Meet Ernesti the Carpenter
A humble carpenter sets the tone in a Tanzanian retreat house. Meet Ernesti and the impact he has on visitors and lay missioners alike.
Bread of Life
From bustling basketball courts to quiet daily rhythm at Lake House of Prayer, Stephen and Loyce Veryser’s ministry in Tanzania bridges the physical and the spiritual. This fall, as they celebrate new beginnings—a completed basketball court, a renewed retreat center—they remind us that faith, like sport, flourishes through community, perseverance, and grace.
Going forth and being home
Like mission, “home” involves more than location, explains missioner Bob Cunningham in El Salvador. It is a state of being one with our surroundings and with others.
My new mission at a parish in Riwoto
After two and a half years in Kuron Peace Village, Gabe Hurrish is now working in parish ministry in South Sudan.
‘Pray for me’
How a stranger helped me encounter God in our mutual vulnerability
On losing my marbles and planting seeds
After nine years of ministry in El Salvador, Rick Dixon bids farewell as he returns to California.
Listening to the prophets among us
In this scripture reflection for July 4, 2021, Joanne Miya says we need to pay attention to the wisdom of unlikely prophets.
‘Blessed are those who have not seen but still believe’
Mary, a woman in the Kenyan slum of Kibera, can teach us how to love the forgotten and unloved in our own lives.
Jean Donovan, lay missioner martyred in 1980
40 years after her martyrdom, Jean Donovan’s example continues to inspire.
‘Giving birth to a new world’
Pope Francis calls us to recognize that all of us are brothers and sisters, and to live accordingly (October 2020 ‘Ted’s Talk’)
Let us work to be united in heart
On this World Day of Migrants and Refugees, in the midst of unprecedented upheaval, scripture calls us to compassion.
