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Mission Coop Appeal

Or, drop off check to the Parish Office made payable to St. Ambrose Parish and mark "Missions" in the memo line

Your Christ-like intervention and sacrifice of:

• $20 will feed a poor child or an orphan for a month. ($200 annually)
• $500 will educate a physically challenged child (annually)
• $600 will pay the bill for healthcare & family maintenance of a leprosy patient for a year
• $50 will enable a single mother or widow feed her family of 3 for a month
• $900 will provide a grocery store, and employment to feed a family of 10 with elderly parents and grandparents
• $100 for monthly pay for a catechist
• $250 will provide 4 goats to maintain a family of four
• $700 will fix the roof of a poor man's hut
• $800 will provide a cow to feed an entire family of 5 or more
• $1000 for treatment and rehabilitation of a leper
• $2000 to sponsor a seminarian for a year
• $6000 for a home for a family
• $25000 will build a mission chapel
  

We thank Rev. M.S. Selva Raj

for being our Mission-Preacher

We want to support the missionary activities and challenges of the Diocese of Kumbakonam, India. In particular, the panic and huge loss of life and livelihood for the poor and marginalized during and since the pandemic.

OUR 2024 MISSION COOPERATIVE APPEAL focuses on the missionary assets, activities, challenges and the needs of the Diocese of Kumbakonam. These are the most pressing missionary needs:

1) Establishing 8 more new parishes, each with a new church and rectory.

2) Providing the 136 Catholic schools and 22 orphanages in the missions with better facilities & educational materials.

3) Enabling 480 nuns and 4955 Catholic Teachers to educate the children and adults in the Catholic faith through annual seminars on Scripture and Catechist.

4) Projecting the healing touch and loving care of the Divine Healer through our diocesan hospitals staffed by nuns.

5) Education of more young men in the seminary. Note that every year an average of 120 young men and women go from this diocese to other missions and religious orders in India and abroad as missionaries.

6) Educating 4800 very poor or orphaned children. All the above mission projects are 80% dependent on MCP funds. Due to acute poverty of 65% of the Catholics in this diocese, they depend mostly on funds from annual mission appeal for the pastoral, educational, medical, and socio-economic emancipation of the marginalized and poor converts.