Suriname

I grabbed Suriname out of this week's bag o' countries for no good reason - only that I swam in high school against a guy from Suriname who went on to win an Olympic gold medal.  Anthony Nesty, I still thank your coach at Bolles for entering you in the 100 breast, so I could say I beat an Olympic gold medalist.  (Two actually, but who's counting.)

But I digress.

Suriname doesn't get much coverage in the Catholic Church - the last story in FIDES is from the installation of a new bishop by John Paul II - but I did find a couple of family-run missions there.  When you think about it, it's cool to see the Spirit connect people so randomly so that I (and maybe you) end up praying for:

The Shirley family, witnessing to the Aukan people in Suriname

The Rhoads family, in Paramaribo

and

Jared and Wendy (and now Lydia Grace!), witnessing to the Saramaccans.