Fr. Honest Munishi, C.S.Sp., Vocation Director of the U.S. Province shared his life and vocation story in the newest Vision Vocation Guide, in an article titled "Man with a Mission." He talks about how he first felt his calling and what it's like to be a missionary priest, taking on different assignments in among cultures. 

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Like Pastors everywhere, Father Honest Munishi, C.S.Sp. had to get creative. He was finding it tricky to organize young people at his parish in Baltimore. But he had a shrewd idea. “We are going to play soccer,” he declared one day. “That is where we started the youth program: on the soccer field, not in the classroom. From there, I brought in the youth minister to explain the faith—only after playing soccer, sitting down, maybe sharing some food together.”

And you better believe he was playing, too. “I had my shorts and T-shirt, and I was playing with them. Every game, I was there. Maybe sometimes I wasn’t playing very well, but they laugh at me, and that’s part of the game.”

As a missionary priest, Munishi has had many experiences of learning how to play whatever game the locals play. He belongs to the Spiritans, also called the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. His current post in Houston is a long way from his childhood home in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.

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