Padre Mickey Speaks

From Padre Mickey's fingers to Wounded Bird:

Hi everyone,
I rarely send out a single email to a group; that's Mona's department with our Missionary Newsletter thang, but I wanted to notify you all that Mona and I will be in los estados unidos on a sabbatical of some four months this year. After the sabbatical, we'll return to Panama for one year to wrap up our ministry here and, hopefully, return to a new position in the U.S.A.

We are really looking forward to the sabbatical, but we're a little concerned about funding. Our income here in Panama is small but we're able to live simply as the standard of living is not so high, but four months in EEUU would be next to impossible on our income. We are looking for grants to help, but since I hates to beg, I came up with another idea. I'm writing you folks as you are all familar with my blog Padre Mickey's Dance Party and many of you are fans of that silly Friday Red Mr. Peanut Bank and Gallito Mescalito Blogging thang I try to do every Friday. I've opened a Cafe Press store which sells t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, etc, which have Gallito Mescalito or Red Mr. Peanut Bank or Miss Egyptian Hippo of Love on the front. I'm hoping that this stuff will sell and that this income will help us fund our sabbatical. Of course, we'll also take donations to our Missionary Fund at St. Francis' website, too.

Click here to check out the Dance Party Store of Love, and if interested, please purchase some stuff.

I'm sending this email as I am well aware that you all have lives and aren't able to visit the blog every day.

So, thanks for any help you can give, and maybe we'll see you while were in los estados unidos, hopefully!

Gracias a todos,
Michael aka Padre Mickey

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Padre Mickey's Dance Party

Padre Mickey is an Episcopal priest and missionary who has served the Parroquia San Cristóbal for three terms. He and his wife, the Lovely Mona, sacrificed a great deal in their years of ministry in Panama. I have enjoyed the crazy, but occasionally serious, blog of El Padre for some years now. If you haven't checked it out, you should, especially his Friday evening dramas with the fascinating assembly of characters, some of whom are pictured above and featured in the merchandise at his store.

Padre Mickey posts many pictures of the parish activities at San Cristóbal. If you visit his blog, you will see the beautiful members of the parish in which he serves. The children are adorable.

UPDATE: Regarding the Dance Party Store of Love. Please! The "Store of Love" part is not what you're thinking.