Foreign Missionary

Does your heart burn to share the love of Jesus with the poor and the lost? Is God calling you to a more radical lifestyle, giving up the comforts of home and materialism in exchange for storing up eternal glory in heaven? Do you desire to join a missionary community of fervent, like-hearted disciples? Our full time foreign missionary opportunity may be for you!

Who is Family Missions Company?

Family Missions Company is a lay Catholic charismatic community - both families and singles - that forms, sends, and sustains missionaries all over the world. We are the largest lay Catholic foreign missionary sending community in the US and have sent over 1,000 missionaries to 27 countries since 1997. Rooted in a daily and intimate relationship with the Lord through prayer and the sacraments, we seek to live with and make real friendships with the poor to incarnate Christ's love for them.

Want to Learn More?

We invite you to learn more about this life-changing calling on our website and please reach out to start a conversation today.

Website
https://www.familymissionscompany.com/become-a-missionary/

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

All FMC missionaries always strive for personal holiness and seek to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ: to preach the Gospel, serve the poor, and make disciples of those we encounter.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

-Complete Intake, FMC's annual new missionary formation, which runs from September to March at Big Woods Mission, just south of Abbeville, LA.
-Seek personal holiness each day by encountering God in prayer, scripture, community, service, and the sacraments.
-Commit to a minimum of 30 minutes of personal prayer each day.
-Develop a missionary heart by giving thanks in all things (1 Thess. 5:18), respecting the new cultures into which you are sent, eating what is set before you, going the extra mile, being discipled by leadership, and putting your hands to the plow without looking back. (Luke 9:62)
-All missionaries should maintain a commitment to ongoing spiritual formation and study. We recommend all missionaries read the Acts of the Apostles, Mission of the Redeemer by Pope St. John Paul II, as well as "Go! You are Sent!" and "Our Family's Book of Acts," both written by FMC's co-founder, Genie Summers.
-Commit to learning the language of the people you serve.
-Support FMC's overall mission by staffing and/or hosting week-long mission trips to your mission post.
-Build a mission support team and maintain relationships with each supporter by communicating a minimum of twice per year, including phone calls, thank you notes, newsletters, personal visits, etc.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

The ideal missionary candidate is passionate about sharing the Gospel, serving the poor, and making disciples all around the world. The ideal candidate will also be prayerful, grateful, resourceful, motivated, capable of working independently but also a great teammate, and possess the additional qualities:

-Practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church.
-Possesses the Core Values of FMC and a desire to grow in them (being submitted to Jesus, docile to the Holy Spirit, having expectant faith, being a joyful servant, being a prophetic witness, loving others, being humble, and practicing praise & thanksgiving).
-Eagerness to travel.

COMPENSATION

As compensation for all services provided, the missionary shall be paid a monthly stipend from the pool of funds raised from the missionary's support team. It is not a staff role.

Other compensation may include:
-A transformed heart and life, fully oriented to the only thing that matters: the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the eternal life He promises.
-Being thought of as strange, perhaps insane, by friends and family.
-Being cherished by the people you serve, who may slay the fatted calf for you.
-Being rejected, perhaps even harshly by some, for being an ambassador of Jesus.
-Increased freedom from material comforts that impede our relationship with Jesus and make it harder to "Go!" when called.
-Being counted among the sheep, not the goats, at the end of time. (Matt. 25:31-46)
-Hearing "Well done, good and faithful servant!" at one's final judgment. (Matt. 25:23)