Plymouth

The sisters purchased a bankrupt hotel in Fort Wayne, which they turned into a hospital and vowed would serve anyone in the community who needed medical care.

The Handmaids established their motherhouse near Plymouth, Indiana, and have continued to draw Handmaids from Germany to serve immigrants in the Midwest and around the world.

Their ministry expanded to include St. Joseph Hospital, which the sisters owned in Fort Wayne, an orphanage in Chicago, schools, nursing programs, and other work that continues today.

As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, Catholic dioceses across the U.S. saw the need for an organization to serve all needy people, the immigrant and the native-born.

Martin achieved the rank of captain in the United States Air Force, serving as a navigator and navigator instructor on active duty, as well as a judge advocate in the reserve.

His legal career spanned 40 years, during which time he tried cases ranging from small justice of the peace courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He began the practice of law as an associate with the law firm Stevens & Wampler in Plymouth, Indiana.

He later moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana to serve as a staff attorney for North American Van Lines and later as executive vice president and general counsel.

Today we are in Plymouth, Indiana at Homestead Dairy, where I'm sitting down in the calf barn with Jill Houyen, the former vegetarian from New Jersey who married into a dairy family and has since become the family's chief storyteller, giving tours, running the books, and even opening a restaurant and meat market built around the farm's owned beef.

We're talking about the power of key messaging, converting skeptics, and the hug with a stranger that somehow turned into owning a local burger joint.

All this and more here today

So I get to now meet a ton of University of Notre Dame students who have never been on a farm.

And they see that full circle of where their food's going and how it's making electricity.

We power a thousand houses an hour in Plymouth.

So the south side of Plymouth is powered by us.

And a lot of people in our town don't know that.