Lay Mission Volunteer Group

A group of 20 students from the Egan Institute of Spalding University will be working in the Bardstown, Ky., area from October 1-5. The group and their campus minister, Audrey Cecil, will be working as Lay Mission Volunteers assisting three women by painting the exterior of their homes. They will be staying on the Nazareth campus. We are happy to continue our outreach with these young adults.

An Invitation to An Encounter in Faith and Solidarity with the People of Belize

Now booking Las Flores, Belize Central America Volunteers

To sign up, please contact:

Sister Luke Boiarski, Director
SCN Lay Mission Volunteer Programs
P.O. Box 9 Nazareth, Kentucky 40048
Phone: 502-348-1581 Email: lukescn@scnky.org

• Cost: $1,500 includes round-trip airfare from Louisville, KY; lodging and food; all activities and excursions. It does not include personal purchases or optional travel insurance.
• A current passport is necessary with expiration date no more than 6 months from date of travel.
• Participants must be able to walk some distances.
• Participants need to be prepared for the heat and sun of the tropics.
• Participants must be able to handle their own luggage.
• Participants are encouraged to read “Belize: A Novel” by Carlos Ledson Miller, available in libraries and bookstores.
• The trip is open to 12 registrants only. (Priority will be given to those who have not previously participated).
• A non-refundable deposit of $750.00 is due on or before October 15, 2012. The remaining $750.00 is due by November 15, 2012.

What Will We Be About?

We will focus on meeting people, learning about other cultures, making friends and sharing faith, while we work side-by-side with people in need.

We will be working with local residents in Las Flores for home and school repairs. We will work in collaboration with our Sisters in Las Flores, Belize. Las Flores is located approximately 33 miles northwest of Belize City.

Expand Your Horizons

There is a saying in Belize that once you drink the water, you will return again and again and again...For the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and their associates, the above adage is the truth. 

The SCN ministry and presence began in Belize with Sister Mary Lynn Fields. In 1975, Mary Lynn heard the call to go to Belize. Today ten SCNs and over 30 local SCN Associates serve with the people of Belize. 

Belize, a beautiful Caribbean land with a population of 280,000, is located southeast of Mexico in Central America. Belize is a land of many cultures, the earliest being that of the great Mayan dynasties.

Lay Mission Volunteer Program

Welcome to the students from Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Mass., who will be volunteering here in Kentucky this week. During their time at Nazareth, they will be painting three homes of people in need in Nelson County, Ky.

We pray for them and their journey all this week.

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

The SCN Lay Mission Volunteer Program is scheduling mission trips to Belize, Botswana, New Orleans, Appalachia (Southeastern Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania), Montana, Henryville, Ind., and Tutwiler, Miss., to take place starting in October of this year. The purposes of the program is to involve lay persons in meaningful ways in service to others in the spirit of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.


Contact Sister Luke today.

Sister Luke Boiarski, SCN
P.O. Box 9, Nazareth, KY 40048
(502) 348-1578
lukescn@scnky.org

Diaster Relief Orientation

On Saturday the first orientation for the SCN Disaster Relief Team was held at Nazareth, Ky. This team will respond emergency relief to disasters within a 500 miles radius of the Motherhouse

View photos from the day on Facebook