Blessings to our UPRISE Godly Counsel

In thanksgiving for wise counsel, enthusiastic support and ongoing prayers for UPRISE we ask God’s blessings upon:

  • Sister Rosemary Loomis, OP, Dominican Sisters of the Peace, Columbus, OH

  • Very Reverend Michael J. Lumpe, Columbus, OH

  • Father Mark Peacock, Pastor of Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Father Timothy Ploch, Member of the General Counsel of the Salesians of Don Bosco Rome, Italy

  • The Most Reverend David J. Walkowiak, 12th Bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Gratitude to our Founding Volunteer Advisors

For coming together over months of volunteer time, guidance, and generous hearts to inspire the design and birth of UPRISE, may God bless your generosity always:

  • Greg Deja, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Colleen Danielle, Maple Shade, NJ

  • Maddi Durbin, New York, NY

  • Howard and Colleen Mitchell, Spring Lake, MI

  • Mark Morrow, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Kelli Smith, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Robin Welsh, Rockford, MI

  • Grace Welsh, Rockford, MI

Thank you Volunteer Street
Team

We want to recognize and offer a very special thanks to the following individuals and groups who offered their wise counsel, engagement, and prayers during the planning of the launch of UPRISE, for which we are deeply grateful – God bless all of you:

Coleena Keast, Katherine Keast, Marie Mitchell, Carol Mitchell, the entire/extended Robert F. Durbin family, Susan Dutton, Laurie Ivanoff, Annalise Laumeyer, Joseph Felkers, Constance Stormz, Catherine Shaw, Elizabeth Shaw, Simon Vernon, Robert Gilmore, David Faber, Jean Katt, Alec Saturley, Mark Mann, Greg Ghering, Monsgr. William Duncan, Bill Lawrence, the Roy Shaw family, Patti Spring, Annie Rzepecki, Randy Hodge, Ken Rasp, Cindy Kneibel, Sean Maltbie, Catholic Central High School’s Principal’s Advisory Committee, St. Mary’s Catholic Church Women’s Group in Lowell, MI, St. Mary’s Foundation Special Gifts Committee in Grand Rapids, The Catholic Foundation of West MI, Kurt Filla of FillaLifeMedia, Don Kalisz, Kelly Kalis, Corine Smith, Pete Lounsbury, Cindy Huston, and the whole Revel team!