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Meet Sister Christine Garcia

Christine Garcia, SSNDSister Christine Garcia was born in San Antonio, Texas. She professed first vows as a School Sister of Notre Dame in 1978 Dallas, Texas. She served as a teacher for 14 years in Texas in Dallas, San Antonio and Rio Grande City. She was principal at Immaculate Conception School in Rio Grande City from 1991 to 1997. In 1998, after serving as teacher and assistant principal in San Antonio, Sister Christine responded to a congregational invitation to discern ministry in Pakistan. In August of 1998, while doing so, she was assigned as transportation coordinator for the SSND at St. Mary of the Pines in Chatawa, Miss. She and three other SSND left for Pakistan on May 9, 2000, and returned to the USA days after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. She then was called to serve as vocation ministry director for the former Dallas Province from 2002 to 2007. Upon completion of her term in vocation ministry, Sister Christine served as administrative assistant in the Office of Religious Education for Children in the Diocese of Laredo, 2007-2008. Responding to the diminishment needs of her parents, her ministry was focused on care for them in San Antonio. During that time Christine was a member of the Quad Core Process Committee that met several times a year with sisters from the four founding provinces to plan conversations and carry out gatherings for the sisters in preparation for the birthing of the Central Pacific Province. Also at that time, from 2008 to 2010, Sister Christine was part of a team asked to study the situation for migrants being deported along the USA-Mexico border. From August 2010 to May 2015, she served the migrant community as volunteer with the SSND border ministry in Douglas, Ariz.

Sister Christine earned a bachelor’s in elementary education from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1976 and a master’s in Catholic School Administration & Supervision from Boston College in Massachusetts in 1991.

On how my ministries have prepared me for leadership …

First of all, I hesitate to say I am prepared well for serving in the “leadership post.” Is one ever really prepared?!? But I can say that 37 years of living as a SSND, personally experiencing the fidelity of God, celebrating life, and discerning and serving God’s call in community and ministry are strengths that help me to trust and dare to say yes to this new call from my sisters.

My Scripture life guide …

There are two, both from the Gospel of John …

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

“As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth. I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.” John 17:18-20

Photo credit: Sister Mary Kay Gosch

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