For the past 24 years, the Catherine McAuley Center has grown with our community to provide much needed services to our neighbors and help them learn the skills necessary to build a better future for themselves and their families.

Just a few short months after the Center opened in 1989, Carol Sudmeier wrote an article for the Gazette introducing the Catherine McAuley Center and retelling the story of the mustard seed. She wrote, “Today in Cedar Rapids, ‘The Story of the Mustard Seed’ is being retold. It is the story of how a small seed planted in the right place and with the right care and circumstances has poked its way through the ground and stretches out its arms.”

Click the image to read the PDF version of Carol Sudmeier’s article.