Sister Eleanor has taught in elementary schools and at Benedictine College.  She has served as a Director of Religious Education in rural parishes of Northwest Missouri and Southwest Iowa, as a consultant for adult religious education for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, as director of the Institute for Religious Studies, a partnership of the archdiocese and   Benedictine College, and as director of Sophia Center.  Most of her ministry has focused on rural parishes, serving on the Board of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and writing a catechetical series for families in rural parishes.