After the Board Meeting

Today was an unscheduled day. Originally I thought I was going to speak in a parish this weekend but that was not possible to arrange so I was free to enjoy Bethany and the people there now.

At 9:30 AM, I went to Sunday mass at the chapel at the Sisters' Center.

It was a nice cool clear morning and the colors of spring were around the main building at the Sisters' Center.

The priests celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2011. The sisters are celebrating theirs in 2012.

In the afternoon Alicia and Bernie Butkiewicz came to Bethany to meet some of us briefly. Here they talk to Mike Wrob, one of the board of directors.

In the afternoon the Mission Integration Program (MIP) began. This helps returning missioners reintegrate into the day-to-day world after they finish their contract with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners or prepares them to return to their mission countries.

In the evening there was a BBQ to begin the MIP and to allow the board members still at Bethany to meet the returning missioners in the class of 2008. Lauren Vater, Susan Sporl, Peg Vamosy, Charlie Dittmeier, and Cecilia Espinoza posed for a photograph.