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Terry Modica is the behind-the-scenes administrator of Good News Ministries, as well as its online teacher, webmaster, and writer. She is the author of the daily Good News Reflections and is the team member who is most available to travel to parishes as a speaker. She was certified by the Diocese of St. Petersburg for Lay Pastoral Ministry in 2003. For more info, read her biography. She lives in Valrico, a suburb of Tampa, Florida, with her husband Ralph. |
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Ralph Modica is the President of GNM's board of directors and keeps on top of all the legal paperwork in running a non-profit organization. Occasionally, he takes vacation from his job in the corporate world to travel to speaking engagements. A lively instructor, his specialty is how to be a missionary in the workplace by imitating Christ even in the most stressful environments. A cancer survivor and the father of young adults, he also helps people (men especially) find God in the challenges of illness and parenting.
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Nancy Gardner
is a board member who serves as our expert on the issues of the divorced, separated and widowed, the abused, the needy and others who are marginalized, outcast or neglected. She lives in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. For more, read her biography. |
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Bob Metivier is a board member who specializes in parish team development and the call to rebuild the Church through the uniting of its members using the techniques of team management, conflict resolution, and effective leadership styles. He is Music Director and the Director of Parish Life in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He has a Contemporary Catholic music ministry (see www.psalms.ws) to help people find an active and positive relationship with God and with each other within their faith community. |
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Richard Huggins has been compiling the Daily Blessings for Good News Ministries since 2004. He has a BA in Theology with minor studies in sociology and moral theology. He is a professed, lay Oblate of Saint Benedict. He serves on the team because he loves to research the Saints and, as a long-time member of the GNM e-group, The Emmaus Journey, he helps answer questions on scripture and church teachings. He lives in Princeton, Indiana. |
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Celi Anatrella translates the Daily Blessings into Spanish as well as many of the WordBytes. She loves serving our sweet Lord as much as she can, especially if it reaches the Spanish speaking population using her translating skills.
Celi was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador (South America) and moved to the USA in 1995 when she married Paul. She joined the GNM team after being served by it for about a year. She lives in Huntersville, North Carolina.
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Adriana Banda translates the daily Good News Reflections into Spanish. She had been a subscriber of the reflections for four years when we needed a new translator and she volunteered to help. She was an answer to our prayers, and the opportunity to join the Good News Ministries team was an answer to her prayers; she was asking God for a way to give back to the ministry that had given her so much. In 2002, she had searched the internet for a guide on how to pray the Rosary and came across the GNM daily reflections, little realizing that later become part of this ministry. She lives in Arlington, Texas.
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Stacy Trasancos is our Online Community Administrator. She servers as moderator of the e-groups Parents Who Pray and the Emmaus Journey. She also helps moderate the prayer requests that are posted in the Good News Prayer Room. She joined the team initially because she wanted to bring the gift of prayer to other parents. The mother of six and grandmother of one, she came to Good News Ministries during a 2 1/2-year process of RCIA, when she and her husband started using the daily reflections together; this remains the most unifying aspect of their relationship with each other and with God. In her ministry at GNM, she prays every day for the Lord to use her to bring others closer to Heaven. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Donna (Cookie) Hill makes our Holy Family Rosary Beads to ship, free of charge, to anyone anywhere. She is handicapped with a crippled right hand. Seeking something to do for Jesus and His Mother, she figured out a way to make rosaries.
After drifting away from her faith, she returned the Catholic Church and now serves on the Good News Team because she believes in what we stand for and how we serve others with the Word of God. She lives in Goldsboro, North Carolina. |
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Prayer Network - We have about 180 people from all around the world who have joined the Good News Prayer Network to pray for those who post prayer requests in our Prayer Room. |
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Priests - We collaborate with a number of priests. Father Gary Dowsey, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunedin, Florida, is our chaplain. We also have close associations with Mons. Joseph Kimu of the Diocese of Blantyre in Malawi, Central Africa, who is currently studying for a doctorate in Rome, with Bishop Vincent Kympat of Jowai, India,
and with Father Frank DeSiano, CSP, who is director of the Paulist Associates to which Terry and Ralph belong.
Many other priests are connected to us in less formal ways; read comments from some of them. |
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Help Wanted
Good News Ministries is always open to the Holy Spirit-guided ideas of those who want to get involved as a team member. Here are a few areas where help is currently being prayed for.
Podcaster
We'd like to podcast the Good News Reflections. This requires a volunteer who has the equipment and the radio-quality voice to record the reflections with time to get them done reliably in advance.
Office Help
There are a few clerical duties that could be fulfilled from anywhere, such as processing the bounced mail for the daily reflections. Local help (Tampa area) is needed for Terry's for-profit ministry at Catholic Digital Resources.
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