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CSASM is a unique body composed of lay and vowed religious members who reflect the diversity of the sponsored ministries as well as cultural, gender, and geographic diversity. Class A Members have delegated canonical responsibility for stewardship of mission and resources to Class B Members. CSASM fulfills its responsibilities through strategic planning, the exercise of reserved powers delegated to them by Class A Members, and visioning for the future shape of sponsorship.
CSASM COMMISSIONING - APRIL 26, 2007
The April meeting of CSA Sponsorship Ministry (CSASM) concluded with a commissioning ceremony of its ten members. New and current members of CSASM, the General Council, many members of the congregation, and sponsorship staff gathered in the motherhouse chapel.
Sister Joann Sambs described sponsorship as "a call, a vocation, and gift to the people and to the church. Sponsorship as a ministry lives in hope because it knows that there is a future in which God is present, caring, healing, calling, and sending. It is a ministry of possibilities - not certainty or even probability, but possibility for the future."
Sister Joann individually called by name the new members of CSASM - Joan Schilke, Barbara Senn, Sister Christi Ann Laudolff, and Brian Johnson - and invited them to serve in the ministry of sponsorship.
Similarly, the six current members of CSASM - Larry Pheifer, Beth Harwood, and Sisters Mary Noel Brown, Lucina Halbur, Ann McKean, and Susan Stucki - were invited to join the others by recommitting to this ministry on behalf of the church and the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes.
A firepot, placed upon the altar, was lit as a symbol of the Divine Fire which impels the mission of Jesus Christ and as a reminder that God is the fire of our lives.
By publicly accepting the call to the ministry of sponsorship, CSASM members committed to hold in trust what was begun by others, to serve CSA as connector with the sponsored ministries, to ensure incarnation of gospel values in the ministries, and to practice and grow a model that intentionally promotes lay leadership in sponsorship.
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