Sister Agnes Gabito FSP,
A Filipino missionary

In Taiwan for 24 years

LEAVING HOME
In the year 1963, two weeks after my final vows, I left the Philippines and went to China to spread the good news with Chinese brothers and sisters. I spent almost half of my existence in that mission as other missionaries did, and I would willingly share a few of the truths I discovered and lived during those 26 years away from my own country. Those experiences were precious and have become a part of my life.

STRANGERS
One day, a man I did not recognize anymore, came over to me with this wife and the two children, a boy and a girl. He said: “Do you still remember us? We were here some years ago and you told us something we never forgot so that both of us decided to become a Christians. Now we are here to tell you that we are married in the church and also the children are all baptized. We have been touched by God’s Grace. We have come to visit you and to say thank you very much for sharing with us the faith which is now as precious to me as my own life and my family?

NEW CHRISTIAN
Recently, a young lady was baptized because of the new word shared with her. Her name is Miss Chang Huei Liang, her new name is now Teresa. Really, I don’t know how to express how I feel… I mean, I am very happy as a religious and as a missionary sister.

OPENING HEARTHS TO LOVE
Many things happened in a minute, in an hour, in a day, in a week, in a year and most especially with in those 26 years. And never do I forget that every event in my life is a deep, deep truth of the love of God for me. I learned to listen, to be silent, to searched, to grow in understanding with my new non- believing brothers and sisters in Christ that they too may one day learn to know Christ.

Missionary life means becoming one with them, meeting the people of God, sharing their joys and sorrows, opening their hearths to the promptings of Christ.