Mary’s Children Mission
Our story
A Catholic mission serving life, mothers and children in Ngong.
Our origin
How it all began
Mary’s Children Mission was born from the personal vocation of missionary Fernando Gutiérrez. After time in Melilla, Calcutta and other places where his extensive missionary experience was forged, he arrived in Kenya in 2019.
Formed alongside the Missionaries of Charity Fathers and deeply rooted in the spirituality of Mother Teresa, he discovered a very concrete call: to protect the lives of the most vulnerable, children and their mothers.
Faithful to that call, in 2022 he settled in Ngong, where he began his missionary work with the mothers and young children who live in the shanty town built on the landfill.
Testimony
Children of Mary
“I asked the Lord: what do You want from me? The Children of Mary, the children who die before being born. Take them to Mary and She, my Mother, will do the rest.”
Every morning for the next six months, I wrote “Children of Mary” on the petition box at Mother Teresa’s tomb. Later I understood that I had to surrender to His Will, and I began to write “Whatever You want, Lord”. This is how God put it in my heart that I would not be alone in the fight for the children.
We are all “Children of Mary”, regardless of our creed. Mary is our Mother and She wants only one thing: to bring us to Her Son, so that we may feel God’s infinite love for each of His children. Mary, Mother of every child in the womb, who always comes to our aid, from conception to natural death.
Mary, always Mother, we bring you your children and ask you to guide us and protect them. They are yours, we are yours.
Fernando Gutiérrez
Ngong, Kenya
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Every contribution allows us to keep walking alongside the mothers and children of Ngong. We invite you to become part of this story.
