Thanksgiving Alumni Missionary Trip A Huge Success!
FMC’s first annual Alumni Mission Trip to General Cepeda was a huge success! With almost 60 missionaries participating, God did wonderful things during our time there. FMC’s Intake class of 2012 was wrapping up three weeks at the mission house when the rest of the group – mostly FMC Alumni missionaries and their families – arrived to spend Thanksgiving week serving…
Living Water: Finding Jesus at the Empty Well
By Erika Olson “We don’t have any water. The well broke and now we don’t even have any water to drink.” I stood in the chapel at Luz y Colón, a small desert community in the municipality of General Cepeda, Coahuila, Mexico. We were on a three-week mission with our missionaries in Intake (formation period). It was so good to…
The Greater Good: Families in Mission
I Want to Die Pointing
By JS I want to die pointing. I had this basic realization the other day: when death finds me, I want it to find me pointing to JESUS! There are so many distractions in our lives, and I am not just talking about sinful, evil things; I am talking about all the things we busy ourselves with, and make priorities,…
An FMC Blog Featured Nationally
FMC’s Blog as really been gaining momentum. Joseph Summer’s blog on God is Calling Families into Missions was featured as one of Tito Edwards “the Best in Catholic Blogging” on the National Catholic Register’s Website this past weekend. We are so honored to have been featured by the NCR and blessed that many Catholics are beginning to take seriously the call…
Calling College Students to Missions
Sacrament Sweepstakes
By Rebekah Lilllis We’ve been teaching our students about the Sacraments—“visible signs of invisible grace,” and last Monday I had the opportunity to witness these treasures of the Church first-hand. Fr. Joe invited me to come for a ‘sickbed wedding’ up in the mountains. The couple had been civilly married for fifteen years, and now desired the blessing of the Church. …
Everyday Holiness
Help us Build Our School!
Two of our lovely missionaries serving in Sagay, on the Island of Camiguin in the Philippines, Susanna and Rebekah have begun a special campaign to connect those who have less, with those with more who might help them better their life, and their school. Holy Rosary Catholic High School, where the our missionaries have taught for many years, is in need of some…
And so begins the Year of Faith!
“Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of LOVE received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and JOY! – Pope Benedict XVI in his “Letter on the Year of Faith” The YEAR of FAITH has begun and FMC would like to share with you an episode of the Missionary Family Podcast speaking about this special…
