Glenmary’s Adopt-A-Mission Program invites you to share what you have received by joining in the evangelization effort of the Catholic Church. Through Adopt-A-Mission, you—or your parish community, coworkers, friends or family—can lend prayers and financial support to your sisters and brothers in Mission Land, USA.
“Home Missions” is the name for dioceses and parishes in the United States which cannot provide basic pastoral services to Catholics without outside help. Basic pastoral services include Mass and the sacraments, religious education and ministry training for priests, deacons, religious sisters, brothers and lay people.
Adopters, by their spiritual and financial donations, help Glenmary provide these basic pastoral services and further the missionary effort of the Catholic Church in the rural areas and small towns of the United States.
St. Paul originated the idea of communities assisting one another. The gifts of the Greek Church were carried to the struggling and persecuted Church in Jerusalem. Glenmary continues this ancient practice. Through the Adopt-a-Mission Program, established parishes, organizations or individuals assist the missions.
While designed to aid Glenmary’s mission work by providing support through prayer, financial donations and mutual encouragement, this program also provides an enlightening and rewarding experience for the people of the adopting parish, organization or individual.
Glenmary missioners—including students—are waiting to be adopted. Priests and brothers serving as pastors and outreach ministers, respectively, are stretching every dollar to effectively establish a Catholic Church presence in the home mission counties they serve. The donations they receive from their adopters help them do even more to share the gifts of the Church with those they serve.
Glenmary missions come in a variety of sizes. Some are recently established churches in the earliest stages of development. Others have longer histories and deeper roots in the local cultures of Appalachia and the South.
But in all cases, these missions need your help to keep the doors open and the lights on. The members of the mission communities not only serve the needs of the Catholic minority but also reach out and serve the spiritual and material needs of the unchurched and the poor.
Contact Glenmary’s Mission Education and Ministry Office at 800-935-0975.
Develop a Glenmary mission awareness:
Establish priorities and expectations:
Request a mission profile for consideration. Profiles include:
Develop a covenant:
Prayer
Communication
Financial Commitment
Acknowledgments/Updates
Visits
Cooperative Mission Programs
Ongoing Support/Mission Education
Expectations Reviewed
Covenant Renewed
A one-time or monthly donation to Glenmary makes you our partner in sharing God’s love and mercy in Appalachia and the rural South.
This information is not legal advice. A donor should seek the guidance of a qualified estate and/or tax professional to understand the consequences of a gift.
Glenmary Home Missioners
Tax ID: # 31-0537070
Physical Address:
4119 Glenmary Trace, Fairfield, OH 45014
Mailing Address:
PO Box 465618, Cincinnati, OH 45246-5618
4119 Glenmary Trace, Fairfield, OH 45014
Mailing Address: PO Box 465618, Cincinnati OH 45246
