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APPRECIATING THE GIFT OF LIFE

What’s weighing on your mind today? A vacation, work conference, or maybe your child’s college applications? Or is it about how to provide food for yourself or your family, worries about home heating, or affording health care for the kids? The disparity of daily concerns strikes at the heart Church’s...

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GLENMARY CHALLENGE
Nathan Smith is often on podasts promoting Christian unity

THAT THEY MAY BE ONE

Christian unity is a real and important part of mission...

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50th Anniversary Gala/fundraiser for Frontier Housing Inc, a company started by Glenmary volunteers who came from New York area to parish in nearby Lewis County and settled in Morehead. Tom Carew, the principal, was one in the volunteer group from Fairfield Univ. in Connecticut. He became the first Farm Manager, and went on to Morehead, where Glenmary Father John Garvey helped him get started, getting some Glenmary money, recruiting local pastors for a board of directors, and eventually heading frontier in direction of Campaign for Human Development funding. Totals in 2024: In 1974, the Frontier Housing dream became a reality. Fifty years later, the impact is astounding and continues to grow: • 850+ Homes Constructed • 400+ Homes Repaired • 100+ Rental Housing Units • 2,100+ Households served by Construction Solutions, Affordable Loans, Credit Counseling, and More.

FRONTIER HOUSING CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN APPALACHIA

A celebration took place in April for the 50th anniversary...

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CALLED BY THE EUCHARIST

I stumbled into the Catholic Church by God’s abundant grace...

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Filming a staged Fresh Wagon distribution at St. Teresa of Kolkata in Maynardville, Tennessee, for the vocations video in May 2025. More photos available in Communications > Photos > 2025 > 250510 Filming weekend in Rutledge, Maynardville, Erwin

WHY BE A GLENMARY PRIEST?

Glenmary Communications Team has partnered with Minnesota-based Hundredfold Video to...

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GLENMARY HONORED AT CATHOLIC MEDIA AWARDS

Glenmary Home Missioners and the Glenmary Challenge received nine awards...

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CULTIVATE
September 2023 reunion, in Breathitt County, KY, of some Glenmary Kentucky (Lewis and Rowan Counties) volunteers of the 1970s. They helped construct a new home for a flood-victim family with Housing Development Alliance, Inc., a local nonprofit. L to R: John Leugers (former Glenmary Assoicate) Chuck Garvin, John Potterton (gray shirt, below. 2 men kneeling: red shirt foreman from housing alliance, green shirt huband of volunteer Cynthia Clarie (nto pictured)

A SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM

Since its founding in 1973, the Glenmary volunteer program has...

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Glenmary Farm

at Joppa Mountain
1943 Joppa Mountain Road
Rutledge, TN 37861
There are two housing facilities on our 10-acre site with enough space to accommodate groups of up to 25 people. Each house has a main living area, toilet, and shower. All living quarters have central heating and cooling.