2002 Archives
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Celebrating the Good News
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SUN photo(s) Paul Finch
UTICA — Over the past 10 years, Catholic evangelization has been lived out through the work accomplished at the Good News Foundation. Using the U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral statement “Go Make Disciples: A National Plan and Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States,” the foundation continues to be on the cutting edge of bringing the Gospel message to those in need of the Good News.

“Every day is an exciting day,” said Katherine Poupart, director of the Good News Foundation. “We are always looking to the future to see what it holds.”

The growth of the Good News Foundation has come from serving people’s need for assistance in their spiritual journey and a desire for a deeper understanding of scripture. Ten thousand bibles have been given to groups, schools, churches and individuals by the foundation over the past 10 years. It’s just one simple way the Good News Foundation has worked in and around the diocese.

One year after relocating its offices from Barton Avenue in downtown Utica to Cosby Manor Road in the Utica suburb of Deerfield, the foundation has adjusted to its surroundings on the former Vincentian Fathers’ complex. The Good News Foundation sits on 63 acres, much of which is still woodland and open fields. Renovations continue, with new rooms being added and old ones being refurbished.
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Keeping Faith
Dec. 5-11, 2002
Keeping Faith
By Steve Dickhout/ SUN contributing writer
SUN photo(s) Paul Finch
In a newsletter dated March 1989, Unity Acres’ founder, the late Father Raymond McVey, reflected on the Acres’ beginnings twenty years earlier, as a sort of a modern-day Exodus; the move from Syracuse to the old abandoned sanatorium in Orwell as something like the Israelites departing Egypt; a flight from darkness and the troubled life of the streets, a flight from an endless cycle of deprivation, poverty, alcohol, drugs, and jail.

Overwhelmed perhaps by an irresistible pressure of grace, Father McVey, together with five trusting men, embarked on an uncertain journey of unseen result, by faith and in obedience to the mysterious promptings of the Spirit. For the men of Unity Acres, it is an Exodus which continues to this very day.

“The grain is low.” So begins a conversation with Emil Vanderhoeght, one of the 80+ residents of Unity Acres, a house of hospitality for men in the northern Oswego County town of Orwell. Vanderhoeght is currently one of the care-takers of the Acres’ small herd of goats and cattle.
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