Tag Archive: #maapfoundation

A Call to Service: Archdiocese Interview with Deacon Don Grossnickle

In case you missed it, Our Lady of the Wayside’s Deacon Don Grossnickle was interviewed recently by the Archdiocese’s “Catholic Chicago” about his founding of the MAAPFoundation and current project of building the new Deacon Sheehan Clinic in Philomena Parish [read more...]

Success! Hand-Made Dresses Bring Joy to East Africa Village

Back on July 16, 2024, we ran a story across Our Lady of the Wayside media about OLW parishioners who raised money for, made, and donated hand-made dresses to St. Philomena Parish in Kasese, East Africa (with our Deacon Don [read more...]

OLW Making a Difference in East Africa

Our Lady of the Wayside student council and sponsor/Spanish teacher Joe Nigliazzo rallied before Summer break to do missionary work for Uganda, East Africa. Using funds raised in the “Change for Change” student council campaign, students and parents in the [read more...]

Motherhood: Inspiration

It was witnessing the nurse midwife care of malaria fever stricken impoverished mothers and babies in Uganda that prompted my “second calling” as a deacon. What was the holy fire that stirred in me so long ago that has prompted [read more...]

Deacon Don’s Uganda Update for Mission Sunday

It was 10 years ago as Our Lady of the Wayside parish helped send Deacon Don Grossnickle with a “heart on fire and feet on the move” to visit and help start a mission in Uganda East Africa. His work [read more...]

Tylenol Murder Crisis Inspires Global Leadership Activism

Kasia Janus was a young schoolgirl when told her father had been killed by poisoned Tylenol capsules. Today she is remembering the supportive care she experienced by her school and community . She is mobilizing her memories from 40 years [read more...]

Stories of Thanksgiving

Set aside some time before turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie to connect life stories and feelings of personal gratitude in this special season of Thanksgiving. The evening brings Chicago’s celebrity storyteller and songster emcee Wayne Messmer. Our distinguished host, recently [read more...]

Deacon Don Heading Back to Uganda

In 2017, 25 local Northwest suburban friends based in Our Lady of the Wayside Parish chipped in $500 to purchase and donate a laboratory microscope to St. Jude Clinic, a financially struggling medical clinic based in a small village in [read more...]

Where In The World is Deacon Don?

Advent Message from Kasese Uganda East Africa After 34 years as a full-time Deacon at Our Lady of the Wayside, another ministry has been keeping me quite busy these days. I am surprised that, at this late stage of my [read more...]

Faith in Action: Deacon Don Update

This just in from Our Lady of the Wayside’s Deacon Don Grossnickle: So glad to share news of my MAAPF friend Pavan. Pavan and I and MAAPF worked to support his research fighting deadly malaria. He needed a microscope and I [read more...]