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Feed the hungry
The “Kitchen Ministry” of San Felipe de Jesús Parish in Fennville, Michigan, feeds the community and raises funds for this parish serving migrant farmworkers in the Kalamazoo diocese. Sisters Berley Gámez Hernández and Maryud Cortez Restrepo, Missionary Sisters of the Divine Spirit from Colombia, are part of Catholic Exten- sion’s U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program.
Shelter the homeless
Sister Luz Lara Solís, a Catechist Sister of Jesus Cruci ed from Mexico, talks to a homeless woman in Salinas, California. She is also part of Catholic Extension’s U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program.
Pray for the living and the dead
Vernon the Boy, a Chippewa Cree artist on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Box Elder, Montana, is a parishioner at St. Mary Church. He has started a unique bereavement ministry by painting portraits of deceased parishioners
for their wakes and funerals. Catholic Extension helped build St. Mary Church and has been supporting its pastor’s salary for decades.
Clothe the naked
The A ic, a thri store run by St. Paul Catholic Mission
in McKee, Kentucky, o ers clothing to the many needy families in the Appalachian mountains. Catholic Extension helped pay the salary of the mission’s pastoral associate. n To view a Catholic Extension video on St. Paul’s minis- tries, visit catholicextension.org/McKee.