Sisters' Stories - Celebrating 185 years of ministry

In honor of our Foundation Day on October 24 we are sharing stories from and/or about our amazing SSND Sisters.

We invite you to help us continue to tell the stories of our Sisters this anniversary year by sharing a memory, a note about how a SSND has touched your life, or perhaps how you or your ministry are living the SSND charism. Reflections, essays and articles by and about sisters will now be featured weekly and will continue to be highlighted on our website as they come in. Please send us your submissions to comm@amssnd.org.

Echoes of Notre Dame on the Lake

In 1982, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) purchased Notre Dame on the Lake, the former campus of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mequon, Wisconsin.

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The Challenge of Living Interculturally

My classroom was by definition multicultural i.e. black and white students. I knew little of the black culture. I did know that my way wasn’t working.

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Filling the Void: SSND Missions in Honduras

Sister Mary has served in Monte Verde, a small village in the San Francisco de Opalaca municipality of Honduras, since 2006.

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A New Job Was the Path to Old Friends

“What a wonderful surprise to be reconnected with Bishop Walsh SSND faculty after almost 40 years!"

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Love That Knows No Bounds

We feel we are called to witness the love of God to humanity, and, on the other hand, we witness the same love among the peoples of Gambia.

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Changing Lives, One Woman at a Time - Sister Richarde Marie Wolf

The Refugee Outreach Program is an extension of the Central Pacific Province's Good Counsel Learning Center in Mankato, Minn.

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Sister Jane Cayer - Literature Opens New Worlds to IND Girls

Through my four years at IND, she helped me build my self-confidence at a time when many girls struggle to gain it.

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The Little School of Hope

If you are looking for a true-to-life, inspirational children's book, you will find it in “The Little School of Hope,” written by Sister Mary Dooley, SSND.