New Holstein teens address
human concerns

	CLEAN AND SHINE: Sallie Fett, Rececca Birschbach and Jacky Schmitz clean the car belonging to Fr. Harold Berryman, pastor of Holy Family Parish, New Holstein, as part of a fund-raiser in support of a mission in Honduras. The three girls are part of the parish human concerns committee. (Rick Evans photo)

By Jeff Kurowski
Compass Assistant Editor

Many religious education classes participate in service projects, but last year's ninth grade class at Holy Rosary Parish, New Holstein, took it several steps further.

The teens formed a parish Human Concerns Committee, and identified two immediate causes to support in Honduras.

The committee is trying to raise funds for a mission served by Sr. Dorothy Pelt, a Sister of Mercy, who resides in Puerto Cortes. For 26 years, Sr. Dorothy has ministered to 66 mountain villages in northwest Honduras. The people in the villages are extremely poor. Many families make less than $1 a day.

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