Join us in mission by supporting one of our missionaries!
These amazing young adults dedicate one week – 10 weeks of their lives to serving in communities that are underprivileged or recovering from natural disasters. As missionary disciples, they evangelize by word and action, helping the mission groups who come to serve with us to encounter Christ in the Sacraments, the people we are serving, and in each other. CMT missionaries wear many hats as they engage in personal and team prayer, home, church, and school repair, community outreach projects, and youth ministry. Read more about our mission leaders and prayerfully consider making a sacrificial donation. Your donation covers the living expenses, travel expenses, and stipends for the mission leaders, which allows us to not pass these costs on to the groups. Thank you for helping us keep participant fees low for young people who desire to serve our Lord on mission!
MISSION TEAM LEADERS
Favorite Saint: St. Therese of Lisieux!!
Favorite Saint: Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Favorite Scripture: Phil 4:13 – I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.
God remained though, teaching and fostering in me a deep love of learning, building, growing, music, history, theology, philosophy, outdoors, and all the true, good, and beautiful of Catholic culture, endowing me with what the world might call a handy-hardworking-renaissance-man, who could come up with a solution to just about anything you didn’t even know was possible;) I conceitedly attributed these goods to me and for misfortunes I blamed circumstance. I had everything perfectly backwards, reversed, and upside-down!
Blind, and ungrateful as I was, that didn’t stop Him coaxing me toward real freedom from my tangled mess of bitter resentment, and in the spring of 2019, through a chain of graced happenings, He lead me through a general confession to full-out deliverance from my locked up, mute, and lonely darkness, so that I can now speak, and see that I am heard, known, loved, and never alone.
Since then, I’ve been abiding in the Father’s Love like never before, and having crawled and toddled in this way for a few years now, I am just starting to feel like I can run! Sending me on 2 CMT spring missions, Christ gave me abundant opportunities to encounter Him in others to really hear, know, and love others with His own Presence and Sacred Heart, and to see them experience that same freedom, in Him, expanding my own heart in His, in theirs every time.
So grateful to be sent to even more missions with CMT! I sincerely hope and pray that all of you may experience His Loving Presence beyond all doubt, and receive the grace to give whole heartedly to God’s mission in just the way He calls you to, and truly taste the Joy and Peace of Christ in mission that floods our hearts every time we finally “Go, sell all you have, give to the poor, and come, follow me.”
Favorite Saint: Joseph of Nazareth
Favorite Quote: “Jesus” -Joseph naming Jesus Mat. 1:25
Favorite Scripture: John Ch. 17 -the powerful Love of Father and Son being manifested by the words of the Word filling a whole chapter, epic prayer to close out Christ’s final discourse with His disciples before His passion. Must read this 17th chapter of John!
Favorite Saint: Joan of Arc
Favorite Saint Quote:“Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.”
– Mary speaking to Juan Diego
Favorite Saint: St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Favorite Verse:Matthew 6:34. “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”
Favorite Saint: St. Joseph
Favorite Verse: John 20:21 “Peace be with you”
Favorite Scripture: Timothy 6:11-12
Favorite Saint: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Having still the ardent desire to serve the Lord as a 24/7 missionary, I finally decided to leave everything and embark a new adventure as a missionary with the Missionaries Servants of the Word in September 2019, where we served the
Kingdom of God by sharing his Holy Word by holding Bible Studies and retreats for the communities we were sent to mission to. After a little over 2 years, I just returned back and seeking to continue the calling of every Catholic to evangelize the whole world. I humbling ask you to pray for all of us at CMT and our upcoming youth and young adults participating. May we be docile to the Holy inspirations of the Holy Spirit! St.Joseph – Pray for us!
Favorite Scripture: ” Yet just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, So shall MY WORD be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it. Yes, in joy you shall go forth, in peace you shall be brought home; Mountains and hills shall break out in song before you, all trees of the field shall clap their hands.” -Isaiah 55,11
Favorite Saint: Mother Teresa
Favorite Quote: “Sanctify yourself, sanctify your work, and sanctify others through your work” -St. Josemaria Escriva
Favorite Saint Quote: “Live simply so that others may simply live.”-Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Favorite Saint: Mother Teresa
When I’m not working, I love to hang out with my friends at concerts and country dance halls, or in my hometown with my big, loud family.
Throughout my life, I have seen the huge difference an active faith life makes, and am excited to share what I’ve learned with those in South Texas. Thanks for saying yes to this mission trip… You won’t regret it!
Favorite Saint: St. Philomena
MUSICIANS/WORSHIP LEADERS
Favorite saint: Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Favorite Scripture: Joshua 1:9 “I have given you a command. Be strong and brave, do not be afraid nor dismayed. I, the Lord, your God, will be with you wherever you go.”
Favorite Scripture: Isaiah 43:16-19
Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, Who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, Till they lie prostrate together, ever to rise, snuffed out, quenched like a wick. Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the wilderness I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers.
Favorite Saint:St. Anthony of Padua
Favorite Scripture Verse: Philippians 4:6-7
Favorite Saint quote: “Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”
Fast Facts with Fran!
My Favorite bible verse is constantly changing! Right now it’s John 15. Pruning is a good thing, friends 🙂
I’m only 5 feet tall, still hoping to hit a late growth spurt.
I work at a Catholic radio station in Tampa, Florida!
Movies with dogs make me cry. This also includes commercials for movies about dogs.
I live off The Office, Friends, and Schitt’s Creek.
Do I go to Disney way more than the socially acceptable amount? Oh definitely… but that’s okay.
Favorite Scripture: John 15. Pruning is a good thing, friends 🙂
Favorite Saint: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Favorite Quote: “Verso L’alto”
Favorite Saint: St. Faustina
propitiatory offering for the world…”-St. Faustina
Favorite Saint: St. Joseph
SITE COORDINATORS / CONTRACTORS
Favorite Saint Quote: “I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.” – St Bernard of Clairvaux.
Favorite Saint:
Ryan: St. Joesph and St. Florian
Stephany: St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Joan of Arc
Ryan: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You, are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” – Psalm 23:4
Stephany: “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” ― St. Catherine of Siena