• Our Associates are Christian men and women who desire to more clearly identify with the charism of the Saint Francis Mission Community. 
  
  In addition to supporting each other in prayer, Associates and Sisters meet regularly for faith sharing . Some Associates have committed to carrying out the works of neighborly love by helping in the ministries of the Sisters. 
  
  Pope Paul VI in Evangelism in the Modern World said that the consecrated lives of religious," are a sign of total availability to God, the church and the community," while the laity-- on the other hand-- exercise a special form of evangelization, which calls them to use "every Christian and evangelical possibility latent in the affairs of the world."