A Foundation for a New Kind of Care · Est. 2025

Restoring the Soul of Health Care

Relationship. Empathy. Dignity — in primary care, midwifery, doula support, and birth. We're a Foundation, laying the groundwork for whole-person care across Southwest Michigan. You can help us build it.

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A registered 501(c)(3) ministryIncome-based rates available upon request

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Our Mission

Bringing Healthcare Back to Its Roots.

For too long, care has been rushed, transactional, and impersonal — families treated as insurance codes instead of image-bearers of God. We're restoring what healthcare was always meant to be: relationship, empathy, and dignity — woven through every visit, every birth, every family we serve.

Primary Care Midwifery Doula Care Birth

We are a Foundation — and we mean it. We're laying the groundwork to return to the practice of healing, not the business of medicine — where families are known and cared for — not reduced to a billing code or rushed through a ten-minute visit. That's what makes this a ministry, not a marketplace.

The Need Is Real, and It's Here

These Are Not Statistics From Another City. They Are Our Neighbors.

Across Southwest Michigan, mothers and infants still face gaps in care that should be unacceptable to all of us — not because the medicine doesn't exist, but because rushed, transactional care leaves the most vulnerable families unseen. Together, we can change that.

Kalamazoo has become Michigan's success story. Just east, in Battle Creek, the need is greater.

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births · 2022–2024

Goal: 5.0

Kalamazoo CountyCradle Kalamazoo

4.5

Battle CreekCalhoun County

5.6

Michiganstatewide

6.3

2.5×

And the gap runs deeper than geography: in Kalamazoo County, Black infants still die at 2.5× the rate of white infants (7.0 vs 2.8 per 1,000). Progress on the average hasn't closed the racial gap — and it persists across our region.

This is why we serve the whole region — rooted in Kalamazoo County, with our vision reaching toward Battle Creek, where the need is greatest.

Deaths per 1,000 live births, 2022–2024. Sources: MDHHS & Cradle Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo County & racial breakdown); MiCalhoun / MDHHS (Calhoun County). Michigan's rate is its lowest on record; the Healthy People 2030 goal is 5.0.

6.8/1k

Calhoun County's overall infant mortality rate — above the state's healthiest counties.

39%

Of households across our region live below the ALICE threshold — 54% in the city of Kalamazoo.

25%↓

Lower cesarean rates with continuous doula support (Cochrane, 2017).

10min

The rushed visit the "business of medicine" allows — no time to treat the whole person.

Sources: MDHHS & Cradle Kalamazoo infant-mortality data (2022–2024); United Way ALICE Report (2024); Cochrane continuous-support review (2017). Michigan Medicaid now covers doula care. Van Buren County rates are suppressed by the state due to small counts.

Why It Matters

Imagine a Mother Who Has Never Been Truly Heard.

She's been a number on a chart, rushed through ten-minute visits, afraid the cost of care will mean going without something else her family needs.

Now imagine her walking into a place where she's given unhurried time, a provider who knows her name, a doula by her side — and care that never asks her to choose between her health and her grocery budget.

That mother is your neighbor. You can be the reason she's finally seen.

— The family Covenant Life is being built for

The Solution

Time Is the Medicine.

We replace the ten-minute rush with unhurried, whole-person care — an integrated team of primary care, midwives, and doulas working as one for every family, body, mind, and spirit.

Relationship, Not Transactions

Unhurried appointments, up to 45 minutes when you need it — time to listen, find root causes, and truly know the people we serve.

Empathy for the Whole Person

Body, mind, and spirit — physical health, mental wellness, food security, and prayer, if you'd like it.

Dignity for Every Family

Income-based rates and a Care Access Fund that grows with every membership — reaching toward the day cost is never the reason a family goes without.

What We're Building

Whole-Person Care, All in One Place.

One roof, one team, one relationship with every family. Our collaborative of providers and services will grow as the foundation takes root.

Direct Primary Care

Unlimited visits, up to 45 minutes, no copays, telehealth Monday–Friday.

Memberships Open Now

Midwifery & Birth Center

Dignified, physiological birth in a home-like sanctuary.

Doula Care

A trained doula for every birth. No woman labors alone.

Postpartum & Lactation

Support through the fourth trimester, plus Centering Pregnancy.

Chosen Life Ministry

Compassionate support for women who choose life, through trusted referral partners.

A Growing Collaborative

As our foundation takes root, we're welcoming complementary providers — chiropractic, natural medicine, and more.

Where Your Gift Goes

Your Generosity Becomes Dignified Care.

We're a Foundation built for stewardship, not margins. Here's exactly what you make possible.

$50/mo

Help Provide Doula Care

Your monthly gift helps provide community doula outreach and training — so no mother labors alone.

$1,800

Fully Provide a Doula

Covers a professional doula for a mother's entire birth — continuous, dignified support start to finish.

$375/mo

Become a Birth Sponsor

A year of monthly giving sponsors one complete Chosen Life birth — prenatal, midwifery, postpartum & birth-center care.

10%

The Care Access Fund

Ten percent of every membership and service is automatically set aside for free and subsidized care — the more our community joins, the more families we can carry.

Our Aspiration

Today, income-based rates keep care within reach, and 10% of every membership feeds the Care Access Fund. Our goal is to grow it — with churches and neighbors beside us — until cost is never the reason a family goes without.

The Ask

We Cannot Do This by Prayer Alone.

We are a ministry built on faith — but faith needs hands, and a foundation must be built. To open this birth center and keep care within reach of every family, we need our community beside us. Three ways you can answer the call:

Give Money

Sponsor care that can't wait — one-time or monthly. Every gift grows the Care Access Fund.

Sponsor Time

Lend your hands and skills — from flooring and finishing to volunteering when our doors open.

Sponsor Products

Donate materials and supplies — flooring, furnishings, and the pieces that make our home whole.

Answer the Call →

“Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” — James 2:17

For Churches & Congregations

Churches, Help Us Be the Village.

The church has always been where the vulnerable are carried. Partner with us to sponsor Chosen-Life births, underwrite care for families who can't afford it, and rally your people — and we'll hand you a free, ready-to-use kit to spread the word.

Partner With Your Church → Get the Free Partner Kit

The Founding Member Invitation

Be One of the 250 Families Who Lay the Foundation.

Direct Primary Care makes everything else possible — it funds our new home and our Care Access Fund. Founding Members lock a rate for 36 months, pay nothing until we open, and start us on day one.

$75

Individual

$135

Couple

$195

Family

$70

Senior

Become a Founding Member →

Founding rates close once 250 families join, or the day we open — whichever comes first. Income-based options available.

250

Founding
Memberships
Ever

The Founding Invitation

That’s the whole number — ever. When the 250 are claimed, or the day we open, founding rates close for good. The first families don’t join a crowd — they plant the seeds a village grows from.

Be one of the first to plant the seed.

Who We're Here For

Every Family. Every Background. Every Story.

The mothers and families of Southwest Michigan — of every color and income — deserve to be seen, known, and cared for.

Hear It From Our Founder

“God is leading the way, and we are just trying to keep up.”

Kristin's own two hospital births led her to midwifery — and a calling to rebuild care around relationship, dignity, and trust. Hear why Covenant Life exists.

Kristin Richards-Capp, LM, CPM — Founder & CEO

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A Family's Story

Hear It in Their Own Words.

Katherine & Kyle Cryderman share their home-birth experience — a family cared for by our founder, Kristin, in her midwifery practice.

Katherine and Kyle Cryderman share their story

Shared with permission. Cared for by our founder, Kristin, in her midwifery practice — Covenant Life is preparing to open its own doors.

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

Psalm 147:3

We are a ministry, not a program — a Foundation laying the groundwork for a new kind of care. We do not serve our neighbors because they are Christian; we serve them because we are. Will you help us build it?

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