For nearly 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has been sending missionaries to the nations as part of the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20), and today, that mission is still ongoing. Though much good has been done in that time, people all over the world continue to live and die without ever knowing the love of Jesus. Family Missions Company (“FMC”) was founded in 1997 to address this injustice. We are lay, Catholic foreign missionaries – both families and singles – committed to sharing the Gospel, serving the poor, and making disciples wherever the Holy Spirit leads us.

In response to the call of Jesus, we do as He commanded: to be His witnesses to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). Though we are a lay-run apostolate, we collaborate with the Catholic Church in the locations we work around the world, and we live in and among the poor we are sent to love and serve. It is only through making real friends with the poor that their lives are transformed, hope is restored, and the Kingdom of God grows.

Saying “yes!” to the Lord’s invitation to missionary life is an extraordinary opportunity to not only draw close to Jesus through the poor but also to take the Gospel to new places. The spread of the faith from place-to-place has always required men and women to endure difficulty, and our times are no different. FMC missionaries living on the mission field often enter into a long process of inculturation, language acquisition, making new friends, gaining the trust of locals, establishing loving relationships, and being a light to them through their words and way of life. We hope you’ll join us!