Build Pete's Place: A Home For Healing
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Our beloved Peter Bambrick died on Saturday October 12th at age 51 due to a house fire. Peter had a decades long struggle with mental health. He was a sensitive, intuitive soul who felt everything deeply. His greatest ministry was accompanying an autistic boy for over a decade. In Peter's memory, we are building Pete's Place, a house of hospitality to provide nourishment, love, and care for people who are struggling with pain (mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual).
John Bambrick-Rust (Pete's Brother) & family run a nonprofit ministry called the White Rose Catholic Worker. 31167 Ferrier Ln, La Plata, MO 63549.
On our farm, we plan to begin construction of this building in the fall of 2025. Any donations will support this ministry. We regularly turn away requests for hospitality due to lack of housing (in January we just had to turn down 3 requests). This new house will allow us to serve more people in need and honor the memory of Pete, who had a special heart for those who suffered. White Rose Catholic Worker is a nonprofit organization but is not a 501(c)3. So donations are not tax-exempt, but will go to a good cause! We continue to grieve and also are trying to allow our grief to fuel our action for good. From the bottom of our hearts....thank you!
A little more about us: The White Rose Catholic Worker started in 2009 in Chicago as a family-style house of hospitality to those in need, and then we added an organic vegetable farm outside Chicago, IL in Monee. In 2014, we moved to Missouri to continue our ministry in a deeper land-based setting alongside an off-grid neighborhood. Annually, we host hundreds of visitors (schools, groups, families, individuals) who come to rest, heal and reconnect with nature, build community and learn about sustainability and simplicity, including farming with horses. organic gardening, cooking with and preserving whole foods, and low impact living. For more background on the White Rose and what we do: https://wwoofusa.org/en/host/21004
The Catholic Worker movement is composed of over 200 communities worldwide of many different faiths that are centered around doing the works of mercy; are committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, hospitality for the homeless and forsaken, and protesting of injustice and violence of all forms. To learn more about the movement, the best book is probably "Loaves & Fishes" by Dorothy Day (co-founder).
Organizer
John Bambrick
Organizer
La Plata, MO