Sr. Jeanine has a background in Social Work and Pastoral Administration having worked in the field of Mission, Values, and Ethics for a variety of hospitals in the mid-west. She
also has 3 years of study in the field of Spiritual Direction with a certificate of completion from Shalem Spiritual Direction Training Center in Baltimore. A call to serve her
community as an Incorporation/Formation Minister drew her to the west coast and eventually Oregon. Sr. Jeanine has served the church as a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas for nearly 40 years. She lives in community with Sr. Anne Sekul, RSM, an iconographer, in Silverton.