Louise Locke featured on ‘Go Forth’ podcast
Louise Locke talks about her vocation journey and her work as a Maryknoll lay missioner in Bolivia.
CNS reports on McCarthy Award
Catholic News Service story on award recipients Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello
Coverage of 2021 Sending Ceremony
Articles highlight ‘largest lay missioner class since 2005.’
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.’
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.
Gabe Hurrish featured in USCMA’s Encounter newsletter
‘The Holy Spirit is a jolly joker,’ says Gabe.
CNS covers new Maryknoll Lay Missioners award
Catholic News Service on new Bishop McCarthy Award
Jhon Alex walks
A young Bolivian with severe disabilities benefits from targeted physical therapy.
Listening to the yearnings of our hearts
Julie Lawler shares her experience at the Asia Deaf Catholic Conference 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
‘Hearts on fire, eyes opened, …’
This World Mission Sunday, we invite you to ‘walk together with us on the path of peace.’
‘The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor’
If the Lord indeed hears the cry of the poor, we are called to listen as well.
Learning from an indigenous missionary
Hang Tran is inspired by the faith of the Indian family of a Missionaries of Charity Brother.
CBP One, Encuentro and ‘spiritual fundraising’
Coralis Salvador reflects on her border work and strives toward communion with God and with one another.
Interfaith sisters of reconciliation
A journey from the Altiplano of Peru to ESL and interfaith community-building in Delaware.
Soy Program continues to thrive
Entire Altman family and Ann and Suzy pitch in, helping the Soy Project succeed.
Live simply …
Joanne Miya shares lessons from students who put their own personal desires aside to assist others.
A different world
Mike Lattanzi reflects on a few of the ways life is different in Haiti.
Dressed for success
A HOPE Project student overcomes many obstacles in her pursuit of starting a tailoring business.
Joy on the border
Despite being displaced by a cartel’s threat of violence, Gilberto is a living testament to resilience and joy.
‘… until you can love yourself’
‘When I first got sober, I did not love myself much at all…. [I felt] I was not, in fact, worth loving.’
Simplify
Finding what is simply the right thing to do — and not getting ‘frittered away by detail’
In the spirit of St. Francis
Grant that my heart may beat stronger for love of you in the poor, abandoned and downtrodden …
Really living the Gospel
Dee Dungy advocates for women refugees in East Africa.
‘Nag-vocating’ for migrants in Chicago
For returned missioner Celine Woznica, “border volunteering” came to her own backyard.
The ‘simple bare necessities’ of life
From rural South Sudan, Gabe Hurrish reflects on one of Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ core values: simple living
Assisting migrants just south of the border
Debbie Northern helped explain the asylum process to migrants in Juárez and guide border immersion in El Paso.
Do the right thing
Helping someone who needs help is usually simple but not easy.
Serving children with disabilities in Tanzania
A video interview with Jaclyn Geyer about her work at St. Justin’s Centre for Children with Disabilities
Skirting the dances
During Festa Junina, Margarita Durán leads fun traditional dances in several favelas.
Prayer for a nonviolent heart
O God, help us to persevere in nonviolence and to abolish the causes of war from our own hearts and the face of the earth.
Tackling the human trafficking of migrants
Heidi Cerneka’s new ministry addresses a serious global problem across three continents
Bone marrow donor and Tanzania research
Returned missioner Sam Janson strives to live a life that is still influenced by the Maryknoll spirit.
Finding inspiration at Casa Papa Francisco
Brenda Seymour reflects on her two and a half weeks of volunteering at the border in El Paso.
Louise Locke featured on ‘Go Forth’ podcast
Louise Locke talks about her vocation journey and her work as a Maryknoll lay missioner in Bolivia.
Mission trip do’s and don’ts
No more mission trips by harmful, arrogant and poorly trained groups. We need humble models of mission today.
The struggle is one
At Nairobi conference, Maryknoll lay missioners discuss global human rights and criminal justice reform.
Anne McSweeney, ¡presente!
Reflections on Anne McSweeney from fellow missioner and housemate Patty Butler, SNDdeN
Sowing peace, hope and partnership
Together, let us be multipliers for nonviolence and peace.
Running backwards
Megan Hamilton reflects on her first year and a half of doing addiction recovery work in Mombasa, Kenya.
Rest in peace, Bosse
The Maryknoll Lay Missioners community mourns the passing of Bosse, one of the earliest and longest-serving Maryknoll lay missioners.
Accessing clubfoot treatment in Tanzania
Jaclyn Geyer accompanies four children to their first treatments for clubfoot. Can you help fund the surgery for two of them?
Growing pains and joys
Steve Veryser on learning from the miracle of growing something — and the effort and grace it takes.
‘Decenter and transcend’
Elvira Ramirez reflects on Pope Francis’ call to ‘open doors and windows and move out beyond.’
My new mission at a parish in Riwoto
After two and a half years in Kuron Peace Village, Gabe Hurrish is now working in parish ministry in South Sudan.
Trash talk in El Salvador
Liz Cunningham talks trash — and, along with it, about poverty, community and hope.
More change at the border
Debbie Northern reports the latest from El Paso, as Title 42 finally ends.
New holistic workshops address new needs
Flávio Rocha and Kathy Bond continue to find creative ways to address the holistic health needs of their Brazilian community.
‘One heart’ in welcoming migrants
Coralis Salvador’s summer 2023 updates from the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas
Humbled by hospitality in South Sudan
Among the world’s poorest of the poor, Gabe Hurrish finds an incredible spirit of generosity and humility.
‘The meek shall inherit the earth’
Hang Tran reflects on a resident and a staff member of Home of Hope who both inspire her in very different ways.
‘Worth more than many sparrows’
Debbie Northern says too often migrants are not being treated as our brothers and sisters. Christians need to reach out with compassion.
Getting humbled, so that the real work can begin
Getting out of one’s armchair and stepping into the ring is one of the fastest and surest ways to be humbled, Anna Johnson finds.
Karma or blessing
Francis Wayne shares the travails of traveling to and from his prison ministry site in Mombasa, Kenya.
Humble servants
Challenged by the call to humility, Joanne Miya finds some role models among Uzima Centre’s clients.
Blessed by inconvenience
Life in mission takes adjustments and frustrations, Josh Wetmore finds. But the payoff is in the encounters with wonderful people.
‘Welcoming the stranger’
Help Maryknoll Lay Missioners care for refugees and others through our service.
Answering the call to protect refugees
On this World Refugee Day, Heidi Cerneka challenges us to welcome refugees as our brothers and sisters.
