NC - Spring 2018
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LEADERSHIP<br />
A farewell with our<br />
leadership team<br />
GOD’S ROADMAP<br />
FOR THE ROAD<br />
WE TRAVEL<br />
by Sr. Catherine Fedewa, Assistant<br />
Provincial Superior/Councilor<br />
Looking over the past five and a<br />
half years, what can I say about the<br />
blessings and challenges of leadership<br />
in Holy Family Province?<br />
Needing to quickly get to know so<br />
many more Sisters, ministries and<br />
cultures was a challenge, but that<br />
was also one of the biggest blessings<br />
of this ministry. When we often talk<br />
about (and pray about) our unity in<br />
diversity, I have been privileged to<br />
witness both. We do indeed have<br />
diversity and that is such a gift…no<br />
“cookie cutter” Sisters here! Yet, time<br />
and again we’ve come to see how we<br />
are ONE in Nazareth.<br />
A bigger challenge was moving away<br />
from “active ministry” with God’s<br />
people and having to focus on internal<br />
ministry of the province. So often<br />
we are concerned about accepting<br />
corporate leadership versus serving<br />
peoples’ needs.<br />
What I came to understand and find<br />
as a blessing, is that this administrative<br />
role IS ministry, and a very necessary<br />
and important one. How many times<br />
can we hear the cliché, “You can’t<br />
give what you don’t have,” and yet we<br />
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