Meet an Associate

Dominican Sisters have served the Alaskan Diocese faithfully in years past, but now only a small Associate group remains, the Northern Lights OPAs. This is why Associate Peggy Frank usually tries to recruit people to the vast mission field that is her state.

Associate Rebecca Peacock-Creagh (Columbus, OH) works with children surrounding St. Dominic Parish through a program called F.E.A.T. in the NEIGHBORhood. F.E.A.T. is an acronym for the streets surrounding the church, with "NEIGHBOR" capitalized to remind the children that they live in a neighborhood and not a "hood." Currently, Rebecca is working with the area children on a garden project, improving St. Dominic’s garden and teaching the children life lessons in the process.

If she could, Associate Lucy Strohl would take you all to her home. Though she resides in Great Bend, her true home is about 70 miles away: a south-central Kansas farmstead. Always buzzing with John Deere activity, this was where she grew up working long hours with her family preparing soil, planting seeds, and praying for a good wheat harvest.