Missionary Trips 2013
I am excited to announce two upcoming mission trips to Brazil. If you are looking for an experience to come to Brazil and help the poor, we will be having one mission trip (tentative dates Jan. 5-20) with Fr. Luis-Pascal in the Amazon (either Santarém or Xinguara where there is another community of Brothers). We will have a second mission trip right after World Youth Day (July 29 ~ August 15) here in Salvador to help Project Alto with myself and the other brothers. If you would be interested in joining one of these missionary, know someone who would be, or would like to help sponsor please send me a message. The dates are tentative, so if other dates would work out better please let me know.
Aside from the trips, our missionary from Laredo is getting ready to join us - I just put the notarized documents he will need for his visa in the mail today. Now that I know how to do that, so I'm ready to welcome more missionaries who are ready to give a year to serve the poor with the Community of St. John.
Mary Magdalene House
Last Friday I met with Gizelly who is a civil engineer here in Salvador (a friend of Rosa who has been out to see the house before and is also a civil engineer) and took her out to see Mary Magdalene house:
She is excited to help out, but a bit more concerned about the structural integrity of the house than Rosa and her work partner. I met an old guy named Edward whose been an architect for almost fifty years now - he is from the US, and offered to come and take a look at the house with me this Friday. Our contractor João (Fr. Ireneu's brother), is finishing up work on our new cells so we still have time to form a plan of attack for the renovations and figure out how much reinforcing we will need to do.
St. John Bakery
Well... while I was gone, Fr. Ireneu acquired ovens and baking equipment - they aren't in the greatest shape, but we've had a young man from EVA (school of evangelization) here cleaning them up over the past couple of weeks:
They are part of our Project Alto, which will involve teaching young people bread making skills.
Crowdrise.com - Online Donations
We are online for donations now! My sister set us up on crowdrise.com so we have a way to introduce projects and fundraisers and making giving much simpler. The donations will be collected by our monastery in Laredo and then sent to the Brothers here in Salvador, Brazil. If you look to your right at the top of the screen you can donate directly to Project Alto!
God Bless!
Br. Francis Therese
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