Who's Who in Our Community

Bienvenidos! Welcome back, it has been a while as we have been in a period of transition in our community. But we are finally whole and ready to begin the second half of our year with renewed energy and zeal. We have had several members leave our community to return home over the last few months and weeks. Andy Kadlec returned home to North Dakota several weeks ago, he is in a period of discernment as to where the Lord is calling Him next, with the likelihood of returning to school soon. His "chill" is greatly missed.Erika Espinal a local Honduran woman who joined our community for a few months during her vacation has returned to school and returned to live with her family. Lorena Ventura who has been living with the Missioners for the past year has entered the university with the hopes of studying medicine and has returned to her family as well. However we are blessed to have them both still serving the Missioners by continuing to lead Rosas de Maria our formation class for 11-15 yr old girls.

Finally, Brad Fassbender who arrived in Honduras this past summer departed for the states by way of Mexico and the Virgen Guadalupe on Tuesday. During his visit home over Christmas he visited the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming. He returned to Honduras after having a very good experience with them. The Carmelites invited to him to join as early as the end of March. After several weeks of intense discernment he accepted there offer and will join them very soon. Though we are sad to see him go sooner than expected we know he will continue to be an intense prayer warrior for us and we are very excited for him.

We are also welcoming several new members into our community. These new Missioners, pictured throughout the blog are Rudy Sorto Benitez, Chloe Fawcett, Mark Fein, Daniel Galvez Montes, Juan Carlos Rodriguez. Rudy is 19 yrs old from Cabanas, Honduras, he is great with people and hopes to be here at least a year. Chloe is 18 yrs old and is from Wales in the United Kingdom and she is beautifully sweet, plays piano and will be with us until the summer. Mark is 29 from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has committed indefinately to Honduras and is currently studying Spanish in Guatemala and will join us in Comayagua soon. Daniel is from Siguatepeque, Honduras, is 18 and is nearly bi-lingual which is an awesome added benefit to our community. And Juan Carlos hails from El Salvador, he has been serving in Florida, Honduras with Father Max a young priest we work with often and has come now to serve with us here, he is passionate and has already brought new life and new visions to our community.