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Caring for the earth and its people since 2006
Limón, Colón, Honduras

Seeking God first. Gratitude.
Voluntary poverty. Care of Creation.
Simplicity. Loving our neighbor. 
Communal living. Prayer without ceasing.
THE LATEST
Read "Sister Joy, Sister Trust" A photo essay by Paul Jeffrey, United Methodist News Service

Join us in learning and implementing permaculture design!
    
             Join Sister Confianza as she takes a course in permaculture and designs a plan for the property in Limón with a local organization
                    serving children.  One month or longer.   
Learn more here.
Want to experience monastic life?  Become a sojourner or aspirant!
                   Join the Sisters in a life of prayer and service.  One year commitment.    Learn more here.
Also accepting other volunteers!
                   Help with sewing, elder care, household work, and more.  Two weeks or longer.    Learn more here.
Read the latest news from the Sisters 
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at their Google group page

Worship daily with the Sisters and Quakers from around the world
 through Pendle Hill's online worship


Join Sister Confianza in a Zoom Bible study every Wednesday 
 email her for more information

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​The Sisters
The two perpetually professed Sisters are from Oregon and are members of United Methodist churches there: Sister Confianza (aka Prairie Cutting, pictured on the left), a member of Hermiston First UMC; and Sister Alegría (aka Dr. Beth Blodgett, pictured on the right), a member of Oak Grove UMC.  Amigas del Señor Monastery spiritually shares in a Covenant of caring with Multnomah Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) of Portland, Oregon.  Our medical ministry is also supported by Boyceville UMC in Boyceville, Wisconsin, where Sister Alegría grew up. ​
 Amigas del Señor (Women Friends of the Lord) is a community of women dedicated to prayer, service, and care of the Creation. Founded in 2006, the religious Order is rooted in Methodist, Quaker, and Western monastic traditions. We are nuns living poor among the poor with a daily schedule of worship and physical work. For sixteen years, our contemplative lifestyle was facilitated by the Monastery's location amidst the beautiful greenery in the foothills on the North Coast of Honduras.  Due to their health, in July 2022, the Sisters moved to a house in the town of Limón.  We continue our ministry of earthcare through sustainable agroforestry at the rural location and in the large yard in town.  In 2025, we are rebuilding the rural Motherhouse with adobe.   We invite you to join us in Honduras, so we can move back! 

​While the Sisters' primary ministry is prayer, we also engage in other outward ministries, such as the sharing of 
The Upper Room devotional booklet on buses. We channel donations to support the local public health clinic and other charity clinics with medications, contraception, and materials, and even helped reroof the regional hospital in 2021.  We financed the installation of solar panels to power the clinical lab in Limón in 2024.
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Read more about our daily life
A balance of prayer and physical work.

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​Spend time at Amigas!
Great opportunity for your gap year, summer or winter break, semester abroad, or sabbatical.

​Donate to Amigas del Señor

Support the Sisters and their ministries. A large percentage of donations go to support health clinics and other needs outside the monastery. 
The First United Methodist Church in Hermiston, Oregon, accepts donations for the Monastery. You may donate by check or electronically. ​
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Electronic Donation: 
Go to https://herfumc.com/donations/

Fill out the form and type "Amigas del Senor" in the text box after the address.  (PayPal keeps a small portion of the donation for their services.)

By Check: 
Or make out a check to "Hermiston First United Methodist Church" and write "Amigas" in the memo line. Send it to:

   FUMC
   191 E Gladys Ave
   Hermiston OR 97838

The church has a locked mailbox, so mailed checks are safe.


Learn More

Visit the Amigas del Señor Google Group, where every few weeks the sisters post stories from their life. Anyone can join to receive updates by email!
  • See more photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/amigasdelsenor
  • Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/amigashonduras​

Contact Us

Email the Sisters at [email protected]

Phone, text, WhatsApp +504 9967-7070

Write to us by snail mail:          
           Amigas del Señor
           Limón, Colón
           Honduras

(no numbers needed)
Please note that it can take a month or more for mail to reach Limon.
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Read our book Giving Up Something Good for Something Better 

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​Published in 2017, this book covers five years (2008-2013) in the development of Amigas del Señor Monastery. It includes stories of the Sisters' daily life in rural Honduras, their work at the public health clinic, and adventures with robbers, wildfires, plus their spiritual reflections. This book is the closest thing we've got to a monastic rule, and explains how and why we do what we do.
  
$15 paperback (https://westernfriend.org/books)
 
$4.99 Kindle ebook (color)  
  
$10 per book with FREE shipping for bulk orders of 10 or more copies. Contact Russ Hanson directly ([email protected]). 
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Amigas in the Media

Meditations: Both Sisters have written meditations for The Upper Room international devotional magazine. 
By Sister Confianza:
Sept-Oct, 2024, May 19, 2024 (Spanish only), May 31, 2022 - April 10, 2022 - July 30, 2019 - March 1, 2019 -   
                  
February 5, 2019 - Another meditation will appear in Jan-Feb 2025. 
By Sister Alegría  
January 29, 2021 

Articles:
  • "Sister Joy, Sister Trust" A photo essay by Paul Jeffrey, United Methodist News Service, May 2025
  • Sister Confianza has contributed numerous articles and other bits to Western Friend Quaker magazine, including:
                       "The Power of Prayer" (March-April 2024)
                       "John Woolman's Remedies for a Disease called Consumption" (May-June 2020)
                       “
Water is Sacred-Water is Life” (March 2019, online)
                       “Chickens on the Cheap” (Nov-Dec 2017)
                       "Finding Truth in Fiction" (March 2017, online)
                       "Overcoming Need" (May-June 2015)
  • “Our Peace Testimony and Taxes”   by Sister Alegría 
                       In the April, 2019 issue of Friends Journal, Sister Alegría tells of her journey to stop paying taxes for war.
   
Audio Interviews:
"The Power of Prayer"
In the Western Friend Podcast #34, April 2024, Sister Confianza shares about her journey to becoming a nun at Amigas del Señor Monastery, and how prayer helps her with challenging life situations.
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The Need for Poverty"
Sisters Alegría and Confianza were interviewed by Mark Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio on September 1, 2015. Listen online to a one-hour edited version plus several three-minute bonus clips. We talk about what led us to found Amigas del Señor Monastery in Honduras, our call to live in "world-class poverty," our Methodist and Quaker influences, and more.
  
Book: Amigas del Señor: Methodist Monastery by Beth Blodgett and Prairie Naoma Cutting 
Rosalie Grafe of Quaker Abbey Press edited the email updates sent by Sisters Alegría and Confianza to create their first book, published in 2010. It tells the story of the founding and first two and a half years of the Monastery.  Purchase through Western Friend or Amazon.com.)
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