The University of Notre Dame students who traveled to the Farm in March as part of Notre Dame's Appalachian Seminar created a Web site describing their experiences. Check it out!

Many spring volunteers enjoyed performances by Father Bruce Brylinski, puppeteer extraordinaire. His home mission ministry employs all forms of art to share the good news of Jesus in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky.

The Farm has been short a manager since Dave Turner completed his service in December 2005. Joe Grosek has been filling in, but hopes to have a third manager in place soon. See his most recent Vanceburg View for news about his search for new manager and the reunion of Farm managers this summer.

Most of the late winter and early spring volunteer groups were from schools that have visited before, but it was great to have first-timers from Fairfield University (Fairfield, Conn.), Creighton University (Omaha, Neb.) and Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa).

This new book from Paulist Press is based on research and oral interviews conducted by the Glenmary Research Center about Holy Family Church in Natchez, the first African-American parish in Mississippi, and one of the earliest in the country. Authored by Danny Duncan Collum, this book highlights the prophetic voices of this parish which played a key role in the civil rights movement and was, and remains, a beacon of hope.

Seven men, from 23-47 and from four countries, are winding up their prenovitiate experience at the Glenmary House of Studies in Hartford, Ky. Under the direction of Father Vic Subb, this international community has spent the past eight months studying, discerning and getting a taste of home mission ministry. Meet all of Glenmary's current students.

The unique stations in Holy Redeemer Church in Vanceburg continue to inspire viewers to make the connection between Jesus' passion and their own lives.