Right now Farm volunteers are helping set up toys and other gifts for this year's Project Merry Christmas. This event invites families in Lewis County to "shop" for Christmas gifts for their children.

A gift today will help Holy Redeemer and the Glenmary Farm continue to serve the people of Lewis County, and it will help Glenmary keep its mission doors open in all the other impoverished rural counties where it serves. Click here to make a gift now.

Laura Zant from Kalamazoo, Mich., has joined Dave Turner and Jay Damron as a Farm manager. Read more about Laura and the many gifts she brings to the Farm.

Each of us is waiting and hoping for something from our God. Father Steve Pawelk shares the hopes of three mission communities where he is spending this Advent. For his reflection.

Former Farm director Brother Virgil Seifker is recovering from several health problems. He was diagnosed in August with atrial fibrillation of the heart complicated by a high heart rate, a blood clot in the heart and pneumonia. Now, after hospitalization and medication, he is on the mend. You can send a card to him at Glenmary Home Missioners, PO Box 465618, Cincinnati, OH 45246. Please keep him in your prayers! Until August, Brother Virgil was working to establish a Catholic presence in Bertie County, N.C., Glenmary's newest mission territory.

Glenmary now has men in every stage of formation for the first time in 15 years. Meet the men, ages 23 through 47, who have begun formation in the pre-novitiate program in Hartford, Ky.

A reunion for Farm managers is being planned for Aug. 11-13, 2006. For more information, or to reserve a bed, contact Joe Grosek: 606-796-3421, jgrosek@glenmary.org, or Glenmary Volunteer Office, P.O. Box 7, Vanceburg, KY 41179. First dibs gets the top bunk!

Lots of old friends returned to the Farm this fall, and veteran groups (like Bishop Watterson and St. Catherines's) continued their tradition of returning together. For pictures of groups thru Nov. 18.

As volunteer director Joe Grosek travels (to volunteer fairs and the annual School of the Americas protest), he meets former Farm volunteers who are living out the spirit of the Glenmary Farm. For Joe's Christmas reflection.