Anna Feola is the wife of Country Coordinator Anthony Feola. Below, she shares how their entire family participates in Anthony’s missions. You can view the report for the Papua New Guinea mission that Anna mentions here.

My childhood memories are filled with airport runs to see my dad off to yet another mission field. I looked forward to photos and videos of beautiful faces and landscapes across the globe along with colorful souvenirs on his return. However, the stories of lives transformed by the power of the Gospel stole my heart and defined my perception of mission.

This formation shaped the missionary legacy that I want to pass along to my own children—a legacy that reaches all the way back to Our Lord’s closing remarks in Matthew’s Gospel. His words opened the missionary floodgates to the nations and continue to echo through the centuries to everyone who has ears to hear: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:18-19).

When Anthony proposed to me twenty-five years ago, we were on a path toward overseas missionary work. During our engagement, we spent six months on mission in Sweden, Kazakhstan, and China. Returning stateside, we married, and the Lord blessed us with five children. Though only one of us could travel overseas at a time for many years, we continued to approach every mission as a united front. In fact, “mission” expanded to include every aspect of our marriage and family vocation.

Through the work of Renewal Ministries, our family participates in overseas missions by praying for the missionaries and conversion of hearts, by investing financially as the Lord enables us, and by sharing Anthony with the precious souls in various nations. Our children join us in prayerfully discerning the timing and details of every opportunity.

With each new mission Anthony embarks on, we give our collective “yes.” Daily lifting up every aspect of the mission, from souls hearing the Gospel, to logistics, to divine protection and provision, our prayers at home carry Anthony through many spiritual battles abroad for God’s glory.

One year, his itinerary took him through Istanbul mere days before a terrorist attack rocked the international terminal he had recently passed through. We experienced incredible peace knowing Anthony was in God’s hands.

The Lord also has released prophetic words through our prayers an ocean away. Recently, when Anthony was serving in Papua New Guinea, the Lord revealed to me his desire to “visit Papua New Guinea with an outpouring of his Spirit to avenge the blood of martyrs and answer the prayers of missionaries who have sown in tears.” Unbeknownst to me, the people Anthony was serving have a special devotion to Bl. Peter To Rot, a twentieth-century martyr from Papua New Guinea in the process of being canonized. This word brought great encouragement and joy to the local church at which Anthony was serving. Many responded to the Gospel, received baptism in the Spirit, and began boldly and exuberantly evangelizing in the streets! All glory be to God.

Jesus reminds us, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Mt 9:37-38),

There is nothing more rewarding than entering fully into this mission with Our Lord as a family. We have discovered powerful graces that flow in and through a domestic church that responds to Christ’s commission to pray, give, and go as He leads—whether it be across the street or abroad. What a joy it is to be a small part of laboring in this great harvest!

This article originally appeared in the Renewal Ministries 2025 newsletter.