The ABC Pregnancy Help Center in Pratt will soon be hosting a benefit garage sale. Bring donations for the garage sale to 310 North Oak. They can be left on the porch if no one is available. The center is open Tuesday and Thursday from noon-5 p.m. For more information, call (620) 672-2224. Proceeds will be used for an emergency fund. Donated items are also needed for the center, including size 4 and 5 diapers, baby clothes, maternity clothes, cribs, car seats, high chairs, and swings, etc. Volunteers are also needed.

Those who have suffered the loss of a loved one through separation, divorce or death can find healing and comfort on a retreat especially designed to help them through the grieving process. The loss can be one of life’s most traumatic experiences. It can result in nearly unbearable feelings of loneliness and grief, especially around the holiday season. The retreat offers the opportunity to move forward toward a new beginning in life with renewed hope and energy.

The Beginning Experience Retreat is a weekend program to help the grieving single-again persons move from the darkness of grief into the light of a new beginning. The next Beginning Experience is Sept. 23-25 at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, 7100 East 45th Street North in Bel Aire. Please contact Walter Rooney at (316) 794-7361 (eve) or Beverly Pieplow, (316) 264-4876, for additional information. Advance registration is required.

English -- Sisters Renee Dreiling OP and Jolene Geier OP

Spanish -- Sisters Matilda Monterrose MCMI and Maria Elena Martinez MCMI

When: Feb. 18, 2006 Great Bend, Heartland Center for Spirituality (English and Spanish) and

Feb. 25, 2006 Dodge City, Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral (English and Spanish) 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20 Nov. 10; Thursdays Noon-1p.m.

Presenters: Heartland Center Team

Cost: $ 40 (includes book); Lunch may be purchased in the dining room for $5.50.

"In the light of our knowledge today, what is the appropriate relationship of human beings to the earth? When the earth inspires awe as an intricate life-support system for all species, we should treat it accordingly." Register by August 15 so books may be ordered. To register, contact Heartland Center for Spirituality, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend. (620) 792-1232. Email: office@heartlandspirituality.org.