The Courage to Become a Missionary
By: Amber Perron I consider myself the least likely candidate for missions in the whole world. I can’t stand trying new foods, I’m super shy, I am very fearful, and I don’t like doing anything daring, adventurous, or different. So why on earth am I a missionary? What gives me the courage to take on a life so contrary to…
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Jul 2013
Tough Guy
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Ramon Leano I used to think I was the toughest guy alive. I wasn’t scared of anything. Drinking with my friends, finding trouble, and getting chased by the police was my hobby. I always chose my friends over my family. If I didn’t go home at night, my wife would go looking for me at the police station. Everything...
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Jul 2013
My 15-Minute Life-Changing Encounter with 115 Year Old Juanita
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Mission Trips, Our Blog
I went on my first mission trip with Family Missions Company in January of 2009 to General Cepeda, MX. I was excited about the opportunity to serve, the chance to go to another country, and to encounter Jesus in a new way. I knew God was going to work in my life and change me but I did not expect...
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Jul 2013
More to Service: A Challenge to You
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Odilio Alvarez A few years ago, I was starting to fall in love with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Maybe it was the daily Masses that we started to attend as a family or the glorious day of my Confirmation. Either way it was by God’s grace that I was changing. I am not used to change. I like...
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Jul 2013
How Missions Made Me a Better Man
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By George Holland So there I was, living comfortably in the house we talked about having our grandchildren visit. My business was at the point where I could look out the next few years and see it really blossoming. We had been married 15 years, had seven children, a great faith community, etc. I guess I felt like I…
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Jul 2013
How The Hobbit Called Me to Be a Man
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
This March, I sat down with my family to watch the movie The Hobbit. I had already seen it twice before, so I knew what to expect. But God, who is always doing something new, had something else in mind, something much more profound than “what’s expected”. Just a little bit of background is needed to understand the significance of...
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Jul 2013
Jesus is The Man
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Luis Blanco Men, I am here to propose to you a radical and manly life. Missions, giving your life up for the sake of others, is the manliest life there is. In missions I learned many things: most importantly, how to be a true man. Missions gives you the tools to become a true man and then it requires...
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Jul 2013
Man on a Mission!
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By Sammy Romero Missions has completely transformed my life! The changes I’ve experienced are so incredible, it’s hard to even imagine my life before. All my life I struggled with anxiety. For 26 years I worried and stressed over everything, to the point where I would sometimes get physically sick. I was anxious about the little things in my daily...
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Jul 2013
Blessed Beyond Belief
These past few weeks have flown by. It seems like just yesterday we were packing up our house to move out to Big Woods. But it’s actually been almost three weeks since we left behind our old life and began our new life. Yet, at times it seems as though we’ve lived out here all our lives.From the moment I…
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Jul 2013
‘Man is truly himself when his body and soul are intimately united.’
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Ryan Lawless Oftentimes, it is confusing for us men to understand what our true calling is in this life. Are we called to marriage, priesthood, single life? Are we called to go to a university or continue working after high school? The world lies to us men. It preys on men’s bodily weaknesses. It tells us that to be...
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Jul 2013
Calling All Men, Answer Your Call!
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Matthew Holland I want to talk a little bit about how missions has made me, and continues to make me into the man that I am today! First off when I entered the formation that every missionary goes through, it was very tough for me and it was a real challenge! It was an intense time, but a time...
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Jul 2013
Men of God: Become More than a “Good” Person
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
Since becoming a father, my biggest fear has been that my children will fall away from God and the Church. I know that the best way to teach is by example. Jesus tells us that in John 5:19, when He says, “Amen, Amen I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees...
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Jul 2013
David Quinn’s Testimony of Grace
Posted by Jonathan Weiss /
Man Enough?, Our Blog
(Taken from an email to Director by Intake 2013 Missionary David Quinn) Thanks you for your prayers and the verse from the Bible. You're right ...Sirach 2 was a perfect message for me. I also heard it on the radio later that night after I had done some therapeutic mopping :-) "Kiss your crosses often" (-St. Ignatius I believe). Looking...
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Jul 2013
Manvitation
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Man Enough?, Our Blog
By Kevin Granger “God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully prepared for the sowing of the Gospel. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes.No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim...
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Jul 2013
