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Our Sisters in North America have elected a new, 3-person leadership team. Sister- Doctor Rosemary Ryan will serve for 6 years. Sisters Kathryn Gates and Frances Vaughan will each serve for 3 years. We wish the new North American Coordinators God's blessings and success. We also thank those who have served so well over the past 3-6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Sister Juanita Ortega is involved in the Program for Community Health Education (PECES). Aware that socio-economic conditions have a great impact on health, PECES helps to educate basic groups on how to organize. The group members learn to work as a production unit, or to offer services to the general public. Sister Juanita also maintains the educational and preventive clinic in Titicare, one of the most abandoned areas of Barquisimeto, with the Voorselars Sisters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sister Monika Ballani, a social worker in Berlin, Germany, has a special mission with people who cannot hear. She has learned to communicate with them, and to journey with them to find new ways of healing and wholeness. She helps them to become more integrated into the social fabric of life around them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sisters Julia Burkart and Pat Travaline recently participated in the annual prison ministry retreat sponsored by the diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. Sister Julia led the retreat, while Sister Pat spoke about the "Houses of Healing" program that she conducts with women inmates at the county jail. Over 50 persons attended.
January 1,
2006
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