425 Church Street
Monterey, CA 93940
Tel. 831 373 4345 extension 221
Fax 831 373 1175
Purpose of the Program.
In cooperation with the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, missionaries from Catholic organizations are invited to visit parishes in our Diocese of Monterey once a year. Through these visits, the missionaries share their experiences, create awareness, and ask for financial support and prayers for the challenges that their organization faces in addressing needs of the people they serve.
Applying for Participation in the Program.
Groups interested in applying for participation to the Mission Co-op Program must be either a Catholic diocese or eparchy, or in a diocese in the United States that has been designated as missionary by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Home Missions Office, or a recognized Catholic missionary society in good standing serving in foreign countries provided it has a designated US representative and has a 501(c)3 non-profit status.
Please include in your letter of application a description of your mission’s work and location, and a brief explanation of how the funds collected will be used.
Please also include the email and regular mail address of your contact person in the U.S., and background information regarding the mission speaker (e.g. is the person bilingual in English and Spanish).
Please indicate if you have participated in these Mission Appeals in other dioceses in the U.S. in the last three years, and the name(s) of those dioceses.
Please also include a Letter of Introduction from the local Ordinary or the community’s Superior General which grants authority to the U.S. contact person to represent the group for mission appeals.
Applications must be received by the end of November to be considered for the following year. Notifications to those selected to come will be mailed in February or early March.