John and Colleen Miner

Co-Directors

175 Lake Street

Saranac Lake, New York 12983

Phone: (518) 891-2309

Cell: (518) 524-0774

 cbm510@roadrunner.com

Dear Friends:

Welcome to the Respect Life webpage.  We are honored to be the first lay couple to head this office. Formerly, a diocesan priest performed these duties.

We live in Saranac Lake and are the proud parents of three daughters: Amanda, a DeSales University student double-majoring in Theology and Marriage & Family, Erin, a high school junior and Ellen, a sixth grader at St. Agnes School.

We have been involved in the Pro-Life arena for several years. We have led a group to the DC March for Life for the past nine years as well as the Plattsburgh March for Life. We have planned and taken part in several Planned Parenthood pickets, LIFECHAINS and pro-life events that witness to the sanctity of all human life.  We have worked at the Champlain Valley Right to Life Clinton County Fair booth. We actively fundraise for crisis pregnancy centers and strive to promote an awareness of life issues to the public by means of letters to the editor. We also conduct respect life workshops in order to educate the youth.

John is an investigator with the NYS Police Computer Crimes Unit . He is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and a member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Colleen is a reporter and photographer for the North Country Catholic Newspaper and has written several articles for catholicexchange.com.

We’re both active in youth ministry and have led groups to World Youth Day Toronto and Germany.

Please to not hesitate to contact us with any questions or news you may have concerning Respect Life. We will do our best to keep those in the Diocese informed of pro-life happenings and issues via their pastors, this web page and the North Country Catholic, diocesan newspaper. We’d like to thank the Bishop for allowing us to fill this important role.

John and Colleen Miner

Diocesan Directors