Sister Stories Sister Stories Ministering in a Changing Community Head west out of Springfield, Minnesota past the wind turbines of Buffalo Ridge, and on toward the sweeping prairies of South Dakota. Out here land and sky run smack into eachother.
Corn stands proud and sunflowers turn hopeful faces east.
Ask anyone around here and they ll tell you, This is God s country. Polo is a town of 30 with a church, school and a few houses. If it wouldn t be for the church, you d miss us, laughs Sister Mary Myles Schwann. Sister Mary Myles is Pastoral Administrator for the clustered parishes of St. Liborius and St. Joseph in Orient, nine miles due north. She works with two separate priests and as many different lay ministers.