First steps

Lynn Myrick (my wife) and I have joined the Franciscan Lay Missioners (FMS). For the next few months we're living at Casa San Salvador, the FMS mission house in Washington DC, where we hope to learn how we can better serve poor people both here and then outside the United States. Throughout our marriage Lynn and I have thought that missionary service might one day be right for us. During the last two years, and while Lynn was completing an internship as a campus minister at Furman University in Greenville, SC, we started reading about missionary service, and making applications. This past spring we attended a discernment weekend with the Franciscans and shortly afterward accepted their invitation to join them. We've been here two weeks and feel good about our decision: good instruction, dedicated fellow missioners, a well-organized program. I'll go into more of that with my next post and also look back briefly at the incredibly challenging process of making good on that accepted invitation.