by Kevin Wells | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Children
The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 15, 2023 | Blog, Father Al
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” As the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus approaches, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children)...
by Kevin Wells | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog, Children, Sisters
The driver steered his car down a backcountry road that split canopies of great oaks, whose moss dripped from its long branches like Louisiana tinsel. The hardly-traveled road is a place where hawks soar over towering tree tops and deer and wild boar roam unencumbered...
by The Sisters of Mary | Jul 30, 2023 | Blog, Video
Lives Transformed | Eder’s Testimony
by Paul Gesterling | Jul 26, 2023 | Blog, Children
ONE OF A KIND CELEBRATION 20,000 children celebrate their birthdays in world’s largest one day celebration. The event, named ‘Every Child’s Birthday’ will take place Tuesday, August 15th across six countries globally, and will mark the birthdays of some of the world’s...
by The Sisters of Mary | Jul 23, 2023 | Blog, Video
The Sisters of Mary are the rescuers of the bullied. The Sisters climb mountains bathed in human monsters to save a single soul. Jim Caviezel traveled a river in Sound of Freedom to save a trafficked girl; the Sisters of Mary climb dark mountains to save an unnumbered...