Our Achievements
Witnessing to the Gospel through determination, practical skills, and loving service.
Healthcare & Professional Services
Our sisters serve extensively across professional sectors. Within our ranks are dedicated professional doctors, clinical psychologists, nurses, midwives, and social workers. We also have specialized formators, theologians, bookkeepers, and teachers driving our administrative and spiritual growth.
Provincial Catering Enterprise
Many of our sisters are fully trained chefs and caterers. Together, they have built a flourishing Provincial catering company that provides catering and artistic decorations for feasts, weddings, ordinations, funerals, and special events, offering crucial financial support during large congregational celebrations.
Technical Self-Reliance
We take pride in maintaining our own buildings and equipment. Trained in electrical engineering and plumbing, our sisters confidently fix electronic appliances and handle major tasks like managing our boreholes to guarantee a steady water supply. Mechanical maintenance—including changing tires and repairing vehicles—is a normal part of our hands-on daily life.
Digital Graphic Design & Technology
In step with modern communication needs, our sisters have advanced in web development and graphic design. We utilize these in-house skills to design our own promotional materials, manage our publications, and completely program and maintain our congregational websites.
Empowerment through Agriculture
Our beautifully managed farm in Marseilles stands as a bright beacon of hope for the Franciscan Sisters and the surrounding residents of Assisi Village. Rooted in our fundamental mission to help the poor, this agricultural initiative has created critical job opportunities for local villagers while supplying them with fresh meat and milk.
Because of the sustainable structural care provided on the farm, we have also successfully provided secure housing and settlements for our workers and their families. Our sisters have frequently been honored and nominated across the province as the Best Female Farmer of the Year and the Best Emerging Farmer of the Year!
Current Farm Stocks
The farm also hosts vibrant fields of seasonal crops to ensure food security for the mission and neighboring areas.
Social Rehabilitation
Living out our compassionate calling, we establish and run active rehabilitation centers. These spaces offer vital structural, physical, and psychological support to vulnerable individuals struggling to navigate life's compounding hardships.
Laudato Si’ Ecological Action
Deeply aligned with Pope Francis’s environmental encyclical, we actively run community recycling initiatives. The revenue earned is used to buy seeds. We use these seeds to cultivate our mission gardens and encourage local villagers to establish vegetable patches in their own yards, sharing the resulting harvest directly with poor families on surrounding farms.
Artistic & Musical Legacies
Our congregation is home to incredible artists and musicians. This includes the legacy of the late Sr. Maria Innocentia Hummel, whose world-famous drawings and sculptures continue to bring joy in major airports globally. Our musical sisters also compose original liturgical music, filling our prayer spaces with unique hymns of praise.