Marie Foote's Page

UNDISPUTED FACT #1: Total number of days since WorldVenture handed me an official-looking appointee name tag - 76.



UNDISPUTED FACT #2: Total number of unpublished days for this particular URL since entering realm of official appointee journeying - 79.



UNDISPUTED FEELING ABOUT UNDISPUTED FACTS: Guilt, to the max.



UNDISPUTED FACT ABOUT UNDISPUTED FEELINGS: Welcome to missionary life.



What am I not telling you about the… Continue

Choosing Missions ... for My Children



Before I became a parent, my main perspective about raising a missionary family came from my positive experiences in the Philippines. I loved being a missionary kid (MK) and to me, the Philippines was home in every sense of the word. As I became an adult, I realized that not every MK is grateful to have grown up overseas, for reasons as varied as the landscape of loving it. Instead, for them, the only way they would use the word “positive” in the… Continue

My First Beginning



Thirty-four years, two months, and twenty-four days ago, I was born into a missionary family. As I told WorldVenture, our missions agency of choice, "I took my first breaths on March 13, 1975 at 5,280 feet above sea level, when a Jewish doctor delivered me into the waiting arms of an Italian, Conservative Baptist, ex-Catholic priest and his Filipino wife. No, this is not the beginning of a bad joke ... it really was how my life began and I am grateful to God for… Continue