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NCNWR 16th Annual Conference 
SEPTEMBER 21-24, 2010
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Sisters of Mercy South Central Community Elect Inaugural Leaders

August 4, 2008

The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas South Central Community has elected its inaugural leadership team.

Sister Kathy Green of Cincinnati was elected as the community’s first president by more than 430 Sisters of Mercy from 18 states, Guam and Jamaica who attended the 2008 Assembly of Elections at the Cintas Center on Xavier University’s campus July 10-12.

Sister Jane Hotstream of St. Louis was elected vice president. Others elected to serve on the first South Central Community Leadership Team were Sister Barbara Wheeley of Baltimore, Sister Mary Angela Perez of Guam, Sister Marie Chin of Jamaica and Sister Paulette Williams of Belmont, N.C.

The leadership team – which will be based in Belmont, N.C. – will officially assume office on Sept. 2. The election culminated a process that began in 2002, when the Sisters of Mercy of the regional communities of Baltimore, Cincinnati, North Carolina and St. Louis – along with the affiliated regions of Guam and Jamaica – began exploring a collaborative organizational model.

During the past six years, leadership teams, task forces and committees from the regional communities laid the groundwork for creating a new community to support their life and mission.

“Our desire to reshape and reform the community grew from our call, as Sisters of Mercy, to reach out with courage and love to the needy of our time,” Green said. “As apostolic women religious in the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, we have a new community that is not simply a merger, but a new creation.

“This new creation will be shaped by our members, associates and co-ministers, and by the Holy Spirit acting within and among us.”

The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas South Central Community includes about 748 sisters, 619 associates and one companion.

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas is an international community of women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education, with a special concern for women and children. In innovative and traditional ways, Sisters of Mercy address human needs through collaborative efforts in education, healthcare, housing, and pastoral and social services.

In addition to the South Central Community, the Institute is comprised of five other communities with more than 4,200 sisters who serve in North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Guam and the Philippines. More than 3,000 Mercy associates, several companions in Mercy, more than 600 Mercy Volunteer Corps alumni and hundreds of co-workers in Mercy-sponsored programs and institutions also share in its mission, following the example of Mercy foundress, Catherine McAuley.

CONTACT: Doug Hinson (704) 829-5260