Amigas del Señor
Subtitle: Methodist monastery
By: Beth Blodgett, Prairie Naoma Cutting
Contributors: Cutting, Prairie Naoma
Publisher: Quaker Abbey Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780982003510
Subjects: Missionaries; Women missionaries; Medical Missionaries; Description and travel; Travel
Description: On February 2, 2006, two intrepid women set off from Portland, Oregon via Greyhound bus for Limón, Colon, Honduras. There they would establish a new thing, a small monastery and medical mission using sustainable living, voluntary poverty, and religious practice as nuns following Methodist and Quaker traditions of worship and governance. Soon La Doctora, Pediatrician Beth Blodgett, and La muchacha, her assistant, Prairie Naoma Cutting, would be deeply involved helping in nearby clinics. Reading like a frontier women's story, this adventure (still continuing in 2010) has fire, hurricanes, and a robbery as well as other exciting accounts. These gringas become, by the close of the collection of letters home, true hermanas, religious sisters to the neighbors in their rural community. Now professed nuns, they invite other courageous women to join them in a life of service. -- Publisher's description.