Across the Good Shepherd network, sisters and partners-in-mission bring complementary gifts, professional expertise, lived experience, and spiritual commitment to a shared mission.
Together, we work through action, advocacy and spirituality to empower lives, uphold rights and restore dignity.
Partnership has been part of the Good Shepherd story from its beginnings. Our mission has grown through relationships between sisters and people who share the call to respond with compassion, courage and justice.
Partners-in-mission are people who freely choose to accept co-responsibility and work collaboratively to advance the Good Shepherd mission. They include staff, volunteers, board members, benefactors, associates, companions, professional advisers, community collaborators and many others who put the mission and its values into practice.
Partnership is not centered on the sisters, nor is it simply a response to fewer religious vocations. It is centered on the mission. Sisters and partners-in-mission have distinct vocations and roles, but belong to one body and share responsibility according to their gifts, experience, and responsibilities.
There are many ways to share in the Good Shepherd mission. Depending on the country and local ministry, you may be able to:
Opportunities and forms of partnership vary by country. Contact your nearest Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd community or ministry, or contact us by completing the form below.
Apoya a las comunidades de hermanas que trabajan en algunos de los lugares más necesitados del mundo. Tu donación tiene un impacto directo en sus esfuerzos diarios por luchar contra la pobreza y la injusticia social en África, Asia y América Latina.
Con tu apoyo, las hermanas pueden proporcionar atención médica esencial a las personas mayores y poner en marcha proyectos comunitarios que suelen ser ignorados por iniciativas de mayor alcance. Tu contribución se convierte en un faro de esperanza que capacita a estas comunidades para crear un cambio duradero desde dentro.
Si quieres apoyar generosamente a la misión global del Buen Pastor y contribuir a sostener y desarrollar nuestros apostolados y proyectos, considera hacer una donación a través de la Good Shepherd International Foundation (GSIF).
Formar parte de esta misión de esta manera nos ayudará a seguir apoyando programas que empoderan a niñas, mujeres y niños que viven en la pobreza, son explotados, maltratados, discriminados, víctimas del tráfico de personas o forzados a emigrar.
Rep. Dem. del Congo, Kenia, Sudán del Sur, Uganda
Madagascar, Mauricio, Reunión
Senegal, Burkina Faso
Bélgica, Francia, Hungría, Países Bajos
Italia, Malta, Portugal, España
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico
Brasil, Paraguay