In 1986, as a missionary group of the Movement, we fit into the rural missions of the Diocese of Rafaela. During the first half of January, Rafaela Church tackles the evangelization in places more distant. At each mission we are committed to a continuity of three years in which, for each year, the Diocese proposed a target: local knowledge, find potential leaders, form the community, etc.

In addition, we took a "motto" that summarizes the spirit of the mission and keeps us in communion with the various missionary groups of the Movement.

All brothers and sisters of the "Deepening" level and up are invited to come to know this experience. To participate you must find in yourself certain skills that help to give more channel the grace:

• Community capacity, to share, to work together.

• Able to postpone the own thing, in pursuit of the common good.

• Service attitude, willingness to what is needed, beyond personal tastes.

• Simplicity on links, capacity of encounter.

• Concern for the proclamation of the Word.

• Ability to tolerate precarious situations, heat, lack of sleep, etc.

• Surrender attitude banishing the complaint.

• Receptive and listening attitude.

• Ability to insert into the culture of the area.

• Search of remain in prayer. Listening to the Spirit.

«People today put more trust in witnesses than in teachers, in experience than in teaching, and in life and action than in theories. The witness of a Christian life is the first and irreplaceable form of mission: Christ, whose mission we continue, is the "witness" par excellence (Rv 1:5; 3:14) and the model of all Christian witness. The Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates her with the witness he gives to Christ (cf. Jn 15:26-27)» (RM 42).

The mission is not an activity, it's a lifestyle: that of the Gospel. It is responding to the sending of Jesus: «Go and proclaim» (Mk 16). It is adhere to the urgency of Jesus that men and women be saved.

John Paul II said: «We are missionaries above all because of what we are as a Church whose innermost life is unity in love, even before we become missionaries in word or deed» (RM 23). So we discover the mission as a dynamism of the Spirit, inward, in the missionary community, in the life of community, the services: cooking, cleaning, shopping and more. In the meetings: evaluation, discernment, life sharing, prayer. And out in the specific task of evangelization: home visits, meetings in the Word, Celebrations of the Word, processions, meetings with children, young people, visiting the sick, etc.

The mission is a call to holiness. From the Life of God in everyone, from the experience of knowing and feeling saved and loved by Jesus, faith arises. This love in our heart prompts us to not be silent about what we have inside and share the same feel of St. Paul: «woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!» (1 Cor 9,16b).