Missions: What’s All the Fuss About?
By Erik Martin | General Cepeda, Mexico Have you ever heard a missionary say, “Missions is the greatest life!”? I know I have, a few times. I may even be guilty of saying it a time or two. But why, you say, I don’t get it. What’s the big fuss? What could be so great about leaving the comforts of…
Jericho Project Update: General Cepeda, Mexico
By Erik Martin Just wanted to quickly share with you all how your prayers that you poured out during our Jericho Project are continuing to bear fruit. This weekend 13 men from General Cepeda are attending the School of the Cross. It’s a powerful retreat here for men only. Most of the men here who are very active in their…
A Missionary Family: In Memory of Donald Romero
{In Loving Memory of Donald Romero – Sept. 24, 1946 – Sept. 18th, 2014} My wife Cheryl and I are the parents of FMC missionary Samuel Romero. He and his wife Lindsey and their three children joined FMC in 2011. We met the Summers family (founders of FMC) about twenty-five years ago here in Abbeville, LA when they were home…
Dive into God’s Word!
By David Quinn I wanted to write some about how my life has been changed ever since I have been a missionary and since I have really been diving into God’s word every day. The glory story for me this week is that I finished reading the entire bible! I have tried on more than one occasion since high school to…
Mission Impossible?
By Teresa Kiehl To those of you who feel like God is not calling and could not be calling you to missions, I’ve got a few things I would like to say. Perhaps in your life you already do all the things that you should be doing. You go to church, your family prays together before bed-time, and you may even…
Jesus Gives Courage: Be Not Afraid!
By Luis This week I had the blessing of coming back to General Cepeda, Mexico. This place brings me make to my first year of missions. There is something special about this place. During my first year I was really exited to serve here. I wanted to share the good news with everyone I saw. I also really like the…
Jericho Project: Let the Walls Come Down
During this Lenten season Family Missions Company invites you to join our missionaries in Mexico in fasting and praying for the men of General Cepeda. We have long had a presence in this region of Mexico and many of you reading this have been to General Cepeda and were greatly blessed by your time there. The Problem: For years our…
Nebraska Family Become Missionaries: Repost from Lincoln Diocese
Inconvenienced for the Gospel
By Bridget Martin (originally posted on their blog, Martin Family on Mission) Mission life is not convenient. Carrying the Good News of Jesus is not convenient. Reaching the ends of the earth with the Gospel is certainly not convenient. While reading about the life of Saint Paul during one of our Acts of the Apostles Bible studies recently, Mr. Frank…
Visiting Villages with Mexican Friends
By Moses Aaron Kiehl, 10 yr. old Catholic Missionary Every Thursday here in Mexico, we go to little villages here called Ranchos or Ejidos. Recently, about 1 month ago, we started taking families and people of General Cepeda to these Ranchos. When we go, we usually have at least 18 people in our van. On the way to these ranchos,…
