In 2008 Resurrection Catholic Missions celebrates our 65th year of service. We formally began our work in 1943 as Nazareth Catholic Missions. For several years previous to 1943, Resurrectionist Fathers and Brothers worked with Father Harold Purcell, at the City of St. Jude, also located in Montgomery.
The initial focus of our work was the African-American community of north and central Montgomery. In rapid progression programs in evangelization, social service, health care and education were established. The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth helped to staff the school and residential facility for challenged children.
In 1964, largely through the efforts of Father Walter Mikosz, C.R., the Mission broke ground for a new multi-million dollar complex of buildings a few miles from our initial site on the banks of the Alabama River.
The complex consists of a school, church, residential treatment center for challenged children, convent, rectory, administration and service center. In 1978 Resurrection assumed the management of Holy Spirit Catholic Missions’, another Congregation of the Resurrection ministry, 20 bed nursing facility for indigent women.
In 1991 our school was merged with St. John the Baptist Grade School, founded by St. Katherine Drexel. In recent years special outreach programs for the homebound elderly as well as drug abuse and violence prevention programs aimed at public housing youth have been developed.
In January 2003 Resurrection Catholic Missions opened the Resurrection Life Center in Millbrook, some 11 miles north of the main campus. This state of the art facility offers skilled nursing care, assisted living and independent living services for seniors and challenged young adults. It provides a continuum of care for young people who are no longer eligible for care in our children's facility.
Today Resurrection Catholic Missions is a multiethnic community of women and men which includes believers of many religious traditions, the physically and mentally challenged, the able-bodied, laity, religious and clergy all committed to resurrecting those who continually are placed on the margins of our society.