Sister Eileen Schieber moved to Toledo, Ohio in 1987 to serve as Vicar for Religious within the city’s Catholic Dioceses. A few months into her service, she attended a prayer service for persons with AIDS and was approached by a young gay man, Ron and his mother, who asked Eileen to come to a meeting for a group of volunteers wanting to provide buddy services for those living with HIV/AIDS. When Sister Eileen asked them, “why”, Ron and his mother told her that her position within the city’s religious community would provide their organization N.O.V.A. (No One’s Victory Alone) with the kind of credibility needed to gain visibility and support across the region’s urban and rural communities. After attending the meeting, Sister Eileen soon became a N.O.V.A. buddy and ultimately accepted a full time position as its executive director. Working mostly with gay men and their families, as well as other community organizers, Sister Eileen established “David’s House Compassion, LLC” (David’s House), the area’s only housing shelter and resource center for persons with HIV/AIDS. Situated in an abandoned Catholic rectory within a red-lined district of Toledo,  “David’s House” was a beacon of hope for rust belt residents during a time when an HIV diagnosis was most certainly a death sentence and a devastating stigma. Sister Eileen’s pastoral approach to AIDS ministry can now be seen as kind of radical work, upsetting the theological approaches to the crisis which dominate the cultural narratives about the epidemic both historically and currently.