Welcome to our new e-newsletter
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Introducing the Class of 2018 of
Maryknoll Lay Missioners
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Ted's Talk
Dear friends,
This Saturday,
Dec. 8, 2018
, 12 Maryknoll lay missioners and one Maryknoll sister will celebrate the beginning of their mission journeys in a
joint Sending Ceremony
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The Sending marks the end of a 10-week orientation program that prepared the new missioners for their cross-cultural ministries around the world. It also culminates a year of
renewal
for Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
It seems rather apropos, then, that our missioners are sent at the beginning of the Advent season. During Advent, we are invited to reopen ourselves to the renewing love of God as it is birthed again in our hearts, in our lives and in our world.
During this season of renewal and hope, we give thanks for these and all our missioners who witness to the love of our renewing God, who is always and everywhere doing something new in us and in the world.
Peace and every good!
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Ted Miles
Executive Director
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Meet our 12 new lay missioners
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We are pleased and proud to introduce to you the 12 new lay missioners who will be sent forth this Saturday, Dec. 8.
The new lay missioners of the Class of 2018 range in age from 23 to 69 and include individuals, couples, and a family of five. They are committing to three and a half years of service. All of them will depart right in early January for their respective mission sites, where they will receive extensive in-country language training and acculturation before they begin their ministry assignments.
Here are three easy ways to get to know this wonderful group, which over the past 10 weeks has become part of the MKLM family and whose presence "on the Knoll" will greatly be missed:
José Luis
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Verónica, Abby, Cortney, Sam, Kevin
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Marilyn, Joe, Jaynie, Rich, Stephen
and
Loyce
(with their children, Claire, Justin and Abigail)
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Rick's wheelbarrow library opens up new worlds
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Rick Dixon
, a Maryknoll lay missioner in El Salvador, brings books to the children who live along the railroad tracks in La Esperanza. In a recent report, he shared some of his encounters with Brandon, Julie and Leslie, a deaf reader who is learning sign language and is now teaching Rick how to “sign from the heart.”
Read the full story here.
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is Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ mission immersion program.
Come travel with us and see what life is really like in communities where Maryknoll lay missioners are living out their faith and helping to create a more just and compassionate world.
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Sign up for one of these trips next summer:
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July 12
– 28, 2019:
CHILE
, with Notre Dame-Marquette
Deadline for signups: April 12, 2019
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August 7 – 17, 2019:
BOLIVIA
Deadline for signups: May 7, 2019
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August 10 – 20, 2019:
CAMBODIA
, with
Just
Faith Ministries
Deadline for signups: May 10, 2019
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August 13 – 25, 2019:
TANZANIA,
with
Just
Faith Ministries
Deadline for signups: May 13, 2019
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Are you feeling called to global mission?
Mark your calendar to find out all the ways you can serve at one of these
upcoming webinars:
January 16, 3 pm EST –
login to
zoom.us/j/271051118
February 19, 11 am EST –
login to
zoom.us/j/237898042
To learn more about Maryknoll Lay Missioners,
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We are thankful for your prayers and support!
With your help, Maryknoll Lay Missioners sends missioners with skills and expertise to work with local partners toward more just and compassionate societies.
They minister with and help transform the lives of thousands of people in need around the world.
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