Sister Darlene Pienschke, SDS has returned to her Wisconsin roots to engage in her new ministry as Pastoral Care Associate at St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus. Sister Darlene feels privileged to work with Father Mike Burns, SDS, in caring for the spiritual needs of St. Anne’s residents. She brings a variety of ministerial experience, most recently as a full-time hospice nurse in Tucson.

Project Rachel founder Vicki Thorn, who was honored as our 2010 Woman of Faith will speak at an all-school assembly at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School on Friday, January 27. The assembly will kick off Catholic Schools Week and highlight justice and respect for all human life as it relates to Catholic identity and values. Ms. Thorn founded her post-abortion healing ministry in Milwaukee in 1984, and today it reaches all around the world.

What do Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Coach Mike McCarthy and the rest of the Green Bay Packers have in common with the Sisters of the Divine Savior? Even while mourning the Packers’ recent playoffs loss, we reached out and asked the Packers to become part of our team of Salvatorians who have worked tirelessly since 2001 to try to abolish slavery. During January, which is Salvatorian Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we invited these men to respond to the reality of human slavery in our country and the world. In personal letters to twenty members of the Packers organization who were identified as influence-makers by our Sisters who are avid Packers fans, we shared the reality of human trafficking. The letter noted that with each Super Bowl, there is a concurrent increase in the trafficking of young women, teens, and children for sex by some of the thousands who travel to the game. We asked these Packers leaders to talk with one another and with their colleagues about how they can take a personal role in helping to change that reality.
We expect to see our Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl come 2013. We pray that we’ll also see them take a public role in today’s abolition movement. As a member of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Region 9, we also joined with more than twenty other women’s religious congregations in Wisconsin to raise this issue with the Packers organization. Do you have a favorite Packer? Why not write to him and ask him to take a role?
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Since 2001, Salvatorians across the United States have made awareness and prevention of human trafficking and slavery a social justice priority. Today, we :

• host an international website with 10,000+ visitors a month
• participate in nationwide outreach programs and seminars
• publish a free international e-newsletter, Stop Trafficking
• sponsor Hope House ministry in California, supporting women rescued from slavery in the U.S.

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