anyone can do this, but not everyone will

Become a Missionary

Three people sitting together, smiling and posing for the camera at an indoor gathering. The person on the left is wearing a brown hoodie with the hood up, the person in the middle is wearing a white hoodie, and the person on the right is wearing a light gray Reebok sweatshirt.

Sharing Jesus’ vagabond heart for the lost, we at Vagabond Missions build friendships with and serve young people in inner-city communities to bring them the good news of the Gospel. When you partner with Vagabond, you become part of a close-knit, mission driven family working together to bring the Gospel to forgotten communities across the country.


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Over 75% of inner-city teens have no connection to a church community. Many face poverty, violence, and gang influence, creating barriers to faith. Without intervention, many are left without hope, direction, or a relationship with Christ.

But when young people encounter Jesus, their lives change. At Vagabond Missions, we connect inner-city communities with Jesus and His Church.

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THE MISSION

Vagabond Missions fosters belonging in a community bound together by Jesus where everyone is known, needed, and a part of something bigger. Families from inner-city communities belong in the Body of Christ, and the Catholic Church belongs to them. With Vagabond, you’ll go on mission and build community in these neighborhoods that are starving for faith, love, and belonging.

Be a Missionary
Young man in gray hoodie and beanie holding a megaphone, speaking to a seated audience indoors.
Two young men celebrating and having fun, one of them with flour on his face and tongue out, the other wearing a pink and black beanie and gray shirt, both in an indoor space with a white wall and a partial sign in the background.
Three people smiling and posing for a photo indoors, with one person in the back making a gesture with their hand.

“I PREFER A CHURCH WHICH IS BRUISED, HURTING AND DIRTY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN OUT ON THE STREETS … RATHER THAN A CHURCH WHICH IS UNHEALTHY FROM BEING CONFINED AND FROM CLINGING TO ITS OWN SECURITY.”

POPE FRANCIS
EVANGELII GAUDIUM, 49

Follow our journey.

At the Presentation, Mary hears the prophecy that a sword will pierce her heart. She says yes anyway. The Sorrowful Mother shows us what compassion really looks like — not fixing from a distance, but loving close enough to feel the weight of
St. John Bosco didn’t wait in a classroom. He went to the streets. He saw boys in prisons and asked, “How do we love them before they end up here?” So he showed up in playgrounds, job sites, alleyways — anywhere young people
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Could I really do that? A lot of young adults feel called to something more. But the questions, fear, and unknowns make mission life feel impossible. We get it. We’ve been there. That’s why Vagabond Missions exists: to train, form, an
You don’t have to be impressive to be a missionary. You don’t have to look a certain way, or listen to certain music, or be from a certain neighborhood. You don’t need the perfect words, the perfect plan, or the perfect ré
A little Mother Teresa quote that resonates with us as a mission. The work we do can be tiring, challenging, and uncertain at times but joy oversees all of it. Christ gives us his contagious joy so we can be in solidarity with our community. We a
He’s not asking you to have it all figured out right now. When Jesus called his disciples he ask them to do this or that in order to be with him… he asked them to follow him. And from that call their lives and others were transformed