Lisa Acosta and Family
Posted by Sara Vasile /
Lisa Acosta and Family In March 2019, the Acosta family attended a "Come and See" with Family Missions Company, where they learned that all Christians are called to be missionaries by their baptism. After being forever changed by the missionaries they met, their stories, and testimonies, and getting a glimpse of the joyful simplicity of missionary life, the Acostas embarked...
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Feb 2024
Logan & Macelia Detraz
Posted by Cate Broadbent /
Logan & Macelia Detraz Logan was born and raised in Cow Island, Louisiana. He met his wife, Macelia, at a local grocery store, and together they have 4 beautiful children. In January of 2022, Macelia began working at Family Missions Company as Logan still pursued his career of working offshore. On his days off Logan enjoyed spending time helping in...
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May 2024
Luciana Diaz
Posted by Ryan Lawless /
Luciana Diaz Luciana grew up in Kennesaw, Georgia, where her childhood was imprinted with her family's rich and social Latin American culture and the Catholic faith. From middle through high school, she would join her mother in evangelizing and praying at abortion clinics, and attended several mission trips, one being with FMC to serve the homeless in New Orleans. These...
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Jun 2023
Luigi Di Paolo
Posted by Ryan Lawless /
Luigi Di Paolo Born into a family of Award Winning Ice Cream makers, Luigi was set to take on the family business, but the Lord had other plans.  Years prior, the Lord had been laying down strong foundations with Luigi through young adult Catholic groups, retreats and charismatic events. So when it came to make a decision about the business, grounded...
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Aug 2019
Madeleine Hackmann
Posted by Sara Vasile /
Madeleine Hackmann Madeleine was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of four, with three older brothers. She grew up in a Protestant and Catholic household and chose to be confirmed Catholic when she was 13 years old. At a young age, she lived in the Middle East for three and a half years. This allowed her to experience different...
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May 2023
Madelyn Weaver
Posted by Ryan Lawless /
Madelyn Weaver Madelyn grew up as the oldest of seven children in a Catholic family in the Augusta, Georgia area. From a young age, God gave Madelyn an awareness of His loving presence and care for her, and an attraction to missionary life. After finishing high school and attending college for a year, Madelyn decided to take a semester off...
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Apr 2024
Marcos & Jessica Cisneros
Posted by Ryan Lawless /
Marcos & Jessica Cisneros Joaquin Miguel, Miriam Salomé, Montserrat Isabel, and Juan Pablo In 2010 Marcos, while working in California, experienced a deep conversion to follow Christ more closely with his life. Throughout his conversion and through prayer he felt a call and discerned to serve as a Foreign Catholic Missionary. After discerning and accepting that call, he spent 3...
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Oct 2021
Mary Clare
Posted by Jonathan Weiss /
Mary Clare Mary Clare first felt the desire to serve in foreign missions when, as a child, she read a letter detailing her cousin’s mission experience in Central America. As the Lord continued to pursue her heart and as she grew in faith and knowledge of Him, this desire continued to grow almost undetected in her heart. In college, she finally...
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Aug 2015
Matt & Katie Glafcke
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Matt & Katie Glafcke Glafcke is a tricky last name. It is often mangled and mispronounced. But as long as you remember Pop Pop Tom’s motto – Laughter is the key to happiness – you’ll be set. The correct way to say our family name: G + laugh + key We Glafckes are nine: Matt, Katie, Josephine, Coryn, Mallory, Gloria,...
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Jul 2018
Matt & Mallory Doktor
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Matt & Mallory Doktor Matt (and the girls) and Mallory met at Family Missions Company in 2022. Matt and his three daughters, Sadie, Sophie, and Eva, went through Intake in 2019 and served in Taiwan for two and half years. The girls attended the local school and became fluent in Chinese, while Matt studied and served the local community. Sadly,...
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Apr 2019
Michael & Veronica Henderson
Posted by Jonathan Weiss /
Michael & Veronica Henderson In 2015, Michael and Veronica and their, at the time, six children, now ten children—Michael Jr., Mariam, Kevin, Thomas, Lydia, Sarah, Bernadette, Catherine, Evelyn, and David—answered God’s call to sell their house and their belongings and leave the familiarity of home and family behind to follow the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. Their first mission post...
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Jun 2015
Miguel & Angela Alvarado Petrongelli
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Miguel & Angela Alvarado Petrongelli Angela is from Jacksonville, North Carolina and joined Family Missions Company in the fall of 2017 shortly after she graduated from NC State University with a Bachelors of Social Work in 2016. Her call to mission was led by the Lord as she asked Him what He wanted for her life and He led her...
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Nov 2019
Miguel Garcia
Posted by Ryan Lawless /
Miguel Garcia Born in San Francisco, California, as the second of two sons, Miguel was raised in Texas by two loving parents, though their lives took different paths through divorce. Growing up between two cities came with its challenges, but even then, God was near—planting seeds of faith through the quiet witness of his grandmothers, whose deep devotion to Mary...
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Jul 2025
Nathaniel & Kelli
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Nathaniel & Kelli Both having hearts called to evangelistic efforts in Asia, Nathaniel and Kelli met through FMC and got to know each other in India. Married in 2021, they have dedicated their lives since then to home, growing more little missionaries and reaching the East Asian diaspora with the Good News! They couldn’t be more grateful to the Lord...
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Jun 2017
Nick & Millie Hennemann
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Nick & Millie Hennemann Nick and Millie were living in Oregon when they felt the Lord call them to serve as foreign missionaries. They joined Family Missions Company and were commissioned as foreign missionaries with their children in 2019. Their first assignment was in northern Costa Rica, where they served poor rural communities and also had their sixth child. Having...
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Jul 2018
Pablo & Yalile Rigioni // Missionary Associates
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
Pablo & Yalile Rigioni Yalile Esquivel and Pablo Rigioni first met in the chorus of their little town Florencia, San Carlos, Costa Rica, 37 years ago. She was 16 and he was 21. Yalile was raised in a country home and Pablo in the capital city. They were both educated in good values and Catholic basics, but suffered the consequences...
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Jul 2018
PLB
Posted by Matthew Spizale /
PLB Phillip and Lacy have been married for over 15 years and have eight beautiful children: William, Annie, Miriam, Norah, Lily, Andrew, Ruthie, and Agnes. They have both followed Jesus for most of their adult lives, but felt Him calling them into something deeper. After taking their family on a short-term mission trip to Mexico, they began to understand that...
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Jul 2020
RMED
Posted by Jonathan Weiss /
Rachel Rachel was born in Canada and raised in Texas. She is the middle child of three siblings. Before joining FMC, she taught and studied ancient literature at a university in the Midwest. Rachel grew up surrounded by people talking about the Great Commission and hoped one day to go into the mission field herself. God confirmed this call on...
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Jun 2015
