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PHOTOS COURTESY OF FATHER HONEST MUNISHI, C.S.Sp.
FATHER HONEST Munishi, C.S.Sp. with youth during a basketball competition at St. Edward Parish in Baltimore. To connect with young people, Munishi has been known to don sports attire and join them on the playing field.
Man with a mission Dan Masterton is a lay vocation minister with the Viatorian Community and a writer who has published two books on ministry with the National Catholic Educational Association. Find his writing at linktr.ee/ danmasterton.
by Dan Masterton
Father Honest Munishi, C.S.Sp. has embraced the highs and lows of a missionary calling—one that has taken him from a small Tanzanian village to major U.S. cities— listening to God at every step.
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IKE 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.”
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