re-entry'S ARCHIVE

• Once Latina, Always Latina: A Returned Missioner Talks Race

  
  

  • By Hady Mendez
  • On February 17, 2017

  Editor’s Note: FMS alumna Hady Mendez—recently returned from two years of service in Cochabamba, Bolivia—reflects on the role that race plays in her reintegration back from mission and in daily life in the United States. […]

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• Letting Go and Letting the Door Close

  
  

  • By Emily Norton
  • On March 17, 2016

  Editor’s Note: Programs manager Emily Norton shares how her participation in the FMS Re-entry Retreat for Class 29 led to the realization that she never fully let go of her own mission experience. For 2.5 […]

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• Mission Monday: Why We Do Re-Entry

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On February 4, 2013

  Rhonda Miska, who co-facilitated two re-entry retreats at Franciscan Mission Service this January, talks about the importance of the re-entry process on returning missioners. Co-facilitator Rhonda Miska singing during morning prayer with returned missioners Catherine […]

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• Mission Monday: Wine and Cheese Make a Reunion

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On January 28, 2013

  To welcome home our returning missioners we held our traditional Wine and Cheese Open House.   On this Thursday evening, snow threatened the roads and dark had already fallen, but Casa San Salvador soon filled with […]

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