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What's New: 2003

The following are press releases are from the Glenmary Communications Office unless otherwise noted.
December 2003 Glenmary Calls U.S. Church to Focus Anew on Mission Glenmary,in cooperation with the United States Catholic Mission Association, is sponsoring "God's Missionary People: A New Way of Being Chruch," October 3-6, 2004, in Louisville, Ky. To find out more.

December 2003 Be an Angel for Glenmary This Christmas Give the home missions a gift this Christmas by remembering Glenmary in your will. Or take out a Glenmary gift annuity. To find out more.
Winter 2003 Home Mission News Instilling 'Mission Spirit' in Children Glenmary's Mission Office is committed to helping teachers and catechists identify ways children can actively participate in sharing God's love with the mission areas of the United States.
December 2003 New Book Relates Glenmary Sisters' Struggles to Serve Outside of Confines of Church This new book published by the University Press of Kentucky tells the largely untold story of the 44 women who left the Glenmnary Sisters in 1967 after conflicts with Church hierarchy over dress and rules that these women believed impeded their ability to serve in mountain communities. For a review.
October 31, 2003 Father Ed Haggerty Dead at 79 Glenmarian for 50 years, Father Ed died of an apparent heart attack in Dayton, Ohio. He had lived in residence at Holy Family Church in Dayton since taking senior member status in 1994. Eighteen years of his missionary life was spent in Texas, where he was one of the first Glenmarians involved in Hispanic ministry and Spanish language study. For more.
September 16, 2003 First Woman Joins Glenmary's Vocation Team Carol Masuga, a native of Caspian, Mich., began work Sept. 1 as Glenmary's associate vocation director. Her primary responsibility in this new position is to promote and foster vocations to Glenmary priesthood and brotherhood. Read more about her.
From a Recent Boost-A-Month Club newsletter Providing a Lifeline in South Georgia Scripture tells us to welcome the stranger among us. Father Vic Subb and the members of his two South Georgia missions are doing just that as they "provide a lifeline" to those living in local migrant camps. To see how.
June 2003 13th General Chapter Passes Key Proposals The 13th General Chapter of the Glenmary Home Missioners met June 2-11 in Cincinnati. Key proposals were passed involving Glenmary's policy regarding sexual misconduct with minors and vocation questions. For the actual proposals passed. For a report on the vocation proposals from Vocation Director Father Steve Pawelk.
From a Recent Boost-A-Month Club newsletter Computers Connect Arkansas Mission to Wider World The World Wide Web has become a significant way of linking isolated rural communities to the wider world—and to the larger Church. And for many parishioners in Glenmary's Hamburg, Ark., mission, it also provides a link to home! To find out how.

May 2003 New Glenmary Brother Takes First Oath Brother David Henley, a native of Columbus, Ohio, has a long history with Glenmary, beginning in 1989 when he came to the Glenmary Farm as a high school volunteer. He returned to the Farm as on-site manager of Glenmary’s Appalachian Group Volunteer Program in the mid-1990s. He has also attended Ohio State University, Santa Fe Community College, Brescia University and worked as a professional juggler, magician and unicyclist. To find out more.

April 2003 Glenmary Elects New Leaders A gathering of all Glenmary priests and brothers April 28-May 1 in Nazareth, Ky., elected Father Dan Dorsey as president and Fathers Bob Poandl and Dominic Duggins as first and second vice president, respectively. Read about each man and preview the priorities of new President Father Dan Dorsey.
From a Recent Boost-A-Month Club newsletter Mississippi Mission Opens Parish Center Glenmary's mission in Eupora, Miss., plans to use their new parish center as a tool to serve the needs of the wider community. Read about how this multiracial and multicultural mission parish has become a Catholic missionary community in action.
March 2003 Plans Unveiled for New Chapel at the Glenmary Farm A model of the new chapel to rise from the ashes of the Old Farmhouse was presented to Glenmary leadership in early March. The decison was made to begin construction immediately. The new structure will stand on the site of the Old Farmhouse which burned to the ground in December 2002. To see photos of the model For more information about the fire For more news about the Glenmary Farm
From a Recent Boost-A-Month Club newsletter Habitat Blitz in Mississippi Builds More Than Houses Eighty volunteers from five states helped Brother Joe Steen build two houses in one week in Pontotoc, Miss. The volunteer builders pictured here drove from Cincinnati to participate. Read about their experiences.
March 5, 2003 Glenmary Father Bob Berson Dead at 78 Superior general and president for a total of 14 years, Father Robert C. Berson provided the vision to lead Glenmary through the turbulent years following Vatican II. But serving the "poorest of the poor" was always his passion, forged in the many years he served in Glenmary missions in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. He also served as pastor for Glenmary's mission in Russellville, Ala., where he presided over the dedication of a new church. For more about Father Bob.
February 7, 2003 Glenmary Father Jim Wilmes Dead at 76 A Glenmarian for 46 years, Father Jim served in missions in Western North Carolina, Claxton, Ga., and Hugo Okla. He also worked promoting Glenmary's mission from its Cincinnati headquarters and from an office in Fairfield, Conn. Since assuming senior member status in 1998, he has lived in a backroom at Glenmary's former mission in Robbinsville, N.C. He collapsed shoveling snow Feb. 7. For a feature obituary
January 8, 2003 New Chapel to Rise From Ashes at Glenmary Farm Glenmary's Executive Council agreed Jan. 8, 2003, to rebuild what has come to be known as "The Old Farmhouse” by thousands of high school and college volunteers across the country. The building, used for decades as the main lodging and gathering space for Glenmary’s Group Volunteer Program in Vanceburg, Ky., burned to the ground Dec. 5, 2002. No one was injured in the fire. For the whole story.
January 2003 Join Glenmary in Praying for Vocations January 12-17 is Vocation Awareness Week. Glenmary's Vocation Director Father Steve Pawelk invites everyone to pray for Church vocations—particularly vocations to serve the U.S. home missions. • For information about Glenmary vocation ministry • Who, Me, Lord? A vocation message from Father Steve.

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