The Journey Vol. II 2021

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Holy Work During Holy Week

Associate Director of the Lay Mission Volunteer Program Ellen Sprigg (front, left), joins Americorps member Julia Gerwe (front, right), and other volunteers in assisting refugees at the Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas.

Moved by news reports and firsthand accounts of the crisis at the United StatesMexico border, three volunteers with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth answered the “call to serve” during Lent. This spring, Ellen Sprigg, associate director of the Lay Mission Volunteer Program, and Julia Gerwe, an AmeriCorps member who is in ministry at Nazareth this year, volunteered, along with Ellen’s daughter, Lauren, to assist refugees at Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas. 16

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