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As Ralph and Terry searched for the right place to live, God led them to Brandon, a suburb of Tampa. They moved into their new home on New Year's Eve -- a symbolically appropriate time to begin a new life! A mere 30 days into 1995, Charlie Osburn happened to be in town for a speaking engagement. When he saw Ralph and Terry, he suggested that they start a branch of Good News Ministries there.
God had already laid the groundwork. Father Christopher Fitzgerald, of the neighboring St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Seffner, wanted to host the Evangelization School, and he gladly became Terry & Ralph's laison with the diocese to obtain approval for the start of the ministry. One of his parishioners, Donna Obringer, had been praying the Rosary for two years, asking God to bring forth people who could make it happen. No wonder the Blessed Mother visited Terry in Pensacola!
In June, the whole Modica family went to the Pensacola school. At the same time, Fathers Fred and John Buckley attended. In the photo, they are receiving their graduation certificates from Jeanne and Charlie Osburn.
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