Our God Is a God of Surprise!
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016 Web Exclusive
Our God is unpredictable in the best ways. A year ago I was an engineer for a logistics company in Dallas. My life could not have been more normal – salaried employee, paying off student loans, spending time with friends, etc. I thought I had it all and life was just going to get better from there. I was right...
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May 2016
Freedom to Share the Love of Christ
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016 Web Exclusive
New post, new team, new culture, new people that the Lord has put into my life to love. How free and wonderful is His love to us! Being a third year missionary and spending the past two years where the Gospel message was difficult to convey to the people, I am in awe of the amazing new opportunities to share...
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May 2016
Jesus, I Trust in You: Part 3
Posted by Lindsey Romero /
Our Blog, Philippines - Malaybalay
The house is finished! On Mother’s Day we drove to Nanay Ludi’s house for our weekly visit, our gift of a litson manok (a rotisserie chicken, her favorite) in hand. We arrived to find a very happy couple inside a very cozy, newly completed home!
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May 2016
Kids Ministry in the Philippines
Posted by Savannah Blanco /
Our Blog, Philippines - Malaybalay
I believe one can learn the most about the Kingdom of Heaven from children, and this fact has only been made more and more clear to me in my missionary life. It is because I see Jesus so much in children, that I have officially decided to run a kids ministry. Every Thursday night, I do my best to instill…
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May 2016
To Write of Home
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016
The first full week we were in Taiwan I had several meltdowns. It was freezing, with no heat in the buildings, we didn’t know where we would be living for the year, didn’t know the language or where anything was, and we didn’t even know each other as team members. I felt as if I were drowning in “unknowns.” It...
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May 2016
From Brillion to Nuevo Chimbote
Posted by Katie Schmidt /
SERVE, Spring 2016
After Taylor found the lost community of Nuevo Chimbote last year, we spent two days a week catechizing and teaching the people. Nineteen children received their Sacraments last October, and we will be starting Sacrament preparation for the adults after Easter. Two couples have already asked to have their marriages blessed in the Church! Clearly, the people of Nuevo Chimbote...
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May 2016
Are You Driving By Jesus On Your Way Home?
Posted by Sarah Granger /
SERVE, Spring 2016
Since I have been out of full time foreign missions, I miss having daily encounters with Jesus in the poor, and the chance to evangelize those hungry for the Gospel. Even though I ache to meet Jesus more, I almost passed up a beautiful opportunity in my own backyard. About two years ago, we moved a house out to Big...
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May 2016
A Follower in Asia
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016
As I sped along on my bike through the busy highways of this great Asian city, I felt a certain excitement for my first private language lesson. I had been studying this crazy language for five months but now God was blessing me with the opportunity to dive into some one-on-one instruction. My plan was to spend three hours per...
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May 2016
Jericho March 2016: Life is Beautiful
Posted by Lindsey Romero /
SERVE, Spring 2016
A couple of years ago we caught the notion that praying, singing, and walking in circles around a village could make walls of sin and oppression come crashing down; that a miracle from the Old Testament could happen in modern-day Isla Bonita and prayer and faith could free men and their families from the evils of alcohol addiction. God was...
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May 2016
Reymark
Posted by Melissa Seilhan /
SERVE, Spring 2016
Shortly after moving to our new post in Sagay on Camiguin Island in July, we began to question why God had moved us from Malaybalay City to Sagay. We missed our big blue house, the hot showers, the cool air of Bukidnon, and all the little conveniences of living in a city. Life in Malaybalay was tough compared to living...
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May 2016
The Day I Was Embarrassed of My Faith
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016
The city where I serve is an incredible place. Working with the MCs and falling in love with the place and the people that stole a great saint’s heart has been a blissfully surreal experience. We got to volunteer with her sisters in the homes that she founded, literally walking in her footsteps. One morning in particular, we had just...
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May 2016
Tinom’s Joy
Posted by Andrea Quinn /
SERVE, Spring 2016
Last week I went to visit my elderly godson, Tinom. Tinom is blind and unable to walk. He spends his days lying on a mat in a dark room. Just seeing his living conditions alone is enough to break your heart. Although Tinom was raised Catholic, he was never baptized. Shortly after we met him we were able to bring...
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May 2016
Someone Must Tell Them!
Posted by FMC Missionary /
SERVE, Spring 2016
The words of the Gospel have power! Every day FMC’s Taiwan team heads off to school. As is the case for most foreign missionaries, we stand out and people are often eager to meet us. The conversation very quickly comes to why we are here: to bring the GOOD NEWS to all we meet! Being on a university campus in...
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May 2016
Divine Mercy
Posted by The Martin Family /
Mexico - General Cepeda, Our Blog
Two years ago our Mexico team started a project building a little chapel in General Cepeda for the people that live too far to walk to Mass. Someone had donated a plot of land to the Church, and Father wanted to see a chapel built there, but there were no funds. So, when some friends came to visit and heard…
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May 2016
10 Fun New Experiences in Peru!
Posted by Angelica Hanon /
Our Blog, Peru Mission
1. We live in an abandoned bakery. It is a very interesting set up. We have one big room where we all sleep which was used to store bread. It’s awesome, we live in a room that is made to be fresh and cool!! The sinks in the bathrooms opened with your foot so you would not contaminate anything, which…
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May 2016
