 The first time I met her was in 1996. She seemed so fragile. I remember wondering silently: “How can she survive in the mountains?” But she was so sure that God wanted her to be a frontier missionary, I just had to give her a chance to serve. Deep inside me, I thought: “She’d be home in a year or two.” She served for six years among the Tagbanuas in Quezon, Palawan where they had 21 converts.
One of the things I had been sharing with her batch was my dream of seeing our missionaries serve overseas. But I never thought the time would come when she would actually be able to go. Imagine my surprise when I heard that she had gone to China, where she felt called to go to. Another former PFM missionary and batchmate of hers (Ernest Ochoco Jr.), had been instrumental in opening the door for her foreign mission experience. She was able to teach English in China for a month but had to return home when her visa was not renewed. I thought that was going to be the end of her overseas mission. Surprise! When I met a friend of hers from Palawan and asked how Minnie is doing, she said: “Oh, she is a missionary in Africa!”
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