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Cynical about Christian mission trips? Monsignor Ramkissoon will change your mind.

Jesuitical

America Media

Spirituality, Christianity, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.8949 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

“No child is going to be abandoned twice.” That is the mission of Mustard Seed Communities, a nonprofit founded by Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon to serve some of the most vulnerable people on earth: children and adults in low-income countries with severe mental or physical disabilities. What began as a small home for a handful of children who were left to fend for themselves on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, is now a network of communities providing 600 children and adults with shelter, education, health care and training in Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Zimbabwe and Malawi. We ask Monsignor Gregory what inspired his ministry, about the ethics of “mission trips” and how working with people the world has discarded has shaped his understanding of God. You can find out more about Mustard Seed Communities—and support their incredible work this Giving Tuesday—here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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America Media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.

0:48.8

Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks.

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I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.

0:57.0

Good to be with you Ashley and happy Thanksgiving to you and to the listeners.

1:01.0

Yes, it's not Thanksgiving yet when we're recording this but

1:04.8

shouldn't every day be a day of Thanksgiving? You should certainly be grateful. Yes, that was

1:09.2

way too cheesy. But we're skipping SOT's and as one friend speaks to another this week, but we did want to share an amazing interview that we had about a month ago now.

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Yes, we talked with Monsignor Gregory Ram Kossoon, who started this amazing nonprofit called

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mustard seed that is basically their mission is to take the people who are the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable.

1:34.4

So these are people with severe disabilities in the developing world where they're unable to get the support and care and education that they need.

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And so mustard seed communities take them in

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and when they take them in, it's for life.

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Right, and this started out as sort of

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just a few dozen children in Jamaica,

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but these communities have expanded to Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic,

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Zimbabwe, and Malawi. So it really is this sort of, where ministry is, I don't know know oftentimes we don't do enough of this where we're talking to church ministries on the ground doing the work and mustard seed communities are definitely doing that.

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