Amidst her busy schedule of working at smaller parishes throughout western Missouri, Sister Anita Helgenberger finds her calling caring for three formerly homeless women living in St. Mary’s House for Mothers. The three women, Nini Mitchell, Jesse Hubbard and Michalia Willams, and Williams’ two-month-old son Joshua have formed a found family with Sr. Anita in the middle as their “spiritual mother.”

Sr. Anita said it’s not her calling to have kids “but I can love them very good and spoil them.”

Soon there will be more kids to spoil as their family expands with Mitchell and Hubbard’s babies due later this year.