It is twenty seven years since I first came to Pakistan from Australia.
Coming from Perth, Western Australia, it was there I first met the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at their retreat centre. In answering the calll to religious life I was drawn by the spirit of the Sisters I met and the missionary dimension of the Institute with is diversity of works and its openness to the many different calls and needs in the world.

Before coming to Pakistan I worked in the media apostolate, in a centre with children and adults with disabilities, and finally in a parish pastoral team.

In 1980 I was missioned to Pakistan. The time of preparation provided the opportunity to study various aspects of the life, culture and mission of Pakistan, including Islam, important because of its influlence in the country, where about 98% of the population is Muslim.

I have lived in both rural and city communities, with Sisters mostly involved in the fields of education and health, both vitally needed here. Learning the language and supervision of small boys in a hostel were my first steps into life here, plus helping young women in their initial steps in religious life and with them the supervision of a small pre school in a poor colony. Over the years I  have been given different responsiblities at community and province levels and at present am in Lahore writing the history of this Province plus taking singing classes for the nursery children.

In Pakistan, our mission consists very much in a ' dialogue of life' and'presence', living together with our Christain people as a minority among our Muslim brothers and sisters, we strive to witness to Christ through our daily contacts, our lives and our works.