Sr. Joyce Ann Hertzig

  • Citizenship is Goal of Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids Ministry

    Citizenship is Goal of Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids Ministry

    February 20, 2019

    As the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids WORD~ESL ministry grew and expanded, students expressed a desire to become citizens, so our tutors began to prepare them individually. Within a brief time, we began to form small groups of students who were eligible and wanted to study with us. When they were ready, we would contact Liz Balck […]

  • Advocating for the Rights of People in Poverty in the United States

    Advocating for the Rights of People in Poverty in the United States

    October 2, 2016

    Training teachers and integrating principles of Catholic social teaching into curriculum came easily to justice-minded Dominican Sister Joyce Ann Hertzig. “I was once asked how one could integrate Catholic identity or Catholic Social Teaching into a math class. ‘Develop a story problem about the ratio of food to people in the world,’ I suggested,” says […]