February 2012

Last year we welcomed four new members onto the Giving Voice core team: Susan Francois, CSJP; Jeannie Humphries, OSU; Leslie Keener, CDP; and Sarah Kohles, OSF. In December, six of the core team members gathered for a weekend in St. Louis to articulate our hopes and dreams for Giving Voice and to facilitate the transition as Giving Voice moves into the future. In 2011 we also said good-bye to two members who have been part of our core team for many years: Maria Cimperman and Lisa Buscher, RSCJ.

Over the past 13 years Giving Voice has had 9 different mailing addresses! You will be happy to hear that we now have a permanent mailing address.

Giving Voice
3390 Windsor Ave
Dubuque, IA 52001

Over Martin Luther King weekend, 18 sisters from 15 different congregations gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery for the annualGiving Voicegathering of sisters in their 20s and 30s. Over the next few Updates we will be sharing reflections from some of the participants. Sarah Heger, a 30 year old Sister of St. Joseph from St. Louis, shares here some of her experience at the gathering:

Following a groundbreaking and successful first series of workshops held in 2011 as part of the Transformation of Religious Life in North America initiative, the Religious Formation Conference (RFC) invites you to participate in Spring 2012 in one of five workshops to be held across the US.