
My Mom Chose Life: a missionary’s reflection
Missionary Josh reflects on his “why” for defending and celebrating life with Biking for Babies. Josh is a first-year rider missionary from Illinois.
Missionary Josh reflects on his “why” for defending and celebrating life with Biking for Babies. Josh is a first-year rider missionary from Illinois.
Missionary Max reflects on his “why” for defending and celebrating life with Biking for Babies. Max is a first-year rider missionary from Ohio.
“PRAY vigorously for our missionaries. They will be told countless lies in the months leading up to the ride and countless more during it. We are told, ‘For the Spirt God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline.’ (2 Timothy 1:7) The storm is ahead my friends, but, with your help, our missionaries will meet it with joy. And they will not listen to the whispers of the wind. They know, fear, he is a liar.” Kevin Biese
A national pro-life movement called “40 Days for Life” begins tomorrow on September 28. If you have never had the chance to participate in the nation’s largest pro-life mobilization, this may be the opportunity for you! From their website: 40 Days…
I get stuck thinking that the Women’s Care Centers are only serving those who don’t come from a good background or are in an abusive relationship or come from a broken home and have no support system. But these places serve women from all different backgrounds and no matter where they come from, all are treated with dignity and respect.
Just as our leadership team, riders, and support crew teammates come together from all over the United States to ride out our mission, so too do we want our PRCs to work in partnership to succeed in our ultimate mission of conquering abortion everywhere.
“As your true physical and spiritual strength improve, you will find yourself constantly persevering through 1 more push-up and praying in thanksgiving even after a bad day. “
By adopting some new techniques to be more generous with our talents, our money, our time, and our gifts, we can be more generous with our selves, our compassion, our love. Sarah Swafford says, “The very act of loving is an act of self-donation, of giving ourselves to another.”
Pope Francis said, “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.” We never know how God is going to act through us in different encounters.
“When I first think of biking, my immediate reaction is not to think that that’s how people evangelize. But B4B has given cyclists a beautiful opportunity to share their passion: to put a seemingly non-religious activity into the midst of the New Evangelization.”
In this first period of formation, the young adults:
With eyes now opened to the need and Christ-centered solutions of problems, these young adults are sent forth as “missionaries” into the rest of the formation program and into the rest of their lives, committing to live with the truth of the Gospel of life as the lens through which they see every relationship, every decision, and the world at large.
In this second period of formation, the missionaries
In this last period of formation, after the National Ride, missionaries