Ralph Modica is the President of GNM's board of directors and keeps on top of all the legal paperwork in running a non-profit organization. Occasionally, he takes vacation from his job in the corporate world to travel to speaking engagements. A lively instructor, his specialty is how to be a missionary in the workplace by imitating Christ even in the most stressful environments. A cancer survivor and the father of young adults, he also helps people (men especially) find God in the challenges of illness and parenting.

Bob Metivier is a board member who specializes in parish team development and the call to rebuild the Church through the uniting of its members using the techniques of team management, conflict resolution, and effective leadership styles. He is Music Director and the Director of Parish Life in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He has a Contemporary Catholic music ministry (see www.psalms.ws) to help people find an active and positive relationship with God and with each other within their faith community. 

Fiona Pimentel translates the Daily Blessings into Spanish. This mother of four has been a Catholic all her life, starting her adult involvement in the Church with Youth 2000. She is an ardent supporter of Missionaries of the Poor. She is a qualified translator in Spanish and French, and she has worked as a journalist. She lives by the words of a Fr. Ho Lung song: "Take my labors, though imperfect, they are Yours". She says, "I received so much help with my life from the daily Good News Reflections, and I want to get involved in helping others in the same way. Fiona lives in the Cayman Islands.

Adriana Banda translates the daily Good News Reflections into Spanish. She had been a subscriber of the reflections for four years when we needed a new translator and she volunteered to help. She was an answer to our prayers, and the opportunity to join the Good News Ministries team was an answer to her prayers; she was asking God for a way to give back to the ministry that had given her so much. In 2002, she had searched the internet for a guide on how to pray the Rosary and came across the GNM daily reflections, little realizing that later become part of this ministry. She lives in Arlington, Texas.

Stacy Trasancos is our Online Community Administrator. She servers as moderator of the e-groups Parents Who Pray and the Emmaus Journey. She also helps Cookie (see below) make and coordinate our Holy Family Rosary Ministry. She joined the team initially because she wanted to bring the gift of prayer to other parents. The mother of six and grandmother of one, she came to Good News Ministries during a 2 1/2-year process of RCIA, when she and her husband started using the daily reflections together; this remains the most unifying aspect of their relationship with each other and with God. In her ministry at GNM, she prays every day for the Lord to use her to bring others closer to Heaven. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.
 

Priests - We collaborate with a number of priests. Father Gary Dowsey, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunedin, Florida, is our chaplain. We also have close associations with Mons. Joseph Kimu of the Diocese of Blantyre in Malawi, Central Africa, who is currently studying for a doctorate in Rome, with Bishop Vincent Kympat of Jowai, India, and with Father Frank DeSiano, CSP, who is director of the Paulist Associates to which Terry and Ralph belong.

Many other priests are connected to us in less formal ways; read comments from some of them.

Help Wanted
Good News Ministries is always open to the Holy Spirit-guided ideas of those who want to get involved as a team member.