Missioners
Sister Mary Lou Andrews
 | A missioner without borders, Sister Mary Lou Andrews has served in the Marshall Islands, Tanzania, Nicaragua and the United States. |
Hailing from Utica, New York, Sister Mary Lou came to Maryknoll in 1949, after receiving her RN. In her first mission assignment in 1952 to Likiep, Marshall Islands, she was the only medical person on the island where she set up a maternity clinic.
From a dot in the Pacific she continued sharing her nursing skills in Bujangija, Tanzania in a larger maternity clinic with African nurses, delivering eighty to one hundred babies a month. They also covered six safari clinics within a fifty mile radius giving pre-natal and well baby care.
Her administrative and pastoral gifts were tapped as Coordinator of the Senior Maryknoll Sisters region for eight years, continuing her safari style in the U.S. keeping in touch with all the Sisters.
She was engaged in family and parish ministry in St. Thomas Parish in New Hartford, NY while caring for her elderly parents.
Following this she studied Spanish and worked for ten years in Somotillo, Nicaragua in parish ministry accompanying the people in their ministries.
Presently Sister Mary Lou is retired at Maryknoll, NY continuing mission through prayer
ministry and writing to prisoners.
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