Centacare Pastoral Services

Did you know almost 25% of Australians remember seeing their mothers violently abused by their partner?* Domestic and family violence doesn’t discriminate. In Australia, one in four women have experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner and one in four women have experienced emotional abuse by a current or former partner. Of those women who have experienced violence more than half had children in their care.

When you make a donation to support this vital service, you help turn houses into homes for women and children escaping domestic and family violence. You provide an avenue of escape, and a road to healing – both physically and emotionally.

Jesus longed to meet us in our brokenness, pain, trials and difficulties and bring healing to those parts of our lives. Through your gift to the Centacare Mental Health Hub, this is the mission that your generosity enables. You ensure that people with mental illness are cared for physically and pastorally.

Through your generous support, you sustain this ministry and care for people from every walk of life. Your donation gives people challenged by mental illness a place to turn and plays a pivotal role in their recovery.

For most of us, the idea of being homeless is inconceivable. With friends, support networks and families to catch us when we fall, we know that should the worst happen, we have a safety net of loved ones in place.

But for thousands of people in our local community the loss of security, the fear of not knowing where to turn next, and the grief of not being able to provide a home for their children is very real.

Through your donation to support Centacare’s Homelessness Support Program, you help countless vulnerable people in our local community.

Sometimes it is the confronting things in life that serve as a reminder to live in love. To meet every person on our path with an open heart and without prejudice. This is what you do every time you support Centacare’s prison ministry.

Through your kindness and care to this ministry, you are working exactly where Jesus would be. You are making a tremendous difference to the people we serve.

Through your support, Centacare’s Apostleship of the Sea provides a way for seafarers to stay in touch with loved ones when they are working abroad - enabling them to contact families back home.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, these seafarers have been especially impacted – many of them stuck onboard ship and unable to dock or disembark. They are not allowed back in their own countries, and in some cases, have not seen family or loved ones for months.

The Apostleship of the Sea is the Catholic Church’s Missionary work to the Seafarers whether they be on merchant, passenger, war or fishing vessels. With your support, we can offer care for the spiritual, social, and material welfare of all seafarers without distinction of colour, race or creed.

Your support of Murri Ministry provides pastoral and spiritual assistance consistent with Aboriginal culture and tradition. With your help, this vital ministry can respond to the spiritual needs of the Aboriginal community.

The vision of Murri Ministry is expressed through the Gospel of Jesus, spirituality and culture, care and compassion, social justice, history, faith and action, effective teamwork and positive relationships with non-Indigenous people.

Make a gift now or start a monthly gift to give steadfast support to these vital services.