Vocation Stories

If you would like to find out how you could get involved in our Comboni Missions... 

If you feel in your heart that this is your calling: to do God's work and to help the poor, the needy, the helpless, the sick... Then read how the Lord is still calling today...

 

God's ways really are strange and unexpected. I never thought I would become a Comboni Missionary Sister. My home is in the Philippines and I come from a poor family, the second of ten children. Like any other child of my time, I grew up and went to school. After finishing secondary school I was lucky enough to get a good job with a large company in Manila, the capital. It was a great joy for me to bring home my first pay packet and give it to my mother. With my salary I also assisted my family and my brothers with their school fees.

I am the second of five sisters, two of whom are already married. After high school I went to teachers' training college. I qualified and spent the next three years working as a teacher at a private school. Unfortunately, the salary I was receiving was very poor so I looked for another job and found one, much better paid, on the production line in a clothing factory! This job lasted for three years until I stumbled across the Comboni Missionaries.

I was born in the Philippines in 1968, the fifth of six children,   former bank teller. I came to know the Comboni Missionaries through "World Mission" the monthly publication of the Comboni Missionaries in Asia. I had a good job in a bank but I felt something was missing in my life. I discovered that in the life of mission I would find fulfilment and meaning. After almost six years of discernment I took the concrete decision of joining the Comboni Missionaries.

I was born in Brazil in 1971 into a family of ten children; former builder: I met a Franciscan nun who knew a lot about me and my involvement in my Christian community. She reminded me of the great lack of priests and told me that I could make a good priest to help in the community. She suggested I go   to   the   Comboni Missionaries and talk about my vocational discernment: I got to know about the life of Daniel Comboni and his mission in central Africa. My desire to become a priest was increasing and I considered also becoming a missionary.

I was born in Tsevie in the south of Togo, West Africa. My father is the son of Togolese immigrants in Ghana. He was born, brought up and educated in Ghana. He came to Togo when he was only 20. My mother was born and brought up in Togo. Both of my parents were already practicing Catholics before they met and were married in the Catholic Church. I am the third of five sons.

I was born in the Philippines in 1971, youngest of seven children, former teacher. It started the very day I met the Comboni missionaries in Manila, after reading the magazine "World Mission". I had been a member of the "missionary group" at the parish of St. John Bosco with the aim to pray for the missions and missionaries. When I read the magazine while doing research about mission I was moved and felt fascinated by the articles and experiences of the missionaries.

 

I was born in Lome, the capital of the small West African state of Togo. Although about 80 per cent of Togo people still adhere to their traditional religions, Christianity is growing in both importance and influence in our country. I am the fifth of twelve children - nine boys and three girls. My father is from Benin while my mother is Togolese. They were married in the Church. And while they made sure that we were all baptized, I cannot say that as a family we were particularly devout Catholics.