruit/ sweet! Use them we compared to those who are hungry or need food throughout the years.
Purchases are sourcing locally made sandwiches. We encourage that sandwiches and snacks be dropped off at the PB&J/sandwich area in the delivery room on Sunday afternoon or by delivery arrangement.
When you make sandwiches, please put pieces of foil in both sides of the bread with when using the Nutella, or an adult/counts would just either for the hand, just which may be used it and could you mark for the sandwich types. Do not cut any sandwiches.
Contact Information
For more information on how you can serve or to make your PB&J Brigade or to ask questions on how to get involved, please contact Gabby Turner at EMiner@StAmbrose.us
MISSION
Coming To Market/During Community Outreach
Second Saturday
- • Meeting → 9:00am
- • Arrive at Pick → 9:30am
- • Serve Breakfast
Ready to Reflect
Spirit open up our hearts, our minds, and our hands, to make sure we are ready to love and serve those who need this love. Let the people know that good people and love is strong and present to help!
Take time this simple task of sharing faith through basic acts of love, is a far for the love in their hearts!
With each bag we make, we make sure we remember that we're all least a sandwich, but we're also sharing God's great love for them.
Look what this class of service would be! In a group, the faces who will receive these gifts often blessing we are reminded that each sandwich is more than bread and idea: Jesus, substance for the giver and receiver. Sent the guide we hand and speak my song!
"Every week we donate more than 200 sandwiches to Hope In the City - together we feed our brothers and sisters in Christ!"
Pro-Life Ministry
Suggested Strengths: Empathy, Responsibility, Positivity, Belief
CONTACT:
Are you truly pro-life?
If pro-life issues are important to you, then we want you. The Saint Ambrose Pro Life Group promotes awareness of the sanctity and value of human life from conception until natural death.
What exactly do we do?
- Inspire & educate our school students to be 100% Pro-life.
- Educate our parishioners on abortion, end-of-life issues, adoption, in-vitro fertilization, natural family planning, human trafficking, health care mandates, and other issues.
- Work in conjunction with our priests to promote the sanctity of life.
- Participate in 40 Days for Life campaigns where we pray for rosary outside abortion clinics and hold signs saying "Pray to End Abortion."
- Attend the annual March For Life in DC.
- Raise money and collect baby items for the local organizations to help mothers and families.
- Attend the annual Medina Life Chain in October.
When do we meet?
The Pro-Life Group meets 4-5 times a year; the months of February, April, August, and December in the Lehner Center from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm as posted in the bulletin.
February, April, August, December
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Lehner Center
Call Trish or Marian to confirm meetings.
Talent and skills we are looking for:
We need someone with new and creative ways to educate our parishioners and school students to increase the awareness of the pro-life message.
We're looking for individuals who enjoy speaking to the parish about Pro-life issues. We welcome fresh faces who simply want to know more about our causes or who are willing to help out in any way they can.
Is this you? If so, please contact Trish today.
Our Mission
The Saint Ambrose Pro Life Group promotes awareness of the sanctity and value of human life from conception until natural death.
We work together to inspire, educate, and support our community in upholding the dignity of all human life at every stage.
Get Involved
Whether you're passionate about pro-life advocacy or just want to learn more, we welcome you to join us.
- ✓ Attend our quarterly meetings
- ✓ Participate in prayer vigils and campaigns
- ✓ Support local organizations helping mothers and families
- ✓ Share your talents in education and outreach
For more information about the Pro-Life Ministry:
"The Saint Ambrose Pro Life Group promotes awareness of the sanctity and value of human life from conception until natural death."
Quilting Ministry
CONTACT:
The Quilting Ministry provides Prayer Quilts to those members in the parish, children and adults, who are ill or struggling with Cancer. We come together with love and companionship to create a quilt for each person to remind them they are covered in God's love. We pray for the healing love of Jesus Christ that they may walk hand and hand with Him through their illness.
About Our Prayer Quilts
Our Prayer Quilts are lovingly crafted to remind those who are ill or struggling that they are covered in God's love. Each quilt is created with prayer and compassion, serving as a tangible reminder of Jesus Christ's healing love.
We pray that those who receive our quilts may walk hand in hand with Him through their illness, finding comfort and strength in His presence.
How to Join
Anyone interested in joining us may call Bonnie Kaltenstein at 330.483.4841.
Meeting Schedule
First and Third Tuesday each month
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Lehner Center, Mark
Join us for an evening of fellowship, prayer, and quilting. All are welcome!
Request a Prayer Quilt
If you know someone who is in need of a quilt, please let Father Bob know so he can coordinate the prayer quilt.
Contact Us
"We come together with love and companionship to create a quilt for each person to remind them they are covered in God's love."
Stephen Ministry CARES
Become A Stephen Minister!
Stephen Ministry is a one-to-one lay caring ministry. Stephen Ministers are congregation members trained to provide high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care to people going through tough times.
If you are experiencing a difficult time in life—grief, divorce, job loss, chronic illness, disability, or other life challenges—a Stephen Minister will walk alongside you, providing emotional and spiritual support.
What is Stephen Ministry?
Stephen Ministry is a lay caring ministry that equips and empowers congregation members to provide high-quality, one-to-one Christian care to people experiencing life difficulties.
Stephen Ministers receive 50 hours of training in Christian caregiving. They commit to meeting with their care receiver (the person receiving care) for about an hour each week, providing confidential, Christ-centered emotional and spiritual support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can receive care from a Stephen Minister?
Anyone experiencing a difficult time in life can receive care. Common situations include grief after the death of a loved one, divorce or separation, job loss, chronic or terminal illness, disability, loneliness, spiritual crisis, or other life challenges. Care is available to both church members and non-members.
What does a Stephen Minister do?
Stephen Ministers listen, care, encourage, pray, and provide emotional and spiritual support. They meet with their care receiver weekly for about an hour. Stephen Ministers are not counselors or therapists, but trained Christian caregivers who offer compassionate, confidential support during difficult times.
What training do Stephen Ministers receive?
Stephen Ministers complete 50 hours of training covering topics such as listening skills, feelings, maintaining boundaries, assertiveness, Christian care distinctives, and how to care for people experiencing grief, loss, divorce, hospitalization, chronic illness, terminal illness, and more. Training uses materials developed by Stephen Ministries St. Louis.
What is the time commitment?
The initial training requires approximately 50 hours over several months. After training, Stephen Ministers:
- Meet with their care receiver for about an hour each week
- Attend twice-monthly Supervision and Continuing Education meetings (2 hours each)
- Maintain confidentiality at all times
How do I become a Stephen Minister?
Contact one of our Stephen Ministry Leaders to learn more and express your interest. They will talk with you about the ministry, answer your questions, and help you discern if this is the right ministry for you. Training classes are offered periodically throughout the year.
How do I request a Stephen Minister?
You can request a Stephen Minister for yourself or refer someone else who could benefit from care. Contact one of our Stephen Ministry Leaders or speak with a pastor. All requests are kept confidential.
Once a request is made, a Stephen Leader will contact you to discuss your situation and match you with an appropriate Stephen Minister. The caring relationship typically begins within a week or two.
Is Stephen Ministry confidential?
Yes. Confidentiality is a cornerstone of Stephen Ministry. Stephen Ministers pledge to keep confidential everything shared during caring conversations. The only exceptions are situations involving harm to self or others, in which case appropriate authorities must be contacted.
Is there a cost for receiving care?
No. Stephen Ministry care is provided at no cost. It is a free ministry of our congregation.
Request Care or Learn More
If you or someone you know could benefit from Stephen Ministry care, or if you're interested in becoming a Stephen Minister, please contact us.
All inquiries are kept confidential.
We're here to care for you during life's difficult times.
Contact Information
For more information about Stephen Ministry or to request care, please contact the parish office.
330-460-7300
"Stephen Ministry is a one-to-one lay caring ministry providing high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care to people going through tough times."
Tender Hearts Ministry
How We Help
The Tender Hearts Ministry offers support, companionship and love to families who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. We understand the unique pain of losing a child and are here to walk alongside you during this difficult time.
Our ministry provides a safe, compassionate space where you can share your story, find comfort in prayer, and connect with others who understand your loss. We offer both immediate support and ongoing care as you navigate your grief journey.
How can we support you?
Whether you've recently experienced a loss or are still grieving from years past, we are here for you. Please let us know how we can best support you during this time.
- ✓ One-on-one companionship and support
- ✓ Prayer and spiritual guidance
- ✓ Memorial keepsakes and remembrance gifts
- ✓ Connection with other families who understand
- ✓ Resources for grief and healing
When did your loss occur?
Understanding the timing of your loss helps us provide the most appropriate support and resources for where you are in your grief journey.
- • Within the past month
- • 1-6 months ago
- • 6-12 months ago
- • More than a year ago
What type of loss did you experience?
- • Miscarriage (loss before 20 weeks)
- • Stillbirth (loss after 20 weeks)
- • Infant loss (loss shortly after birth)
- • Multiple losses
Request Support
If you would like to receive support from our Tender Hearts Ministry, please fill out the information below and we will contact you within 24-48 hours.
All information is kept strictly confidential.
You are not alone in your grief. We are here to support you.
Contact Form
Other Ways to Connect
If you prefer to reach out directly, you can contact the parish office and ask to speak with someone from the Tender Hearts Ministry.
Confidential Care
All conversations and information shared are kept in strict confidence.
Compassionate Support
Our trained volunteers understand the unique pain of infant loss.
Ongoing Journey
We walk with you for as long as you need support in your grief.
"The Tender Hearts Ministry offers support, companionship and love to families who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. You are not alone."
TESTIMONIES
"Being involved with Saint Ambrose makes a lot of sense. It's a way to work together and support our community. For me it is the right thing to do and when you do the right thing, the rest follows. Saint Ambrose has been a good partner for my company and is good for our community.
Roger Nair
Owner-President of NLCI, Owner-President of NEO Group/ Keller-Williams Realty