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Flooding in Iowa, FSPA responds
Submitted on: 7/02/2008Contact Person: Jane Comeau .....read more |
"The China Story" Surfaces
Submitted on: 6/17/2008Contact Person: Pam Brookens Mother M. Dominica Wieneke wrote to her "dear sisters " from her second floor office at Mount St. Francis on July 6, 1928 concerning "...a special meeting that was recently held at the Motherhouse where it was proposed to take up a foreign mission in China as an appropriate gift to the Lord in gratitude for the many favors and blessings received during the past fifty years. ".....read more  |
Photos by Cancer Surviving Nun Inspire Prayer
Submitted on: 6/09/2008Contact Person: Lisa Bellomy When Sr. Elizabeth Thoman, CHM, started chemotherapy for breast cancer in 2004, she expected many of its inconveniences and side effects - losing her energy, losing her appetite, even losing her hair. But nobody warned her about how hard it would be to pray. .....read more |
Recycling Food: Waste Not, Want Not
Submitted on: 4/18/2008Contact Person: Beth Kress, PBVM Garbage isn't something most Americans want to think about every day, but managing the nearly 230 million tons of waste that they generate each year has every day environmental and economic consequences......read more |
Presentation Srs. Choose Conversion to Embrace Earth
Submitted on: 4/18/2008Contact Person: Beth Kress, PBVM Presentation Sisters of Dubuque, Iowa, and their associate members, are changing -- one light bulb at a time. They believe that the experience of change is gradual but effective for any group or organization......read more |
Green Education Begins with Simple Actions
Submitted on: 4/18/2008Contact Person: Beth Kress, PBVM When Resurrection Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa, became the first parochial school to receive the Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency's (DMASWA )Green Vision Education Award in 2007, Sister Donna Demmer, PBVM, fifth grade teacher at Resurrection was there with her students and whole school community to stand proud. Their school community received the Green Vision flag to hang outside the school and a banner to display inside the building......read more |
Experiencing Life-Giving Water
Submitted on: 4/04/2008Contact Person: Pam Brookens During the past year the Dubuque Franciscan Sister Water Project (SWP) has not only funded the mission trip to Honduras, but also the rehabilitation and digging of wells, and providing simtanks for rainwater collection in Tanzania. In February a representative group of the Dubuque Franciscans traveled to Tanzania to see the fruits of the Sister Water Project and to meet with local persons to assess further water accessibility needs......read more |
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