Our Mission is to provide the information, education, treatment and care needed to assure that clergy, men and women religious, and seminarians suffering from alcoholism and other related conditions have the best opportunity for quality recovery.

Try our special blends of Guest House Café Coffee. Our coffee is the highest quality fair trade and shade grown coffee on the market today. Only top grade beans from every country of origin are used. They are proprietary blends bringing out a number of desired taste profiles.

Our goal is to make it easy for you to enjoy a great-tasting cup of Guest House Café Coffee while supporting the treatment for clergy, men and women religious.

Each type of Guest House Café Coffee is uniquely packaged providing information about a featured saint.

More than half a century ago, Austin Ripley founded Guest House – with what at the time was a revolutionary Mission. Ripley decided to devote himself to the creation of a treatment program that respected not only the religious calling of priests and religious, but also their dignities as human beings who are prone to addictive diseases just like anyone else.

Opened in Michigan in 1956, Guest House is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to the treatment of Catholic priests, deacons, brothers, seminarians and (since 1994) women religious with alcoholism, other chemical dependencies and related problems.

Guest House will not deny treatment to those we serve due to inability to pay. In fact, over the past twelve years Guest House has provided a total of $ 15,780,000 of free or reduced cost care. We have been able to do so because of our many generous donors who love their clergy and religious.

Typical fundraising efforts include dinners, mailings, golf outings and other fundraising events. It is our hope that people who believe in our cause will support us through the purchase of Guest House Coffee. Try our coffee and feel good with a great tasting cup of coffee in your hands and a warm feeling in your heart.

We offer a proven treatment program specially designed to help priests, men and women religious, deacons, and seminarians recover from alcoholism and other addictions. Guest House will admit any of these men or women who are experiencing difficulties and related issues. Treatment will not be denied because of inability to pay because of the donor-supported patient care programs of this place of hope and healing.

“I had come to Guest House feeling terrible about myself and what I’d become. Guest House did restore my good feeling about myself and sent me forth with a determination to make this new program work. Of course, I am most grateful for this and for the program, and for the support of so many friends, like the donors of Guest House who make it all possible.” – Fr. Ralph

“The most important thing that happened at Guest House was being introduced to Alcoholics Anonymous. That became the link to my lifeline today. The second important benefit was the hope that I could continue as a priest. I don’t think any place but Guest House could have given me that” – Fr. Ray