EMISSARY

FRANCISCAN MISSION OUTREACH + ACTIVITY REPORT + EASTER 2020

FMO has been seriously impacted by
the outbreak and spread of COVID-
MISSION IN 19. Gratefully, we were able to carry COVID-19 STATS AS
OF APRIL 4, 2020
out planned mission trips to Jamaica
A TIME OF and Honduras in January and
February, and complete three out of • HONDURAS:
CORONAVIRUS four Lenten parish missions. As the 264 cases
pandemic exploded, we were forced
• JAMAICA:
to cancel the last parish mission and
53 cases
trips to Honduras in March and Jamaica in May. Plans for the summer
are up in the air. Areas where FMO serves will be hit very hard because • HAITI:
of weak health infrastructures and limited resources. As in the US, social 20 cases
restric�ons have been imposed and Church celebra�ons curtailed. Some
countries are facing a possible total economic collapse. Many people are • CAMEROON:
day laborers who live hand-to-mouth and have no savings. Pope Francis 509 cases
observed that while this crisis exposes our vulnerability and false
• UGANDA:
certain�es, s�ll: “We have an anchor: by his cross we have been saved.
48 cases
We have a rudder: by his cross we have been redeemed. We have a
hope: by his cross we have been healed and embraced.” FMO is praying
hard for all our friends, benefactors, partners and those we serve!

FMO teamed up again with Frassa� Fellowship NYC for

another amazing January mission trip to Jamaica. Fr. Herald,
together with St. Marys, PA mother-and-daughter duo Lisa
and Stacie, were the advance team, and helped to prep
supplies and accommoda�ons for the 16-strong Frassa�
con�ngent that landed a few days later. The trip was a
combina�on evangeliza�on/service experience. The work
projects consisted of repairing and improving the fence
behind the rectory, now reinforced with a 1 meter high
cement wall base, and clearing and landscaping two areas
on the property (le� top). We evangelized with morning
programs at the parish’s two affiliated primary schools (le�
bo�om), that included games, songs and presenta�ons on
the saints. The team also hosted a “Family/Welcome Home”
Sunday for the en�re parish (including the four mission
chapels), with the theme of “Surrounded by the Saints.”

JAMAICA
HONDURAS

Fr. Herald was in Comayagua, Honduras February 8-18, 2020, collabora�ng with the CFR
friars at Convento San Serafin and with Missioners of Christ in a Pan de Vida Eucharis�c
youth retreat (above right) and a number of other forma�on ac�vi�es related to the
beginning of the academic/program year in Honduras (which runs Feb-Nov). The visit also
gave Fr. Herald the chance to meet the new young men from rural villages (above center)
who are staying at Casa Esperanza in order to con�nue their studies beyond grade school.

FMO is grateful to share that the three heart pa�ents

(Marie: 3 years - lower photo with her mother; Rosalie: 13
- lower photo center; Randy: 19 - upper right) for whom we
raised funds at Christmas to cosponsor for surgery with Mi-
UPDATE

Do, have all been successfully operated in Cameroon and

are doing well!
Randy shared: "Please tell all donors how grateful I am.
Without your help, none of this would have been possible
and I might not be here anymore. I'm fine again and I can
breathe again. I just have to get stronger and then I'm
looking forward to con�nuing my appren�ceship as a
mechanic. Unfortunately, I can't give anything to the
benefactors. I can only say THANK YOU and pray for
everyone. "
Because these surgeries came in under budget, FMO is also
helping to cosponsor three addi�onal pa�ents: Falifat: age
2 (upper le�), Michel: 2 1/2, and Gaelle: 23.

Tax-deduc�ble dona�ons to support the

“Jesus said, ‘Mary,... Do
not hold on to me, for I have
not yet ascended to the
Father. Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, “I am
ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and
your God.”
Mary Magdalene went to the
disciples with the news: ‘I
have seen the Lord!’And she
told them that he had said
these things to her.”
John 20:17-18
life, ministries and missionary efforts of the HOW TO HELP
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
can be sent to:
FRANCISCAN MISSION OUTREACH,
PO BOX 1086,
SECAUCUS, NJ 07096
FMO is a PayPal Cer�fied Charity.
online dona�ons can be made at:
paypal.me/franciscanmission
telephone: 718-618-4511
franciscanmissionoutreach.org
hello@franciscanmissionoutreach.org

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