Sister’s project provides needed basics

Sister Christella Buser is nothing if not practical. And she is personable, listening and talking in equal measure.

Those traits came together again late last week, when she made another delivery in a project that began three years ago. With the help of Sister Clarene Kennedy, Sister Christella packed up several boxes of sample-size toiletries and other personal products and gave them to agencies in both Concordia and Salina.


The project grew out of “listening to people,” Sister Christella explains. “This helps people who don’t have the simplest things.”


And it continues, she notes, by mentioning it to other sisters and people wherever she goes. She is particularly appreciative of the many small donations she receives throughout the year from fellow Sisters of St. Joseph, including those who, like her, live at the congregation’s Motherhouse in Concordia.

In fact, this year those donations came in so fast she needed to make her deliveries early. So instead of waiting until around Thanksgiving, as she has done in the past, she enlisted Sister Clarene and they loaded up the trunk last Thursday. During the afternoon, they made deliveries to Salina’s Ashby House (for women and children), the Rebecca A. Morrison House (for families of patients at Salina Regional Health Center), the Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas offices in both Salina and Concordia, and Concordia’s Community Resource Council.


“I mention it to someone who tells someone else, and suddenly I have boxes full of little shampoos and lotions,” Sister Christella says with a laugh. “We had to make the deliveries; the need is so great, and I didn’t have any place left to pile it.”


If you would like more information on Sister Christella’s donations, you may call her at the Motherhouse, 243-2113.



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