Religious communities are challenged to provide non-institutional communal settings offering meaningful options for Religious in later life.

Harvest Grove, begun in September, 2002, is a new inter-community alternative for Women Religious in their later years.

This model provides opportunities for small community, shared charisms of different religious communities, deepening spirituality, continuing ministry. The Sisters presently living in Harvest Grove are involved in part-time ministries - education, spirituality, pastoral care, medical claims processing.