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Pregnancy Resource Center of Atchison
Pregnancy testing, parenting education, baby supplies, and advocacy for women in and around Atchison. Often the first place a family reaches us.
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Help bring life into the world.
Marian Ministries houses and walks with mothers, children, and families across Kansas City and northeast Kansas.
A family of Catholic ministries · Two maternity homes, a pregnancy resource center, community outreach, and two thrift stores.
85% of the families we serve are in their own homes, not ours.
What we do
We don’t wait for a family to come to us
We run two maternity homes in the Kansas City area and a pregnancy resource center in Atchison. We also send case managers out to the families we don’t have room to house, which turns out to be most of them.
Between 100 and 150 women are referred to us each year. Our houses hold a fraction of that, so we go to the rest. On any given day, a staff of about twenty is walking with a hundred families, and eighty‑five percent of those families are in their own homes and neighborhoods rather than in ours.
100–150
Women referred to us each year
100
Families walked with on any given day
85%
Served in their own homes and neighborhoods
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Government funding — this work is donor‑carried
The ministries
Several front doors, one mission
Each ministry is a piece of the same work, and a woman might reach us through any one of them.
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St. Mary’s Home for Mothers
Our primary residential home, where a mother can live with her children while she rebuilds. Case management, parenting and life skills, spiritual support, and postpartum care.
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Nativity House KC
A three-bedroom home for pregnant mothers, following the same model of care as St. Mary’s.
Visit nativityhousekc.org →Mark
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Community Outreach
The largest part of what we do. Case managers who drive out to the families we cannot house, week after week, for as long as it takes.
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Mission Thrift Store
Two stores, in Atchison and Gladstone. The Atchison store is staffed entirely by mothers who have come through our programs, and the revenue helps sustain every other ministry.
Inside the homes
Inside St. Mary’s Home and Nativity House
A mother who moves in gets more than a bed. There are two orchards to work and a garden to cook from. There is pottery, music, and art. There is a chapel that stays open.
There is also real clinical care. We use evidence-based therapy and track depression, anxiety, and postpartum depression with the same assessments a good practice would use, so we know when a mother is genuinely getting better and when she needs something different.
We don’t only do good work here. We check that it works.
Mothers are assessed with the PHQ‑9, GAD‑7, and Edinburgh scales — the same tools used in clinical practice.
Your part
None of this happens without you
Marian Ministries receives no government funding. Every bed, every case manager’s mile, every bag of groceries is covered by people who decided this mattered.
Most of them are from around here. They aren’t looking to be thanked, and a good number would rather not be named at all. They just want the work to keep going.
Pray with us
This is the first thing we ask for. Mass is Wednesday mornings at 9:30, and Adoration is the first Friday of every month. You are welcome at both.
Give your time
More than thirty groups come through in a typical week. Parish groups, students, families. Some mulch the orchards. Some sit with our mothers. We’re also training a new group of Marian Mentors this fall, and we’re looking for men as much as women.
Find a Way to Serve →Give
Fifteen dollars a month goes further than you’d expect, and a recurring gift is what lets us plan a year ahead instead of a month.
Become a Monthly Partner“
A place where a mother is met where she is, and walked with from there.
Placeholder · client is gathering new testimonialsCome see us
Light the Night Gala
September 11 · The View at Briarcliff
Our largest night of the year, and what’s raised there shapes what we’re able to do for mothers and families over the following twelve months. It covers program expenses at St. Mary’s Home and Nativity House KC, community-based care across the metro and northeast Kansas, and basic costs for the stores in Atchison and Gladstone.
Sep 20
Marian Mentors Training
Church of the Nativity
Dec 14
Christmas Open House
On the grounds
Apr 8, 2027
Topgolf Fundraiser
Our spring outing
Every week
Mass & Adoration
Wednesdays 9:30 AM · First Fridays
Who we are
Marian Ministries of Kansas and Missouri
Marian Ministries provides life-affirming support and resources to women, children, and families facing crisis. Guided by faith and compassion, we offer safe housing, material assistance, and spiritual care that fosters hope, healing, and long-term stability.
Our StoryBringing life into the world
There is a mother somewhere in Kansas City tonight
She doesn’t yet know any of this exists. Help us be there when she calls.
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