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Toni Ponder welcomed as Director of Province Administration
The Province of Mid-North America welcomes Antonia “Toni” Ponder as Director of Province Administration/General Counsel. In this new role, Toni engages directly with the Province Leader Madeleine Munday, RGS, and the Province Leadership Team. She also works directly with the Province Administration Staff, Sister and Lay Partners-in-Mission, and ministries to actively implement the Province’s core…
Congregational Chapter goes into the deep
The Congregational Chapter is a go! It is scheduled to take place from November 18 through December 5, 2021, at the Motherhouse in Angers, France, if COVID subsides. Preparation for Chapter will occur online through regional Zoom calls, resource gathering and sharing now through September. The Congregational Leadership Team will monitor reports of the coronavirus…
Card ministry begins
A new card ministry sprang up this fall when COVID forced our elderly Sisters to stay locked behind closed doors. Mason Pointe Care Center in St. Louis is home to 22 Good Shepherd Sisters and two lay women who are elderly. The facility is on renewed lockdown due to an outbreak of positive tests for…
Tale of two cemeteries
The Province Leadership Team decided in 2019 to move Sisters’ graves from our private Good Shepherd cemetery in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, to a perpetual care cemetery under the Diocese of Scranton. Leadership made the decision because no Sisters had lived in Scranton for at least 10 years, and the private cemetery needed much work. The…
Technology as a teaching adventure
In early February, a young Sister in Vietnam wanted to improve her English, especially her pronunciation and writing. She contacted her aunt Sister Monica Duong in St. Louis and asked if she knew anyone who could help her achieve these goals. Sister Monica asked me if I would be willing to take on this task….
ICA: Keep a wave upon the sand
Do you remember that line from ‘The Sound of Music’ that went “… how do you keep a wave upon the sand”? That’s what processing the ocean of people, data, emotions, ideals and ideas of the ICA experience has been like – at least for me. Coming from an academic and “start without you” business…