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Medical Mission Sisters are proud to be a part of the 63rd convening of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. On March 14, Sister Miriam Therese “M.T.” Winter spoke at a CSW parallel event, “Transformative Spirituality: Living in and Through the Spirit,” organized by MMS. The event focused on developing “radical reorientation of behavior and beliefs” for fostering unity.

Caption: Sister Celine Paramundayil, pictured right, gave an opening address for the event. She and Sister M.T., pictured left, posed for a photo together before their presentations.

Anke with woman consultation (2) roselyn PS Kerala Flood Phil from Mo lorraine and immigrants 2 Sr. Mai giving soup for childrens
Sister Dr. Anke Boekenfoerde meets with people suffering from mental illness in Indonesia, gathering data she then shares with the Health Ministry, Ministry of Social Welfare, WHO and various universities.
The local women in Rubanda, Uganda, taught by Sr. Roselyn Ninsiima (in the black jacket), are weaving baskets they will sell in the MMS Health Clinic to support their families.
In Kerala, South India Medical Mission Sisters, including Sr Dolores Kannampuzha (on the right), provided shelter, food and supplies to displaced people after the deadly monsoon in August 2018.
Children in Ang’iya, Kenya enjoy creative expression with North American Associate Phil Pryjma, whose foundation Sawa Sawa supports the local school and MMS medical clinic.
Sr. Lorraine Ryan (center) stands with students at the program she started, Women’s Circle in Boynton Beach, FLA, where almost 300 immigrant and underprivileged women receive free classes and career training each year.
The soup kitchen in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, organized and run by Medical Mission Sisters feeds over 200 hungry residents in the barrio every day.

Your support in 2018 provided:

  • A water purification system so our Sisters, and those suffering TODAY in Venezuela, no longer have to purchase their only water in huge vessels off the back of trucks

 

  • A full year of tuition for youth in the lowest caste in India (disparagingly called rat-eaters), including nutritious food, transportation, books, and other necessities

 

  • New maternity wing in Rubanda, Uganda, giving new mothers and their babies their own space

 

  • Assistance with serving daily meals to over 350 of those without homes in North Philadelphia

 

  • Sewing machines, business workshops, cloth, yarn, and other supplies to help local women in Venezuela, India and Africa establish income-producing businesses

 

  • Aide to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

….. And much more!  Thank you for being our partner in mission as we continue to be a healing presence all over the world. 

Newly-vowed Medical Mission Sisters from around the world and local Associates gather in Germany for a celebration of unity and purpose.

 

Our Mission

Medical Mission Sisters are women full of passion…for wholeness, for justice, for life. Like our Foundress, Anna Dengel, M.D., “it eats us up” when individuals and communities are denied the resources and opportunities they need to live as human beings. It moves us to the core of our being when and where people are made poor, are oppressed or are overwhelmed with a sense of powerlessness.

In our broken, wounded world, Medical Mission Sisters are called to live as a healing presence. We try to bring about a world where all live in harmony and where no one is in want. We try to live as Jesus lived, with care and compassion for all.

A Community of dedicated women with over 500 Canonical members and 100 Associates, we share life and our own unique expertise with women, children and men on five continents today. We enter into their lives as partners, as peers, as friends. We work together with them to build one world, and be one world, where the gifts of all people, all cultures, all creation are affirmed and celebrated.

Healing Presence

While working as an administrator at the Catholic Colored Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, Associate Rita Engelhardt was baffled at the panic that arose among her colleagues one day because there was no white doctor available for surgery. The doctors at the clinic had always been white but, to Rita, the solution was obvious. She suggested hiring a doctor of color and, two weeks later, the staff followed her advice. Before long, there were seven black doctors working in the clinic. Rita, who then was a professed Medical Mission Sister with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, helped to establish a Holy Family Hospital in Atlanta in 1964. It would be the first integrated hospital in the city.

In 1967 Rita left the MMS community and remained living in Atlanta rather than returning to her native Detroit. In addition to working as an associate professor of nursing at Georgia State University for 15 years, in 1976 she began meeting annually with the “Southern Gathering,” a group of MMS as well as nonmembers from Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. At a 1980 meeting, she was invited to be a part of a committee that would eventually lead to the creation of the MMS Associate Program.

Now retired and living in Atlanta, Rita reflects on how the program has evolved and grown, saying “it provides an opportunity to be with people whose presence and values affirm, deepen and expand my values. There is a joy in being part of each other’s lives. This joy permeates who I am and what I do.”

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Medical Mission Sisters Websites
Medical Mission Sisters have created a number of
websites to share information about our Community,
its mission and its vision with a wide variety of people.
www.medicalmissionsisters.org presents our worldwide mission
of healing
www.medicalmissionsisters.org.uk is the new Society
website created by our Generalate in London
www.missionsaerztliche-schwestern.org is our German website
www.medischemissiezusters.nl is our Dutch website
www.medicalmissionsisters-uk.org  presents our life
and work  in the United Kingdom
www.mmsne.org focuses on our mission in North East India
www.mmssouthindia.org highlights our mission in South India
www.ayushyamms.org shares the work of our Center for
Healing and Integration in India
www.mmsheal.wordpress.com features our ecological ministry at
HEAL in the Philippines
www.mms-un.org tells of our involvements at the
United Nations

 

Medical Mission Sisters are an organization of Roman Catholic Sisters and designated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization by the IRS