Page 26 - Catholic Extension Magazine Spring 2020

26 INSPIRE

Feature Story

MISSIONARY

IN LITTLE

Seminarians, priests,

sisters and laypeople
bring hope and
energy to the margins

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is

a missionary church. In the
earliest days of Christianity,
Jesus asked His disciples to
Following the bring the Gospel to the ends of the Earth and
beatification of
Blessed Stanley they took this mandate literally. The missionary
Rother, this mission impulse was evident from the beginning.
church was dedicated
in rural Decatur, As Pope Francis reminds us, the Church exists
Arkansas, with not for itself, but for the sake of being missionary.
support from Catholic
Extension. We are a Church that is not complacent or con-
tent with the status quo but is always on the move
and looking to extend out from the center.
At Catholic Extension, a missionary spirit per-
meates everything we do. We look outward to the
peripheries as a source of new energy and growth.
We learn so much from faith communities on the
margins and believe in their vitality. We are privi-

leged to bring them much-needed support.