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Founding of the Community of Anawim
Spirit and Charism
Ways to Help Become a long term or a short term volunteer with the Community of Anawim, living in community and sharing in the prayer life and ministries. Volunteers experience what it is like to live in Christian Community and be of service to those in need. This experience is also beneficial to those contemplating answering the call to a religious vocation. Volunteers in the local community also assist in all of Community’s ministries.
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The Community of Anawim, a Catholic religious community established in 1982, grew out the Young People Who Care, Inc. mission that was established in 1976 by Sr. Therese Dush, a Sister of Mercy of the Erie Diocese. (For more information about Young People Who Care, Inc. go to 
Members of the community are women and men committed to a life of personal and communal prayer who make private vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. They live a communal life of prayer, seeking to embrace the spirit and charism of the Beatitudes. God is both the source and the goal of the Community of Anawim. God’s grace gives value to all the Community’s activities. Prayer, hospitality, simplicity, and service of the poor done in the Spirit of the Beatitudes is at the very foundation of the Community of Anawim. 