In-person Summer Camp in Lithuania is canceled. The COVID-19 pandemic also prevented Global Outreach from welcoming the 2020-2021 students. A "Safer at Home" order also resulted in all GO students remaining in the US to attend school virtually. First students born after "The Velvet Revolution" participate in the program.Ģ013 ~ Columbus Catholic High School in Marshfield, WI welcomes its first GO students.Ģ014 ~ Global Outreach welcomes its first students from Poland.Ģ020 ~ COVID-19 pandemic shortens the GO students participation in the GO program year participation in the Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Several students returned to their native countries where they continued to participate virtually in their American high school classes. GO welcomes its new Executive Director, Barbara Tota-Boryczka. Also key to understanding the methodology of Global Outreach is to recognize that the real influence of a leader does not ultimately depend on that person’s own talent or charisma, but, rather, on the strength and clarity of the vision that the person articulates.Ģ008 ~ Mary Piette, Global Outreach Executive Director, retires as its Director and joins the GO Board of Directors. The way to change them is to form people of competence to have a servant ethic with a vision to take over institutions and change them to better serve the needs of the people. He pointed out that our institutions are large and powerful, often inept, and sometimes corrupt. They would help the students prepare to do what Bishop Cirkle of Brno, Czech Republic, suggested when he spoke in Menasha in the mid-1990’s, i.e., “return as missionaries to their own countries.” Essential to this vision were the insights of Robert Greenleaf, author of “Servant Leadership,” who argued that if society is to be renewed, it must be renewed through institutions because institutions control our lives. American Catholics could participate in the missionary activity of the Church without leaving their own homes. This vision of Global Outreach won immediate interest and support, giving American Catholics opportunities, after decades of praying for the conversion of Russia, to put their faith into action in a new era of hope. It promised to be an opportunity for Catholic families, schools and parishes to participate creatively in the new evangelization. This was an opportunity for SMC and other American Catholic high schools to become more catholic as well as more Catholic by sharing different Catholic faith experiences and traditions. The idea was to utilize the structures of the Catholic Church, specifically its parochial secondary schools, to link Catholic families which had survived the persecution with Catholic families in the U.S., hoping that their children could share friendship and faith in the new era of religious freedom and inspire one another as fellow Catholics. In the meantime, with the fall of communism, an opportunity opened in Central/Eastern and Northern Europe to assist the Church there in the formation of a new generation of young Catholic leaders.
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