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Maryknoll Lay Missioner Dee Dungy, who joined the lay mission organization in 2011, served on a pastoral team visiting the elderly and infirm in the slum of Anlong Kngan, a community of displaced people outside the capital city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. She now serves refugees in Kenya. (Sean Sprague/Cambodia)

Fifty Years of Sharing Hope

By Jennifer Tomshack | June 2, 2025
Celebrating a milestone anniversary, Maryknoll Lay Missioners (MKLM) honors an inspiring past, a compelling present and a strong future.
Dusk falls on Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, where a 14-member volunteer team made up mostly of Jesuit seminarians and priests carried out a search and rescue mission Dec. 20-22, 2024, to look for missing or dead migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. OSV News/Courtesy of Luke Taylor)

Poem: A Migrant’s Trail

By Richard Dixon | June 2, 2025
In this moving poem, Maryknoll Lay Missioner Rick Dixon follows one migrant’s trail to its tragic end, a grave marker in a potter’s field.
Maryknoll Father William Senger pauses with altar servers before processing into Mass at San Juan Apóstol Church in El Remate, one of the dozen chapel buildings constructed for the parish by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in Guatemala’s Petén region. (Octavio Durán/Guatemala)

Hope Triumphs in Guatemala

By Deirdre Cornell | March 3, 2025
Maryknoll Father William Senger builds a parish in Guatemala by constructing chapels and forming lay leaders.
Maryknoll Lay Missioners Joshua Sisolak and Marjorie Humphrey are called to serve in Bolivia and East Africa during their sending ceremony. (Andrea Moreno-Díaz/U/S.)

Sharing Jesus’ Heart

By Jennifer Tomshack | March 3, 2025
Maryknoll Lay Missioners Joshua Sisolak and Marjorie Humphrey are commissioned to serve in Bolivia and East Africa.
Doorman Ivan Gutiérrez Choque, who has overcome disabilities, was himself raised in an Amanecer home, cared for by now-retired Maryknoll Brother Alexander Walsh. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

Spoons and a Spinning Top

By Deirdre Cornell | March 3, 2025
Maryknoll Brother Joseph Bruener serves at a home for boys at risk of becoming street children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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