Zion

About Zion

Zion is a local Catholic ministry, dedicated to helping young men come to know and experience Jesus Christ in their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit, and equipping them to live as leaders and disciples of Jesus in the world.

March 2023 Events:

03/01 Grade Separate/Tribal Games
7-9pm @ Huron Valley Catholic School (The Gym)

03/08 Awake Not Woke with Noelle Mering
7-9pm @ the Renewal Ministries Office (24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Suite L2000, Ann Arbor, 48105)

03/15 Praise & Worship/Adoration
7-9pm @ the Renewal Ministries Office (24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Suite L2000, Ann Arbor, 48105) 

03/22 Individual Tribes Night
7-9pm @ designated Tribe Leader location (TBD by tribe leader) 

For more information contact:

Steve Norman at [email protected]

Harrison Raney at [email protected] or (734) 905-2639

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POLICIES & DOCUMENTS

Steve Norman

Director of Zion

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Steve Norman serves as the director of Zion, a high school boy’s ministry that aims to form young men into missionary disciples of Christ. Steve moved to Ann Arbor with his wife, Katey, and two children, Jeremiah and Kateri, from Stratford, Ontario. He served as a high school campus minister in Canada and is currently finishing his Master of Theology from the Augustine Institute in Denver, CO.

Harrison Raney

id and Zion Missionary

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Harrison Raney serves as an id and Zion Missionary for Renewal Ministries and has a Bachelor's of Science in Public Relations from Concordia University, Ann Arbor. He has served as both a missionary and staff supervisor for NET Ministries in Australia where he was actively involved in leading/planning retreats and speaking at various ministry gatherings for middle & high school students, as well as the mentorship and pastoral leadership for young adult missionaries. He's been married to his wife, Monica, since 2021.

Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

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Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. Renewal Ministries is the sponsor of The Choices We Face, a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world, and engages in a wide variety of mission work in more than thirty countries.

Ralph is also the director of Graduate Theology Programs in Evangelization and a professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit (www.shms.edu). He holds a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ralph as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, and he continues to serve in this capacity. Ralph also was appointed as a theological expert for the Synod on the New Evangelization.

He is the author of the widely read The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, and many books on spirituality and evangelization, such as Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization, and The Urgency of the New Evangelization, as well as many articles in scholarly and popular publications. His most recent book, A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward, examines the forces working to undermine the Body of Christ while also using both Scripture and Tradition to fortify the faithful.

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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