The Missionary Groups of the Home of the Mother, a non-profit organization in Spain with a universal vocation, is made up by a group of young people and adults who are
committed to apostolic work and Christian evangelization, according
to their own
personal condition and state of life, in close union with
the Servant Brothers and Sisters of the Home
of the Mother, founded by Father Rafael Alonso Reymundo. It is registered in the National Spanish Register of Associations of
the Ministry of the Interior in Group 1, Section 1, with the
number 172,487, since October 1, 2004, feast of St. Therese of
Lisieux, patron saint of missions. We desire to be an active
means, through which human and financial aid
can be channeled for developmental and formation projects, especially directed
towards the people most in need in Latin America, Asia, Africa,
and Oceania, with a vision characteristic of Christian
evangelization and, therefore, sustained by an undoubtedly missionary
spirit at the service of the needs of the Church, wherever she
may call us.
An Irish missionary priest named Father Christopher Harrington, friend
of the Home of the Mother, spoke to Jose Mario Ruiz Navas,
Archbishop of Portoviejo, Ecuador, about the Servant Brothers
and Servant Sisters of the Home. Bishop Ruiz Navas showed great interest
in meeting the Home and asked our founder, Fr. Rafael Alonso Reymundo, if we could go and work in his diocese, in one of the poorest areas:
the city of Chone. Father Rafael took this to prayer and meditating
in the light of the Holy Spirit, became firmly convinced that it was Our Lord and the Blessed Mother's will, that a community of sisters go
to Chone to help tend to the apostolic needs of Christian formation
of a great majority of the population, in addition to tending to their
material needs, with the consent of the General Superior of the Servant
Sisters of the Home of the Mother. Bishop Jose Mario Ruiz Navas
was informed of the affirmative response. The Servant Sisters
of the Home of the Mother would take on the task which he had requested
of them and thus, four sisters left for Chone to form the first community
of Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother there on March 25, 2003.
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