Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer is a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and served as executive director of the Conrad N. Hilton Fund for Sisters, a grant-making organization supporting the works of Catholic sisters globally, from 1999 through October 2011. She worked for five years as a missionary in Zambia, where she taught English at a secretarial college and served as executive director for the Zambia Association of Sisterhoods, the national conference of women religious. She is on the boards of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Medicines for Humanity and the International Foundation of the Good Shepherd Sisters and has served as international liaison to women religious for Global Sisters Report since January 2014.

 

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Walk a minute in their footsteps

Sisters' schools build girls up in Burkina Faso

A five-village forest journey to water wells in Africa

Despite struggles, African superiors plan for future of vibrant religious life

Q & A with Sr. Constance Fonju, educating children from Pygmy tribes

Q & A with Sr. Marie-Paul Ross, providing an education on sexuality

In the Philippines, a sister serves a community of refugee seafarers

Sister shares stories of brutality in Congo, hopes awareness will bring help

Vicenta Maria Home is a safe haven for vulnerable female workers

Struggles of the newest religious congregations

Communion of saints: Filipinos' holiday celebrations surprise, inspire

Using solar energy in sub-Saharan Africa: If only progress moved faster

Servite Sisters run thriving sustainable farm, girls' shelter in jungles of Myanmar

Reclaiming Erin Earth from salty soil in Australia

Sr. Martha Thwe has pioneered HIV/AIDS care in Myanmar

Q & A with Sr. Grace Chia, training teachers to meet children's real needs

Q & A with Sr. Ma Suling, filling a void rent by history in China

Islands of the Pacific are precarious but full of faith

Myanmar fish farm: Small $9,000 grant became sustainable enterprise

Good Shepherd Sisters empower women to escape Thailand's sex tourism trade