Blue Eagle Ministries provides unique travel and formation experiences. We are multicultural because the Church is multi-cultural, the world is multi-cultural, and the human heart is multi-cultural. Since 2019, we have been forming a network of prayer warriors, missionaries, and young people who want to see the world. By taking our faith on the road together, we can see and know God while we experience and build relationship.
How do we engage the young people of the Church? On the road! Church classrooms are not the place that young adults will believe in the omnipresence of our loving God. Jesus sent his followers in teams to engage people on the path of life. Blue Eagle goes to Panama, to Honduras, to Portugal and Paris and so much more so that young people can see, experience, and hold in their hearts the presence of the Church everywhere. Relationships form, travel pressures bring responsibility, adventure lies around every corner. Whether we are dancing with the elderly in a nursing home, attending Mass with teenagers in a mountain village, or touring the streets of Paris, God is in our hearts. Blue Eagle is dedicated to bringing unique travel experiences that invite a change of heart. Young people alive on the journey become young people alive in your parish!
Blue Eagle Ministries has seen the multicultural face of the Church in many places. Every year that passes in the US reveals a more fully multicultural church. One century ago the young people of the Church had European roots. Today they have Hispanic roots. Latin America comprises many countries, many cultures and languages, but shared values of family, hard work, and an experience-driven outlook on life. Blue Eagle has seen those young people starting businesses, taking up jobs in the Church, raising new families, attending events like the V Encuentro, and coming alive with new faith in Christ.
Blue Eagle ministries seeks to build bridges between parents and their children, young people and entrepreneurs, baptized Christians with their bishops, and impressionable believers with the positive movements of today's world.
Ministry fundraising has taken an exciting turn today. Instead of people giving to collections, they are sponsoring others. Missionaries have to raise their own money by asking for help. In turn, they go with a personal connection into the places where they will serve. Your money can go directly to an experience for a young adult who wants to see the world. But we use money as an excuse not to go. Maybe it should be given to the poor, to the Church, or to savings for the future. But Pope Francis said in Panama, 2019 that the young people are not the future but the NOW of the Church.
Through person-to-person connections, donations, and business sponsorships, Blue Eagle will leverage your money to make possible incomparable experiences. In Portugal, we told the pilgrims, "with Blue Eagle, you will never get what you pay for. You will get much more." God's grace is not an economic equation but an equation of the heart. The real factor that makes our mission possible is the Christ-like generosity of those who make the mission possible.
Joe Goldsmith, S.T.L.
Director and CEO
team@blueeagleministries.org