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Our Adopted Missionary, Father Chris Cardone	Boys perform a custom dance at the parish festival.
The students in Grade 3 have adopted Father Chris Cardone as their missionary. Father Cardone lives in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. In the picture above you can see Father and some of his parishioners standing in front of his parish church. During Lent, the third grade students at St. Teresa had mission raffles and sent the money to Bishop Chris in the Solomon Islands. Mrs. Garner, a third grade teacher, has known Father since 1988 when he was stationed at St. Gertrude Church in Cincinnati. Her son, Jimmy, was a Cub Scout at that time. He was working on his Parvuli Dei Award and Father Cardone was helping the boys with the requirements. When Mrs. Garner’s mother-in-law was dying, Father came to the house and gave her the sacrament, Anointing of the Sick. He also had a prayer service for her at her gravesite. Father was then transferred to the Solomon Islands. When he comes to visit Cincinnati, he still sees Mrs. Garner and her family. Her husband, a barber, still cuts Father’s hair. Since there is no electricity in the area of the Solomon Islands where Father lives, they do not have refrigerators for milk or ice cream. Father always enjoys going to Graeter’s when he is in town. In June 2001, he became a bishop in the Islands.	Map of the Solomon Islands
	Solomon Islands Information
	Here is a picture of Bishop Cardone and Mrs. Garner This picture was taken in the summer of 2001 when Bishop Chris Cardone celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Gertrude Church in Cincinnati, his first mission outpost.