Sister Idelle Badt, a social worker, is a welcoming presence at Stepping Stone Ministries in Bismarck, North Dakota. She is a member of Annunciation Monastery.
Sister Idelle is pictured here with Eagle Scout, Ethan Konieczka, who designed and built locked bedside stands so Stepping Stone residents would have a secure place to store their belongings.
Good News about Stepping Stone Ministries
Stepping Stone Ministries was featured on June 17, 2026 in the Global Sisters Report online. Stepping Stones provides a safe environment with respite care for homeless persons who have been discharged from area hospitals but who are too ill to recover on the streets.To read the article and learn more about this innovative ministry, click below:
Care of the sick must rank above and before all else, so that they may truly be served as Christ, for he said: I was sick and you visited me (Matt 25:36), and, What you did for one of these least brothers and sisters, you did for me (Matt 25:40).
RB 36:1-3
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