GLENMARY FARM E-NEWSLETTER / Summer 2005

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NEW CATHOLIC, NEW FARM MANAGER WANTS TO DISPEL APPALACHIAN STEREOTYPES

Jay Damron arrived in June to replace Val McDaniel as a Farm manager. This self-described “mountain boy” from Kentucky’s Pike County is a recent convert to Catholicism. For more about his journey to the Catholic Church and to the Glenmary Farm:

http://www.glenmary.org/farm/news_items/damron.htm

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MIKE DORN PREPARING FOR MISSIONARY PRIESTHOOD

Mike Dorn, nephew of Glenmary Father Jerry Dorn and a Farm manager for the past 10 months, left Vanceburg in August to pursue priesthood as a Maryknoll foreign missionary. He is currently enrolled at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

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WHAT DOES A PIONEER LOOK LIKE?

Just like Brother Vince Wilmes, the first Glenmary brother, who died August 15 at 89! That’s what Father Steve Pawelk says in his tribute to this man who spent the last 10 years of his active ministry in Olive Hill, not far from the Farm, working with the poorest of the poor.

http://www.glenmary.org/vocations/newsletters/0508.htm

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YOUTH GROUPS FROM ‘TWINNED’ PARISHES MEET AT THE FARM

Glenmary’s mission in Eupora, Miss., is “twinned” with Blessed Sacrament Parish in Midland, Mich. Youth groups from both parishes met at the Farm in June to get to know each other and to live out their baptismal call to mission. To read more:

http://www.glenmary.org/challenge/Autumn05/no_problem.htm

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WOMEN IN SERVICE TO APPALACHIA MAKE ANNUAL TRIP TO VANCEBURG

WSA made its annual trip to the Farm in late July. The group of 22 women from 11 states range in age from their 20s to their 60s. Their mission, according to their Web site at www.womeninservice.org, is to “minister by service, word and prayer, striving to bring spiritual development and social justice to the Appalachian region of Kentucky.” For a story about them and an earlier visit to the Farm

http://www.glenmary.org/challenge/Autumn00/women/women.htm

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FARM MANAGER REUNION BEING PLANNED FOR 2006

Volunteer director Joe Grosek has started to plan a Farm manager reunion for summer 2006. Watch upcoming issues of this e-newsletter for more about plans and dates.

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COAST TO COAST! SUMMER GROUPS HAIL FROM 14 STATES & D.C.

CALIFORNIA:  Archbishop Mitty High School (San Jose)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: St. John’s College High School (Washington)

ILLINOIS: St. Ignatius College Prep (Chicago), St. Anne’s Youth Ministry (Barrington)
IOWA: Immaculate Conception Youth (Cherokee)

INDIANA: St. Lawrence Church (Indianapolis)

KENTUCKY: Church of the Epiphany Youth Group (Louisville), Jesus Our Savior Youth Group (Morehead)

LOUISIANA: Catholic High School (Baton Rouge)

MICHIGAN: Sacred Heart Youth Group (Hudson), Blessed Sacrament Parish (Midland)

MISSISSIPPI: Youth from St. John Neumann Church (Eupora)

MISSOURI: DeSmet Jesuit High School (St Louis)

NEW JERSEY: St. Peter’s Prep (Jersey City)

NEW YORK: St. John the  Baptist Church (Lockport)

OHIO: Archbishop Moeller High School (Cincinnati)

PENNSYLVANIA: Cardinal Dougherty High School (Philadelphia), Our Lady of Peace Senior High Youth Group (Erie), Scranton Preparatory School (Scranton)

WISCONSIN: Regis High School (Eau Claire).

For pictures of these groups: http://www.glenmary.org/farm/farm_album/currrent.htm

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NEW URL FOR FARM HOMEPAGE. UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARK!

The Farm section of the Glenmary Web site continues to feature news about the Farm and Farm-related people and events. But the URL changed last spring. This is the new address:

http://www.glenmary.org/farm.

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