Volume I 2012

We are lay, religious and ordained missioners working together as equals in mission. MKLM Mission Statement Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Catholic organization inspired by the mission of Jesus to live and work in poor communities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, responding to basic needs and helping to create a more just and compassionate world.

Contact Us • To learn more about becoming a Maryknoll Lay Missioner, visit: www.mklm.org/4change • To support our work, visit: We congratulate our www.maryknolllaymissioners.org Sisters in Mission on their 100th anniversary and pray they be granted many more years of making God’s love Find Us on visible throughout Facebook. the world.

Maryknoll Lay Maryknoll Lay Missioners Missioners meets is a proud member all 20 charity of the National standards of the Catholic Development Better Business Conference. Bureau. Dear Friends, Prayerful best wishes to all of you from all of us here at Maryknoll Lay Missioners.

s I reflect on all that has A happened since I last wrote to you, I cannot help but be struck by how the Spirit continues to work in and through Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Every day we see glimmers of hope where there was once only despair – even if it is something as simple as seeing to it that a child has a decent shirt and pair of shoes to wear to school. Don’t get me wrong, there is still much to do but in this season of renewed hope I can’t help but believe Sam Stanton, Executive Director, receiving mission award for MKLM that the Spirit of our Risen Lord is working with and through us to serve those God has entrusted to us. Missioners, like many other Like St. Paul, we believe, “Because charitable organizations, works we have this ministry through hard (and with your generous help) God’s mercy, we do not give in to to fulfill those needs. What makes discouragement.” (2 Corinthians 4:1) us different, however, is our faith- based foundation built on our Eight Our missioners work in 7 Core Values. One of those Values different countries but the needs is our commitment to working are all very similar—clean water, within Ecclesial Teams. By that nutritious food, suitable clothing we mean that we, Maryknoll Lay and medicine. Maryknoll Lay Missioners, work together as equals

Cover Photo: Our 8 Core Values are beautifully represented in an original piece of art by former MKLM Missioner Eileen Charleton, Venezuela, Tanzania and US, Class of 1988. VOICES of Compassion | 3 with religious and ordained people partners since 1976. Our dream is in mission. We take seriously the that through our example and with words of Blessed John Paul II that, God’s help all people will be able “It is not possible to live and grow to use their creativity in ways that in the faith without the support of will strengthen them and empower a group, a Christian Community. It them to build a more participative is here that you will learn to build and inclusive society and Church. a better world.” (L’Osservatore And last, but not least, we are part Romano, 7/1/85) of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. Located in Washington Our missioners are working hard DC, we work there as a part of and in collaboration with other the ecclesial team to educate and Catholic laity, priests and religious advocate on public policy issues that to serve and support the poor and affect the people we serve around spread the good news of Jesus the world. every day. In Kenya we work with and celebrate the local Church as So as you read through this we accompany the people in their edition of Voices of Compassion struggle to realize human dignity. please know that we here at In Tanzania we create communal Maryknoll Lay Missioners truly life with our African family, the believe that the Risen Christ calls Maryknoll Society and Congregation everyone to labor in His vineyard and our Maryknoll Lay Missioners and that the Holy Spirit empowers – sustained by prayer and mutual all with various gifts and ministries accountability. In Cambodia we are for the building up of the body part of the Cambodia Mission Team of Christ. which includes all Maryknoll entities as well as others. The Cambodia God bless you. Mission Team is first and foremost a community guided by values based on human and civil rights and our Catholic tradition and heritage. In Latin America we have Sam Stanton worked alongside our Maryknoll Executive Director

4 | VOICES of Compassion Ecclesial Teams: The future of the Catholic Mission… and the future is now.

Peg Vamosy working in Cambodia

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit…” John 15:5 (NIV)

VOICES of Compassion | 5 ave you ever seen a vine? They the Maryknoll family. Together, Hcan grow in the most unusual, along with the Maryknoll Fathers seemingly impossible, situations. and Brothers and the Maryknoll Vines grow up the sides and Sisters, we form one of the largest through the windows of abandoned foreign mission movements in the buildings. They coil around tree world. We are blessed by a century trunks, clinging to them in a display of experience and by the continued of strength, climbing higher, and dedication of the men and women higher, and higher… who bring their commitment and passion to the Maryknoll movement “Then I heard the voice of – be it as a priest, as a Brother, a the Lord saying, “Whom shall Sister or a lay missioner. I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. There is, however, a major shift Send me!” Isaiah 6:8 (NIV) occurring in the Catholic Church. It began some time ago, but its pace has certainly accelerated, and will Jesus tells us in John’s Gospel that continue to do so in the coming He is the vine, we are merely the years. That shift is the shift in the branches. He has done the most responsibility for, and leadership of, difficult part – the part that no other the Church and its many wonderful could have. Through Jesus’ work on ministries. Earth, the healings, the miracles and the fasting; and through His passion There is a shortage of young men death and Resurrection, Jesus paved and women joining the seminary the way for us. As the branches or the convent. We can neither clinging to His love, it is our job to deny, nor ignore that. However, a attract others to the vine – something diminishment in the number of we all do in different ways. ordained and religious does not mean our mission rings any less true, Maryknoll Lay Missioners is nor does it mean that the need is but one part – one branch – of any less great. It simply means we

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need to adapt to the reality we face. listening to something deep within Though the number of men and themselves. They follow their faith, women choosing religious life may as Isaiah did, answering God’s call be declining, we are blessed that so and following His guiding hand – many hardworking and faithful lay wherever it may lead. Here are some people contribute to our mission, of the places where God’s hand has and to the Church as a whole. guided our lay missioners – and the work they are doing with others: When someone expresses a desire to be a lay missioner, they are

VOICES of Compassion | 7 Maryknoll Mission Community of El Salvador

Africa iz Mach first heard ecclesial teams. We work for, with Lthe call to become and through the local church which a missioner in 1976. is very important to us,” she says. Today, thirty-six years later, she is still answering just as Through her descriptions of life in Isaiah did. “Here am I. Send me!” Liz Tanzania, one thing is evident. The has spent time in a host of different missioners – whether lay, religious mission sites and ministries, and her or ordained – form something very experience is invaluable to the local special: community. community where she serves. Liz told us about volunteers “In Tanzania, where I am now, working with the Sisters in HIV/ we are very involved in building AIDS work, and sharing Pastoral 8 | VOICES of Compassion Theological Reflection (PTR) with who joined MKLM in 2007 and both the Sisters and the Fathers and today is working to better the lives Brothers. Holidays and special events in Las Delicias, a very poor, rural are celebrated together, and perhaps community in El Salvador. most importantly, a natural support system develops. After all, even though our missioners are living their We work for, with and through faith in a very meaningful way, they the local Church which is very are still far from home. important to us.

One message that Liz relayed seemed particularly poignant, and Larry, too, is blessed with the is an example of how blessed we encouragement and the experience are to have so many dedicated lay of a strong ecclesial team in El missioners. “We have continued some Salvador, where the Maryknoll Lay projects begun by the Congregation Missioners, the Fathers and Brothers after the Sisters have retired and and the Sisters form a group called returned home,” she says. Thank the Maryknoll Mission Community God for their presence and their of El Salvador (MMC). They meet passion for continuing these monthly for prayer, fellowship and ministries. Without them, what presentations on issues that affect would happen to all the good work their ministries – issues like violence, that has already begun? migration and the environment. The MMC members also visit Latin America each others ministries, and provide ne of the blessings support and guidance for each other. Oof the Maryknoll Lay Missioners is the That support and guidance came vibrancy and energy in handy when a tropical depression our younger missioners bring to our struck El Salvador. With the entire organization. People like Larry Parr, country in a state of emergency due

VOICES of Compassion | 9 to the heavy floods, the Maryknoll of people like Larry Parr and the rest Family – Lay Missioners, Sisters, of our missioners, we will be there as Priests and Brothers alike – everyone long as we are needed. pitched in during that difficult time. Asia We have been formed here are not just from common Tcurrently 8 experience but by our faith MKLM missioners in and the belief we can make Cambodia – all living a difference. in the city of Phnom Penh. Their proximity to each other allows for them to share their work with Larry serves more than 600 each other – the successes as well families in his ministries. He works as the struggles. Together with the with FUDECSA, a foundation that Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and aims to enhance the community the Maryknoll Sisters, the Maryknoll through education and development. Lay Missioners comprise the Larry helps the youth in Las Delicias Cambodia Mission Team (CMT). with their leadership, team building and social skills. In addition to his The CMT meets at least once a work with FUDECSA, Larry is also week – business is discussed, but involved with a new project called the primary focus of the meeting is Playing for Peace – a community- fellowship, Mass, and to share a meal wide initiative geared to gang together. The community has been prevention. More than 100 boys and formed not just from the common girls age 7 to 17 participate – they experiences of its members, but by study, work, play and pray together. the very thing that guided them to Phnom Penh in the first place – their Maryknoll Lay Missioners serve faith, and their belief that they could throughout Latin America – not just make a difference. in El Salvador, but in Bolivia and Brazil as well. With the dedication

10 | VOICES of Compassion His work is particularly challenging because of the circumstances he faces within the country – a form of sign language wasn’t developed there until 1996. There were also no organizations designed to assist the deaf until the late 1990’s. Fr. Charlie is not just teaching sign language, he is helping to develop the language that will give voice to those who would otherwise be mute.

Susan Sporl also works with the deaf in Phnom Penh, serving around 40 deaf clients and their families as a Social Services Advisor. Susan’s work has helped to organize the services that are now available for the deaf, and her experience in social Our Lady of Maryknoll work and counseling has proven invaluable during her years in Cambodia. Fr. Charlie Dittmeier has been with MKLM as a missioner for 25 Susan came to MKLM from years. While technically not a “lay Seattle, Fr. Charlie from Kentucky. missioner,” (he is a diocesan priest Each was in a very different place in from Kentucky), Fr. Charlie was in their lives when they committed to Hong Kong from 1987-2000, and becoming a missioner. But there was since then has been working with something that drew them to leave the deaf in Cambodia. their lives in the U.S. and to cast their nets out into deeper waters.

VOICES of Compassion | 11 Washington D.C. is happening in the field, and so we or some, following can better inform those working Ftheir faith means in Washington. This dynamic of traveling to far-off our work illustrates the importance places – like Susan and Fr. Charlie, of the collaboration that exists in or Larry, or Liz. And for others, their Maryknoll. Our Lay Missioners, the talents keep them closer to home. Fathers and Brothers, and the Sisters are working together in the field – Dave Kane works at the Maryknoll and they are bringing their experience Office for Global Concerns in back to Washington to inform others Washington, DC – an ecclesial team about the realities they experience. with members from each branch of The work being done by the Office Maryknoll – the Fathers and Brothers, for Global Concerns is incredibly the Sisters and the Lay Missioners. As important to the Maryknoll mission, Dave says, collaboration is important – because they work for the systemic and it is happening all the time. change that is so often necessary to remedy the situations our missioners “As far as how we work [together], and those they serve face. everything we do is decided in meetings with representatives from each entity. For more than 100 years the Right now, Kathy McNeely, former Maryknoll mission has been alive in MKLM lay missioner, is at the UN the world, serving the poorest of the working with Ann Braudis, a Maryknoll poor. Despite the changes in society, in Sister, in hosting a presentation on women government, in world affairs – through and agriculture at the UN….recently, times of war, and in times of peace, we invited a Maryknoll Sister and a we continue to experience life together Peruvian woman to speak at the UN with those we serve. Those experiences about a local mine poisoning their river. shared by each branch of the Maryknoll I also took them around DC to meetings family, and the faith that inspires them, with legislators and State Dept.” are what bind us together to the vine of Christ’s undying love. And the vine is As a mission organization we ever present, regardless of the changes have a unique perspective on what the branches may endure. 12 | VOICES of Compassion Ecclesial Teams and the Maryknoll Affiliates by Fred Goddard, Executive Coordinator

Adel O’Regan, Richard Dixon, Gloria Galindo with hen thinking of the idea of Joe Regotti, Mission Services WEcclesial Teams, I would Director say that the Maryknoll Affiliates is an Ecclesial Movement. From the individuals providing service commitment where they live, to Maryknoll Affiliate Chapters Maryknoll Affiliates have done so and our regional and international along side Maryknoll Missioners conferences, the Maryknoll Affiliates from all the entities. Maryknoll desire and promote connections with Affiliates like Ginger Yorio and Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Fathers David and Paula Schaffner have and Brothers and Sisters. taught in schools in Namibia at the request of Maryknoll Brothers Whenever a Maryknoll Affiliate Mark Gruenke and Loren Beaudry. looks to work with Maryknoll, Agnes Walsh has taught English in whether that be short-term service Cambodia for many years through in another country or a long-term her connections with Sister Louise

VOICES of Compassion | 13 Aherns. Maryknoll Affiliates in Royer, in Albany, and former Guatemala, Peru, Philippines and Maryknoll Associate Priests Fathers Tanzania work alongside Maryknoll Bill Stanfield and Eugene Pocernich Lay Missioners, Sisters, Priests in the Greater Milwaukee Chapter. and Brothers as part of their daily Sisters from other congregations also ministries. connect with us, like Sister of Mercy Kathleen Waugh RSM, who is active Maryknoll Affiliates desire in the Philadelphia Chapter. and promote connections with Maryknoll Lay Perhaps in no other space does Missioners, Fathers and the ecclesial nature of the Maryknoll Brothers and Sisters. Affiliates manifest itself better than in our regional and international conferences. We are always proud Many Maryknoll Affiliate that these conferences, whether Chapters welcome the participation they be for a day or a weekend, of Maryknoll Sisters, Lay Missioners enjoy participation from all the and Society members. The New York entities, not only as speakers and City Subway Chapter, for example, resource persons, but attending is blessed by the presence of Sisters these conferences just like any other Gracie Krieger and Marilyn Graham Maryknoll Affiliate. and Maryknoll Lay Missioner Alicia Butkiewicz. The Maryknoll Mission Finally, it is important to note Team in El Salvador, made up of that the example of an ecclesial team members of the Congregation, Lay is modeled by the leadership of the Missioners and Society, began and Maryknoll Affiliates, the Maryknoll participate in the Maryknoll Affiliate Affiliate Board. We are both proud Chapter there. and blessed to have Maryknoll Lay Missioner Margo Cambier, The idea of “Ecclesial Teams” Maryknoll Father Paul Masson MM is not limited to Maryknoll and Maryknoll Sister Ann Hayden connections at the Chapter MM as part of the Maryknoll level. Diocesan priests who have Affiliate Board, exemplifying the connections with Maryknoll servant-leadership model that the participate in Chapters, like Tom board strives to achieve.

14 | VOICES of Compassion MKLM Benefactor Spotlight

Mike and Judy Noonan with Maryknoll Lay Missioner Sirikit Noronha ike Noonan, and his wife MJudy, have been good friends to Maryknoll for more than 40 years. Mike became a member of our Their relationship with us began in board in 2006, and he serves as an example of how our lay partners 1969 at Christ Church Newman work in conjunction with our Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where missioners and our religious brothers Father Bill Vos (current Chair of the and sisters. In fact, the bond between the lay members of the Board of Directors of Maryknoll Lay Board, and the Maryknoll Fathers, Missioners) was pastor. It was Fr. Bill Brothers and Sisters, is something who recruited Mike to serve on Mike sees as being very special. the Board. “When you get down to it, this organization (MKLM) is training lay

VOICES of Compassion | 15 people who want to do mission work of one of the students, a girl who was under the guidance and philosophies severely handicapped, the mother, the of Maryknoll,” Mike says. “They don’t grandmother, the great-grandmother just throw money at a problem, they – they were all present, telling us how become involved in the communities, difficult it was to take care of her. and with the people they’re serving. Then the grandmother asked, ‘What’s And the connection between the Lay going to become of her?’ We couldn’t Missioners, the Society [of Fathers answer it, but it’s lingered with me and Brothers] and the Congregation because it shows what a desperate [of Sisters] continues. Once our situation people are in. In the US, an missioners are trained they might end answer, a solution, would be available.” up in Latin America, or East Africa, or the Far East… but they usually Our missioners are a part of end up in an area where there are the foremost Catholic mission— already Maryknollers doing missionary sending group in the US. work, and they become a part of those They bring the love of Christ communities.” to the world.

In the Spring of 2010, Mike saw Mike recalls another mission he firsthand the good work our lay visited, this one in Kitale, Kenya – a missioners are doing when he visited school for former street kids who Tanzania and Kenya. On that trip need to catch up to their peers in he was able to visit several sites, terms of education. “Russ, the lay and was fortunate enough to see a missioner who runs the school, he’s number of missioners in their work. wonderful. These kids are migrating Unfortunately, what he saw during into Kitale, mostly from the north, that trip was not always easy to towards Sudan, and they are mostly witness, and many of the memories beggars. The school gets the kids off the have stayed with him. street, houses them in dormitories, and teaches them how to learn. The kids “One of our missioners had built a aren’t prepared for school, they haven’t school for handicapped and challenged been in school – so they get the kids youth,” he remembers. “See, it was into the format of education.” her attempt to get these kids educated. They had no education, they had no That trip had a big impact on options. So when we visited the home Mike, and it helped solidify all

16 | VOICES of Compassion that he had heard about in his part of the foremost Catholic mission- relationship with Maryknoll Lay sending group in the United States, Missioners. But in the end, the and they have an extreme dedication reason he cares so deeply about to bringing the Word of Christ and the MKLM, and about the work we do, Love of Christ to the world – especially comes down to one thing – faith. the poorest of the poor.”

“There are a lot of great missionary Mike and the rest of our board organizations that send people for 6 members are an important part months, a year, maybe 2 years. But of the Maryknoll Lay Missioner being a Maryknoll Lay Missioner is not community. Without them, without just a temporary volunteer effort. We their belief in us, we would be have missioners who have been at their unable to bring Christ’s Love to the sites for more than 30 years. For many poorest of the poor. For them, it’s a lifelong commitment – getting into and for all of you who support us with the culture of the people they’re serving, your prayers, your encouragement and becoming a part of their way of life and your donations, we are and their culture. Our missioners are a very grateful.

Did You Know? The three branches of Maryknoll n Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers, n Maryknoll Sisters, n and us, Maryknoll Lay Missioners – are each separately funded and operated.

Although we often join together to serve in mission, each entity depends on its donors for support.

Maryknoll Lay Missioners serves the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

To learn more about us, and how your support creates lasting improvements worldwide, visit www.maryknolllaymissioners.org.

VOICES of Compassion | 17 Riberalta – Crossroads of the Past, Present, and Future for Maryknoll by Jason Obergfell, MKLM

he recent 100th anniversary well. A Maryknoll lay missioner like Tcelebration in Riberalta me was able to recapture some of our was a unique moment when own history in Riberalta by simply the past, present, and future all sitting back and listening. intersected at the same time. It was a unique moment when Bolivia’s In the present moment, one could Maryknollers enjoyed weaving the experience the past as well simply diversity of Maryknoll vocations and by traveling up the river. The boats histories together in community. used by the vicariate today are not much different than those used Sharing a special moment of many years ago. The river, and the community where the past and jungle forests forming its borders, are present come together. probably similar to what they were when Maryknoll lay missioners like Joe Honerkamp traveled upstream The past was shared through many years ago with Maryknoll mission stories told by Maryknoll Sisters, priests, and Brothers. It was a Sisters who lived through Riberalta’s privilege to follow in their footsteps, transformation from a small town if only for a 2-hour boat ride. It is of 5,000 to a bustling city of privilege to be a part of Maryknoll’s 120,000 over the last 70 years. Some history in Bolivia. moments were even marked in time by Maryknoll videos that recorded But in the present moment, there images from 30 to 50 years ago. The was also a PARTY! Everywhere Maryknoll priests and Brothers had we went, the mission efforts from some of their own tales to tell as the past came alive in the present.

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It was also a moment of acknowledging the future, a future in which the Maryknoll Sisters will soon end their presence in Riberalta. The 3 Maryknoll Sisters that hosted us will be The boats used by the vicariate today are not much moving on after decades of different than those used dedicated service to the community many years ago. in Riberalta. At the same time, it was a moment to recognize the future of many young Maryknoll Everywhere we went, the people Sisters that are just beginning of Riberalta joyfully welcomed their mission journey in Bolivia. us. Their welcome was one of Riberalta has become a thriving appreciation for what Maryknoll, and independently sustainable especially the Sisters, had done over community, and much of the credit the last 70 years. In the present we could be given to Maryknoll’s efforts were able to see the products of over the last 70 years. However, the the mission labors of the past. The future calls to new “fields afar.” All schools were vibrant and functioning of those that participated in the independently. The hospital was, Maryknoll Sisters’ 100th anniversary too. A center for children with celebration were fortunate to travel disabilities, that got its start from through the crossroads of Riberalta. a Maryknoll lay missioner, was We were able to share a special also doing well. People that had moment of community where the participated in Maryknoll programs past and present came together to over the years had become successful launch Bolivia’s Maryknoll mission leaders in present day Riberalta. community into the future. There was never a shortage of

VOICES of Compassion | 19 Maryknoll Sisters Celebrate 100 Years of Mission Making God’s Love Visible

ounded 100 years ago in 1912 by Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, Fwhen mission for the American Roman Catholic Church was in its infancy and going abroad meant traversing land and sea in far rougher transportation than we know today, The Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic exist “to participate in the mission presence and activity of the universal Church so that God’s reign of peace, justice and love may be proclaimed and witnessed to throughout the world.” (Maryknoll Sisters Constitution, p. 3-4)

Giving witness to that love as nurses and doctors, teachers and theologians, social workers and agronomists, writers, veterinarians, artists, environmentalists and more, the close to 400 members of the order currently hail from 27 different countries and serve in 25 nations around the globe. Many are engaged in ministry to AIDS patients and their families. Others speak on behalf of the poor and the environment at the United Nations. Still others labor alongside youth, women, migrant workers and victims of human trafficking. For more information, please visit their website: www.maryknollsisters.org.

Photos, clockwise from right: Sister Helene O’Sullivan with victims of human trafficking; Mother Mary Joseph, right, with another Sister in Japan in 1927; Sisters Doreen Longres and Janet Miller of Maryknoll Sisters Environmental Office; Dr. Mary Annel, MM, with AIDS patient.

20 | VOICES of Compassion VOICES of Compassion | 21 Kids Only Maryknoll Lay Missioners sends missioners to countries around the world to help poor comunitites in South America, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Can you find some Brazil countries and the animals that live there in the wordEl search Salvador below? f s m l q h e a c z u o l u m n v a e c y t o t a p i r g e h p c c i a t r e e f r o g l toucan b r a z i l g m u u z x a l s e q w h g w v l w l k e n y a tapir g z e o u e d c s v n z m c l r q v a a l b g i r a f f e v e w a v n o p k j r x s i s a anteater e u w c a h e s n e l q o i d n n y r w z a n t e a t e r o tree frog s m e v r s b x q m m p y l r e q w q s c v n a u l o r y l a z h i p p o p o t a m u s i iguana t k y j r m n o s q e t k u c u h c w z n m d t t s l p n a Cambodia r w w y s e n w r y c z r b m macaw t o u c a n b z i n y u b e b l p x b s l j m c p w v i a o e a p z r o s b h e a y w r d w m w l m t y w a z e r q i i green o s p o t t e d o w l e t l a sea turtle sun bear Kenya giraffe

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Friends Across Borders is Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ mission awareness program. We invite you to deepen and enrich your understanding of mission by joining us on an exciting mission trip.

You will have the opportunity to experience what you could never discover in travel brochures, films, or books. You will experience what life is really like in communities where MKLM El Salvador missioners are living out their faith, and working for, and with, the local people.

We look forward to hearing from you and accompanying you on an experience that will change and enrich your life. Upcoming Mission tapir Awareness Trips n EL SALVADOR September 6 - 16, 2012 n KENYA September 7 - 21, 2012 tree frog n BRAZIL October, 19 - Nov. 2, 2012 n CAMBODIA February 15 –

Friends Across Borders March 1, 2013 n BOLIVIA March 22 – April 5, 2013 (tentative) macaw n TANZANIA May 31 – June 14, 2013 (tentative) Contact Us Today: CECILIA ESPINOZA Maryknoll Lay Missioner Friends Across Borders Manager P.O. Box 307 Maryknoll, NY 10545-0307 giraffe Phone: 914-762-6364 ext. 207 FAX: 914-944-3576 [email protected] www.friendsacrossborders.org

VOICES of Compassion | 23 You can Give and Receive at the same time. Want to know how?

There is a way to make a gift to Maryknoll Lay Missioners and get something back in return. It’s called a Charitable Gift Annuity, and it makes stable, fixed payments to you for life in return for your gift. It’s a great way to both give and receive.

Through our partnership with the National Catholic Community Foundation, MKLM is able to offer this gift opportunity to our donors. Establishing a charitable gift annuity is smart, rewarding and simple! In just five steps, you Did you know? can create a gift that will provide Charitable gift annuities for your future as well as ours. have been around since the early 1800s. Over To learn more about Charitable the years they have Gift Annuities and other life evolved into one of the income gifts, please contact most popular charitable Margaret Cuccinello, Advancement life income plans. Director at: (800)867-2980 or via e-mail at [email protected].

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