Hello all!

It's Michaela Donovan, coming to you from NET Ministries training in West St Paul, Minnesota! It's been four weeks since I left lovely New Hampshire and I have been placed on the Cincinnatti Regional Team. This means that my team and I will spend our year traveling just as many miles as any traveling team, just mostly within the state of Ohio.

My team and I have been together for two weeks and we have put on two practice retreats thus far. This means our supervisors came on retreat with us and helped us to see what we need to improve on before we head out to do full time ministry work. We will have one more retreat on Wednesday with our supervisors and then we head out this Saturday to start our ministry!

There are 13 people on my team: six men and seven women.

The men are Austin, Ben, Chris, Joe, Kenny, and Tom.

And the women are Claire, Mary, Michaela Donovan, Michaela Ratcliff, Morgan, Sarah, and Stefanie.

(In photo, top to bottom row, left to right: Tom Wasinski, Chris Ripkowski, Kenny Falls, Austin Feenstra
Michaela Ratcliff, Claire Thoemke, Michaela Donovan, Mary Schwartz, Sarah Chmelik
Stefanie Palmer, Ben Hughes, Morgan Anding, and Joe Lundin)

Together, we will minister to roughly 10,000 youth, and put on almost 100 retreats!

As we finish up training and head to Cincinnati this Saturday, I just ask that you keep us in your prayers! Please know that we are praying for you as well!


In Christ through Mary's Immaculate Heart,

Michaela Donovan