When I was in high school my parish didn’t have life teen. Instead, I went to “faith sharing” at the Barrys’, a married couple about my parent’s age that had formerly been missionaries. When their children were young, they packed up their family and traveled to various countries sharing the Word of God and the catholic faith. Because of their witness and the witness of many couples in my parish community, I always connected being a missionary to someone on a foreign mission. I saw their