Thank You!

Hello dear Friends, Family, Sponsors, and Prayer Warriors!

Please forgive me for not having emailed earlier! I am here in Sarasota, FL, staying with my Mom before leaving for Honduras. I've officially already started Mission, as some of my co-Missioners are already at the site in language school. I'm getting ready to go to a two-week training session with a group called "NET Ministries" in St. Paul, Minnesota. This is a small change in the original plan...I am not actually committed to NET Ministries (a US organization which travels the country leading retreats for youth) but thanks to their generosity and connection with the Missioners of Christ, I'll be joining them (along with one other co-Missioner) for the beginning of their training to meet them, pray with them, and to gain some insight from their program in hopes of using it as I make my way South. That begins on August 23rd!

I'm getting a little ahead of myself though. Let me explain the blog a bit. I'm not sure how frequently I'll be able to get online, and it probably won't be often. Though impersonal, I figured this would be the best way to get in touch with you all and to keep you updated and informed, hopefully with pictures when available, and especially for prayer requests and such. I'll hopefully be able to email you when it is updated, but check back every so often whether or not you receive an email.

You may have noticed the blog is called "To the Depths". I just graduated from Boston College, which is affectionately called "the Heights". Providentially, the English translation of Honduras is "the Depths". So I'll be going from the Heights to the Depths! And as a favorite holy man always rallied during his mountain climbs "to the Heights!" (Bl. Pierre Giorgio Frassatti), I think a new motto for me will be "to the Depths!" "Deep is calling on deep" and I want to answer that call. I feel unprepared, and yet , this seems okay...sometimes we just have to jump in and trust God completely.

I am SO grateful for all of your support. Know of my prayers for all of you and please hold the whole Mission and me in your prayers. Please email to tell me if you have any specific prayer requests.

How blessed I am to have you all in my life!

God bless you as you too prepare for the newness of Fall and whatever that brings!

In Him,
MJ