Back to School at BOMCA!

Sep 28, 2019 | Education, Youth

I don’t know about you, but I looked forward to every holiday from school in all my years as a student and equally hated going back to school after the holiday ended. My best memory about the first day of school, from grade school to college, is that there was hardly...

Open House Precedes New School Year

Sep 14, 2019 | Education

At the BOMCA graduation ceremony last July, the program included students creatively showcasing what they had learned to their parents and other stakeholders, like myself, in attendance. A young primary school student named Rosemary stole the show with her “names for...

Masters Perform Unforgettable Drama!

Aug 30, 2019 | Education, Youth

The students of BOMCA (a.k.a. “the Masters”) perform dramas to express the Self-Emptying (Phil 2:6-11) mission of HEAL and the charism and apostolate of the Messengers of Justice Sisters (MOJ’s). I witnessed such a performance at my send off ceremony on July 13, the...

Quiz competition fosters Servant Leadership!

Apr 5, 2019 | Education

Driving home into Chicago recently via the I-94 Expy, I noticed a building on the roadside with a large painting of abolitionist pioneer, Frederick Douglass. Next to his visage are the words, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free!” Indeed, there is no...

Better Practices for Better Education

May 10, 2018 | Education, News

I remember when I was at Brother Rice High School how one of my teachers named Brother Moore would never give a grade of 100% on any of his tests or assignments. His reason, as he would say, was that “there is always room for improvement.” In HEAL’s educational...

From Dungeon of Despair to House of Hope

Mar 29, 2018 | Education, Youth

Sometimes, great servant leaders (Mt. 20:28) come from humble and dangerous beginnings. Take Moses, who Yahweh chose to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt. Faced with Pharaoh’s plan to reduce the Hebrew slave population by killing newborn boys, Moses’s...