Welcome Home, Maria!
September 1, 2022
As I am writing this, I have been home for just over 24 hours, and I can’t believe it yet...
As I am writing this, I have been home for just over 24 hours, and I can’t believe it yet...
Often there is a temptation to think about where I am getting to, to think the mission is when I finish walking, at the scheduled place and time, at church or the home of a friend or Mbeobeos (the city dump – more on that soon). But the beauty of this mission is that I...
Going into my mission, I was a little nervous because of how little I had to offer - my clumsy French, my inexperience, my total naivete and ignorance of the culture and what this mission would look like. But it is truly only within our emptiness that we can be filled...
As Maria’s parents, we were so excited when Maria first told us that she felt called to go on a mission to Senegal, Africa through Consolatio. This was primarily because we both felt that their ministry of presence would be the perfect ministry for her...