Since 2015, we have partnered with Sioux Falls Christian radio station, Life 96.5, to focus on our Warm a Neighbor project. Each month, the radio station highlights a non-profit to address a local need.  They ask their listeners to help this organization by donating items. We have been fortunate to grow this partnership each year and be one of their “January ministries,” collecting warm winter items for clients at Caminando Juntos, our ministry with Latinos in the Sioux Falls area.…

submitted by Sister Sheila Leonard It was like any other ordinary wintery day in January ... until it wasn’t! The whimsical wintery image above hangs in my front entrance, a 50th birthday gift from one of my kindergarten classes a few years back!  The original songwriter could never in his wildest dreams have envisioned what we endearingly now call our “Snowmageddon 2020” here in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. What turned out in mid-January to be what has been called the storm…

Picture above, from left to right: Our Vietnamese Sisters Tuyet, Tinh, Thanh, Theresa Marie and Thoa stand beside the tree decorated with envelopes of New Years’ money expressing the Vietnamese tradition of passing on a year of blessings. The Lunar New Year celebration began on January 25, and extends until February 8, 2020. On February 1, the Dubuque Presentation community celebration was hosted by our Vietnamese sisters and several of their friends. A delicious meal was served and lovely songs…