Three missioners featured in St. Louis Review
Vicki Simon, Becca Muder, and Heidi Cerneka, three Maryknoll lay missioners who call St. Louis...
Heidi Cerneka in NCR and Jesuits magazine
Publications feature women’s work at the border.
Catholic News Service story features Melissa Altman
CNS highlights Maryknoll lay missioner’s work in El Salvador and the legacy of the four martyred U.S. church women
Brazilian TV features Kathy Bond’s online workshop
Lay missioner’s teaching of shantala baby massage is highlighted by Com Você program.
Spring 2020 issue of Voices of Compassion
Cover story features lay missioners combating climate change
Heidi Cerneka quoted in Buzzfeed
On the perils for older detainees in ICE custody.
Returned lay missioner reflects on COVID-19 isolation in Peru
With Peruvian borders closed because of the pandemic, ‘an infinite abyss’ has opened
2019 Sending coverage in diocesan publications
Syracuse, Worcester and Hartford dioceses report on new missioners’ Sending.
Texas public radio features Heidi Cerneka on ‘Withholding of Removal’
‘If asylum is the gold standard, withholding of removal is the aluminum standard.’
Watch the 2019 Joint Mission Sending Ceremony
Maryknoll Lay Missioners and Maryknoll Sisters jointly celebrate and officially send forth five new missioners.
Four new missioners sign the Maryknoll Lay Missioners covenant
Video of Covenant Mass
Five new Maryknoll missioners to be sent forth
Dec. 14 Sending Ceremony to launch four Maryknoll lay missioners and one Maryknoll sister on their overseas missions.
Meet the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Class of 2019
7-minute video introducing four new lay missioners who will be going into mission in Cambodia, Haiti and Kenya.
Maryknoll Symposium on Dorothy Day now available for watching
Robert Ellsberg, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan, Patrick Jordan and Kate Hennessy speak at Dorothy Day gathering at Maryknoll
Border ministry, Cambodia immersion, volleyball values and more
The Fall/Winter 2019 issue of Voices of Compassion magazine features compelling lay missioner stories
Maryknoll advocacy office calls withdrawal from climate agreement ‘unconscionable’
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns sharply criticizes the U.S. government’s Nov. 4 move to formally withdraw from the Paris agreement
The Belleville Messenger on Heidi Cerneka
Lay missioner ‘in the middle of one of the most contentious issues’
Catholic Spirit features Maria Montello’s ministry in Cambodia
“Maryknoll missionary takes faith, desire to serve to Cambodia.”
Karen Bortvedt on ‘Among the People’ podcast
Karen Bortvedt talks about her lay mission service in Cambodia and her current work for Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
Lay missioner nurse shares her story
Kathy Flatoff tells Catholic Life magazine how 33 years after first applying to Maryknoll, she became a lay missioner in Kenya.
A new roof for Liberato
… and a renewed appreciation for a global community that makes a difference in a small Andean village in Bolivia.
Met a messenger lately?
Accompanying Cambodians through key life events taught Hang Tran the importance of steadfastness in adversity.
Musoma mission updates
Business plans, graduations and hopeful first steps at St. Justin’s, the Musoma diocese and the IHSA sisters
‘Back to where I started’
17 years after first teaching math at a Tanzanian high school, Steve Veryser returns to help educate deaf students there.
Accompaniment in good times and bad
For Larry Parr, accompaniment is one of the most important parts of his ministry in El Salvador.
In-person border immersion program starts up again
Coralis Salvador’s ministry update: Encuentro Project is back up and running.
Encounters while volunteering at the border
A returned missioner reflects on volunteering at the El Paso – Ciudad de Juárez border
The miracle of accompaniment
Tanzanian center accompanies those living with HIV/AIDS, working to lighten their burden and allowing them to ‘live positively.’
Lessons in servant leadership
Living our faith as Christians is not about power but about service to others (scripture reflection for Sept. 19, 2021).
September 2021 update from South Sudan
Violence, hunger and crime are on the rise 10 years after South Sudan’s independence
New beginnings at the border
Debbie Northern is starting her new ministries in border immersion and migrant services in El Paso.
Starting a delayed new school year in Kenya
HOPE Project in Mombasa begins education support for a new group of orphans and other vulnerable children.
Skills workshops for income generation continue
Soy project in El Salvador trains women in new entrepreneurial skills for the informal market.
Maryknoll lay mission experience inspires ongoing parish twinning
The advice ‘Be Maryknoll wherever God places you again’ bears much fruit with returned missioners
Ministry highlights from João Pessoa
From Shantala baby massage to retreats and trauma therapy, Kathy Bond and Flávio Rocha are returning to in-person work
20 years after 9/11
A prayer service in remembrance of September 11, 2001 — We remember, we hope, we pray for peace and healing
Smiles and tears in São Paulo’s favelas
Margarita Durán follows her vocation to teach, uplift and accompany communities in Brazil’s favelas.
Caring for our ‘home for all’
Peg Vámosy shares ‘Season of Creation’ lessons from her parish environmental and agricultural ministry in El Salvador
Refugee and asylum news highlight border needs
Maryknoll Lay Missioners expands migrant ministries at border; asks for support of its Border-El Salvador Fund.
Zumba with Margarita
Margarita Durán has started teaching Zumba at the Migrant Integration Center in São Paulo.
Letting go of evils within
We must allow the absolute love of God to transcend our own darkness (scripture reflection for Aug. 29, 2021).
‘Entertaining angels unawares’
Twin Cities area’s returned Maryknoll lay missioners hold prayer vigil with and for migrants and refugees
‘I live for days like today’
Visiting again with friends at Hogar San José brings special joy after an 18-month-long pandemic separation.
Baby sheep for Juan Carlos’ family
New sheep help family of young man with disabilities high up in the Andes.
Maryknoll advocacy provides new opportunity to serve
Dan Moriarty has adapted well to his new life and MOGC work for justice in Washington DC.
Rest in peace, Father Jack
Tributes from Maryknoll Lay Missioners mourning the death of one of our co-founders, Father Jack Sullivan, MM
Chocolate and piñatas
Income-generating workshops help Salvadoran women during pandemic.
‘Seeing the world through God’s eyes’
Learning from the Franciscan tradition to see — and act — differently (August 2021 ‘Ted’s Talk’)
Called to be shepherds
Coralis Salvador reflects on the Gospel call to follow the Shepherd and help shepherd others (16th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The crisis in Haiti … and what would Jesus do
God invites us to follow, to love, to enter into solidarity with Haiti (July 2021 ‘Ted’s Talk’).
Thoughts on 10 years of South Sudan’s independence
Most South Sudanese have given up hope in their leaders; they trust in God, persevere and do what they can to improve their lives.
Haiti in turmoil again
Abby Belt says not to lose hope in the wake of the July 7 assassination of Haiti’s president, as the country is under a ‘state of siege.’
On losing my marbles and planting seeds
After nine years of ministry in El Salvador, Rick Dixon bids farewell as he returns to California.
Restarting our Dean Brackley tutoring program
As restrictions start to lift, challenges remain for the education of young people in marginalized communities of El Salvador.
Workshops for new income generation
Ann Greig’s Soy Project organized skills workshops for women during COVID crisis.
When Thom is recycling
Observing Thom, a young Cambodian with developmental disabilities, in action reminds Hang Tran to pick up a lot of other kinds of ‘debris.’
Listening to the prophets among us
In this scripture reflection for July 4, 2021, Joanne Miya says we need to pay attention to the wisdom of unlikely prophets.
Stories of hope
Amidst pandemic challenges, a Tanzanian center for persons living with HIV manages to inspire success stories.
Learning sign language opens new worlds in Cambodia’s Deaf community
Sambath’s story — and how donors have helped 32 deaf people thrive this year
Reaping ‘broken’ harvests
The Veryser family’s summer newsletter reports on harvesting their first rice and new efforts bearing other good fruit.
‘Be cured of your affliction’
Sami Scott reflects on God’s desire to heal us and give us life, which we help enact through service of one another.
Business consulting, Bahati, new wheelchairs and ‘market day’
In their Summer 2021 newsletter, Kevin and Marilyn McDonough provide their latest ministry updates.
Superheroes and pioneers of peace
In her Summer 2021 newsletter, Coralis Salvador is inspired by the resilience of children and the persistence of a peacebuilder.
A letter from Cochabamba
Summer 2021 newsletter with John’s updates on COVID situation and his ministry with Missionaries of Charity
Volunteering as a legal aide at the border
Leticia Macias talks about her volunteer work as a legal aide assisting immigrants at the border in El Paso.
Pentecost reflection from Las Delicias
Larry Parr and William Méndez reflect on the meaning of Pentecost for young people in rural El Salvador.
Serving São Paulo’s street people during the pandemic
São Paulo network serves an average of 1,000 lunches per day to people experiencing homelessness.
How the Deaf Development Programme in Cambodia builds bridges
A video describing how this Maryknoll program builds bridges between the deaf world and the hearing world.
Goal setting
As she prepares to finish her mission work in Haiti, Abby Belt helps set some new goals (of soccer) at her school.
Light for Mwanahamisi’s mud hut
Supporting the education of HOPE Project’s children also means supporting their families in their everyday struggles.
