Vagabond Missions

Vagabond Missions missionaries inviting teens into a relationship with Christ and His Church, since 2007.

VM IS 100% FAITHFUL TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS TEACHINGS.

• We believe that every person deserves Christ. Failure to bring Him to the marginalized, or in this case urban America, is failure on the part of the Church.

• We believe that urban outreach happens most effectively in the midst of community.

• We believe in a holistic approach to ministry, and so we will empower youth with the res

ources to develop faith, character, knowledge, and life skills.

• We believe in developing catechetical structures appropriate to the context in which we serve.

• We believe in raising up young people who will remain in urban communities as pastoral leaders.

• We believe in calling youth to Sainthood.

• We believe that greatest intimacy with Christ is found in the Sacramental life of the Church.

A saint who spent his life without the Lord. His conversion and his writings show us that we are never too far for the L...
08/28/2026

A saint who spent his life without the Lord. His conversion and his writings show us that we are never too far for the Lord.

God wants to use you in your sin, in your doubts, and in your denials. He will continue to call you.

Even past our own conviction of this, we need to share this truth with those who have also gone astray.

Is God calling you deeper into Himself? Is He calling you to go out and share the truth of His mercy?

As we celebrate the feast of St. Monica, we are reminded to not lose hope in the Lord. She was a wife and mother who pra...
08/27/2026

As we celebrate the feast of St. Monica, we are reminded to not lose hope in the Lord.

She was a wife and mother who prayed unceasingly for the conversion of her family. God answered this prayer ten fold when St. Augustine turned his face towards God.

Through her prayers and God’s grace, we now have one of the most influential saints in our church.

You can supply physical needs to someone but if they do not know the Lord, the work is unfinished.

There are communities in your own city that are in need of prayers. There are families who are often forgotten that need your prayers.

Who can you pray for today?

It’s back to school season across the U.S. and we’re pumped! The summer has been full of adventure through camps, confer...
08/26/2026

It’s back to school season across the U.S. and we’re pumped! The summer has been full of adventure through camps, conferences, and mission trips but ministry still continues.

We’re here to build relationships and enter into a community.

Walking alongside someone in their faith journey starts with meeting each other.

Across our sites, our missionaries meet teens at the schools. Often this happens without Bibles or rosaries, just a hello and a familiar face (okay and maybe some chips and Gatorade on hot days).

Many teens in the inner city have a hard time with education. Often they have to get full time jobs to support their family, lack consistent housing, have no ride to school, or even the family support encouraging them to graduate.

The teens we serve work hard and desire to graduate! Please pray for them as they start their new school year!

Dispo recaps from camp ❤️At many of our sites, we take teens to summer camp slongside mission trips and conferences.This...
08/23/2026

Dispo recaps from camp ❤️

At many of our sites, we take teens to summer camp slongside mission trips and conferences.

This is an incredible opportunity for the young people to get out of their environments and be undistracted in time with our Lord.

Our ministry doesn’t stop after a fun week! We continue to walk with them daily in their relationship with Jesus. This is where discipleship happens.

Jesus went from place to place, to the cities you weren’t supposed to go. Encountering people you were supposed to fear ...
08/19/2026

Jesus went from place to place, to the cities you weren’t supposed to go. Encountering people you were supposed to fear or avoid. He wasn’t always understood. They called him a rebel, a progressive.

But He wasn’t a rebel. He simply went where He was needed. He went to those who needed a reminder that they are not orphaned.

This is what our missionaries strive to model. Be courageous, uncomfortable at times, and encountering those on the margins of our society.

We are excited about our new missionary hires! They are eager to start their mission year this week. Please keep them in your prayers!

The Assumption of Mary is a reminder that we belong in Heaven. As Catholics we pray often the prayers of Mary. We encour...
08/15/2026

The Assumption of Mary is a reminder that we belong in Heaven.

As Catholics we pray often the prayers of Mary. We encourage you today, on her solemnity, to meditate on the words of the Hail Mary and reflect on what is to come.

August 10th, the feast day of Saint Lawrence. Often known for his snarky comment of during martyrdom “flip me over” whil...
08/10/2026

August 10th, the feast day of Saint Lawrence.

Often known for his snarky comment of during martyrdom “flip me over” while being burned.

But sometimes overlooked is the comment that caused him to be martyred: “these are the treasures of the church”

Often times we see the Church and the people of God through a lens that is comfortable. A lens that doesn’t show someone who looks or lives differently than you.

Sometime you look through a lens of
“Just get a job”
“Don’t do the crime”
“Should’ve saved the money”
“I went through that and turned out fine”

The honest truth is that we struggle to see the image of God in every person and so we fail to see them as a treasure.

Who do you have a hard time to seeing as a treasure?

"Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John. Let us be cau...
08/06/2026

"Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John.

Let us be caught up like Peter to behold the divine vision and to be transfigured by that glorious transfiguration.

Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the body, detach ourselves from creatures and turn to the creator, to whom Peter in ecstasy exclaimed:

'Lord, it is good for us to be here.'"
From a sermon on the transfiguration of the Lord by Anastasius of Sinai

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During the feast of the Transfiguration, we are reminded that God enters into our lives daily.

And we ourselves are transformed by this.

It IS good for us to be here! But after our encounter here… we go on mission, following Christ down the mountain to the people.

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