Success Stories

Meet those who created and are sustaining ministries to respond to today’s human and spiritual needs. Discover their passion, their ingenuity, their successes and challenges. If you are in a similar ministry, you may want to contact our storytellers to share experiences, ask questions and contribute to the conversation.

	Meet Mary Beckman, SSND, who founded St. Augustine Wellston Center, which provides food and clothing to low-income families. Read about how she faced challenges and found opportunities as she sought ways to serve the people of an aging, troubled section of St. Loius, MO.
	Meet Catherine Britton, SSJ-TOSF, who created a graphic arts ministry. Read about how this ministry fulfills its mission to share the beauty of words through original greeting cards and framed, matted inspirational verses.
	Meet Rosel Feder, SSND, who established Mystic Suites, a ministry that enables her to share beauty through music in order to provide the opportunity for people in this frenzied society to enter into deeper union with the Divine Presence within them. Her outreach includes retreat work and recorded music. Her recordings have been distributed in eight countries.
	Meet Anne Francioni, SSND, the Executive Director of Whole Kids Outreach (WKO). Read about the effots of WKO to provide home-based and in-center health education to more than 1,500 low-income mothers and their children in southeast Missouri.
	Lucy Klein-Gebbinck, MMS directs Camden Wellness a New Jersey non-profit supporting people on the lifelong journey to health and wellness. Read about how Camden Wellness witnesses to the Medical Mission Sisters mission and how the Center is rooted in the Camden community.
	Meet Felicia Mann, SSJ-TOSF, who founded and is the present Director of Marymount Child Care Center and Preschool. Read about how her innovative ministry links the lives of children with retired sisters.
	Meet Elise Silvestri, SSND, who ministers to immigrant women in their homes through the Immigrant & Refugee Women's Program in St. Louis, MO. Read about what motivated her to reach out to women from many cultures to help them with the practicalities of their daily lives.
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