Kathleen Fernholz

Kathleen (Kay) Fernholz, a School Sister of Notre Dame, grew up on the farm that is also the site of her current ministry. She has been a classroom teacher and a pastoral administrator in the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota. Currently, both she and her School Sister of Notre Dame sister, Annette, minister at Earthrise Farm where radical hospitality, Earth spirituality education, and witness bring joy into their community lifestyle. Kay is also involved in the activities of her rural setting and in a spirit of an expanding community is called on often to lead Sunday worship and preach the sermon for many of the little rural Lutheran churches in her area.