Agencies Networking for Mission

Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB)
The leading US-based Catholic-sponsored philanthropic organization that focuses exclusively on providing healthcare to people in need worldwide. CMMB fulfills its mission by: developing and managing healthcare programs; providing medicines and supplies; training indigenous healthcare providers; recruiting and placing medical volunteers; and responding to emergencies. CMMB's placement program assists health providers interested in volunteering for short-term and long-term tours of service at selected clinical sites around the world. Publication: CMMB Today - quarterly.

CMMB
10 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011-5765
Toll free: 1-800-678-5659 ext. 32
Email: rdecostanzo@cmmb.org
Web Site: www.cmmb.org

Catholic Network of Volunteer Service (CNVS)
Promotes, recruits and refers volunteers to missions in the U.S. and other countries. Through more than 200 faith-based programs, CNVS works with U.S. dioceses, religious orders and the private sector in determining volunteer needs. Publications include: annual Response Directory of Volunteer Programs; bi-weekly newsletter, How Can I Help?; and quarterly Mission Handbook.

Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 506
Takoma Park, MD 20912-4423
Toll free: 1-800-543-5046
Phone: 301-270-0900
Fax: 301-270-0901
Email: volunteer@cnvs.org
Web site: www.cnvs.org

The Chicago Center for Global Ministries (CCGM)
An ecumenical venture of Catholic Theological Union, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and McCormick Theological Seminary designed to facilitate theological education for ministry and to further scholarly research from the perspective of globalization and the Church's catholicity.
Each April CCGM presentsWorld Mission Institute, a nationally-attended three-day conference addressing the Churches' mission and mandate. (USCMA is a sponsor of this event.) CCGM also has other study programs and lecture series.

Chicago Center for Global Ministries
5401 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Phone: 773-753-2564
Email: ccgm@ctu.edu

Conference of Major Superiors of Men
An association of the major superiors of religious communities and institutes of men for the purpose of promoting the spiritual and apostolic welfare of priests and brothers.

CMSM
8808 Cameron Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-588-4030
Fax: 301-587-4575
Web site: www.cmsm.org

Cross-Cultural Services
A service of Maryknoll for those seeking to minister acoss cultural boundaries. Preparing for Cross-Cultural Ministry, a month-long program, provides participants with the necessary information in a supportive environment that enables them to deepen their cross-cultural mission call. CCS also provides Acculturation Workshops that assist international priests and Religious with the skills to enhance their services in the USA. Other services provided address the challenges of living and working in cross-cultural settings, reflection on one's mission experience, and re-entry issues. The CCS team will custom design workshops to fit your group/individual needs and will travel to your site or host your group at Maryknoll, NY.

Cross-Cultural Services
PO Box 305
Maryknoll, NY 10545-0305
Phone: 914-941-7636 ext. 2394
Email: ccs@maryknoll.org
Web site: www.maryknoll.org

FROM Mission to Mission
Cross-Cultural Re-Entry and Re-Discovery for Mission
FROM Mission to Mission provides a network for laity, sisters, brothers, priests and ministers who have been involved in cross-cultural or global ministry. FROM helps its members by counseling and coaching missioners during their time of "reverse culture shock," offering periodic re-entry workshops and retreats, convening regional and national gatherings of missioners, publishing and distributing booklets and tapes pertinent to transition issues, circulating a directory of member missioners' names and addresses, and publishing a periodic newsletter. FROM's goal is to ease the re-entry process through sharing the joys, angers, fears and frustrations that mark the missioners common experience upon re-entry.

FROM... Mission to Mission
303 Atwood Street
Longmont, CO 80501-5508
Phone & Fax: 720-494-7211
Email: missiontomission@qwest.net
Web site: www.missiontomission.org

Holy Childhood Association
The official agency of the Catholic Church through which children of the world contribute through their prayers and sacrifices to the welfare of children in more than 100 mission countries. Its goal is to educate children in the United States about mission needs.

Pontifical Mission Societies
Holy Childhood Association
366 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Toll free: 1-800-431-2222
Web site: www.worldmissions-catholicchurch.org

Leadership Conference of Women Religious
A conference of the leaders of U.S. women's religious congregations, founded in 1956, to promote a developing understanding and living of religious life, to assist members to carry out more collaboratively their service of leadership, to provide a vehicle for dialogue with the Bishops' Conference and other ecclesiastical authority, and to collaborate with other groups concerned with the needs of society in continuing the mission of Christ in the world today.

LCWR
8808 Cameron Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910-4113
Phone: 301-588-4955
Web site: www.lcwr.org

The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
Under the direction of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Propagation of the Faith has a two-fold goal of promoting a universal missionary spirit and encouraging prayer and financial support of the local churches of the missions. Each diocese has a director. Publications: quarterly - Mission.

Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
366 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Toll free: 1-800-431-2222
Fax: 212-563-8725
Email: pmusa@propfaith.org
Web site: www.worldmissions-catholicchurch.org

The Saint Vincent Pallotti Center for Apostolic Development
The Pallotti Center promotes lay volunteer service that challenges laity, clergy and religious to work together in the mission of the Church. Their goal is to support lay volunteers before, during and after their term of service. Local Pallotti Centers are located in Boston, MA; Memphis, TN; Paterson, NJ; St. Louis, MO and Sacramento, CA. The National Office is in Washington, DC. The Pallotti Center publishes: Connections - an annual directory of volunteer opportunities, Shared Visions - a quarterly newsletter to nurture the spiritual development of volunteers during their service and Staying Connected, a free publication for former volunteers. The Center provides information and education on lay volunteering as well as personal evaluation and discernment. They also consult with Church administrators, leaders in religious communities and others who are planning to organize and/or support a lay ministry program. They have a Network of Former Volunteers and a weekly Job Bank.

Saint Vincent Pallotti Center
415 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Toll free: 1-877-VOL-LINK
Phone: 202-529-3330
Email: pallotti@pallotticenter.org
Web site:www.pallotticenter.org

U.S. Catholic China Bureau
Founded in 1989, the Bureau fosters communication and friendship with the people of China through sharing the values of the Gospel. It promotes understanding among American Catholics about the Catholic Church and the situation of Catholic Communities in China. It fosters re-engagement of the U.S. Catholic Church in a new missionary partnership with the Catholic Church in China. The China Bureau publishes China Church Quarterly; organizes the biannual National Catholic China Conference; sponsors Religious Study Tours to China; and presents lectures and seminars on the social, cultural and religious context, and Christianity in China today.

U.S. Catholic China Bureau
Mr. Doug Lovejoy, Executive Director
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: 97-761-9000
Email: chinabur@shu.edu
Web site: www.usccb.net

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
Secretariat for Education --- Committee on World Missions
The Committee on the Missions is to coordinate the Catholic U.S. overseas mission effort, basing itself on the 1986 NCCB pastoral statement To the Ends of the Earth and subsequent papal encyclicals such as Redemptoris Missio. The committee works closely with the Pontifical Missionary Societies, the mission-sending societies of men and women, organizations of lay missioners, and other organizations promoting the mission ad gentes, encouraging, supporting and fostering mission animation efforts in the United States.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Secretariat for Education
3211 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Phone: 202-541-3000
Email: worldmission@usccb.org
Web site:www.usccb.org/wm

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
Secretariat on the Home Missions --- Committee on the Home Missions
The Bishops' Committee on the Home Missions (CHM) evangelizes by giving financial support to missionary activities that strengthen and extend the presence of the Church in the United States and its dependencies. Through its annual fundraising campaign, the Catholic Home Missions Appeal, the CHM educates U.S. Catholics regarding mission needs and invites them to assist felow Catholics in the practice of their faith.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Secretariat on the Home Missions
3211 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Phone: 202-541-3000
Email: homemission@usccb.org
Web site: www.usccb.org/hm

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees / Migrant and Refugee Services (PCMR/MRS)
The focus of PCMR is immigrants, refugees, migrants and people on the move by improving the welcoming capabilities of local churches in promoting increased participation and inclusion; increasing the effectiveness of pastoral ministers as well as diocesan and parish staff/leaders in responding to the growing diversity and numbers of newcomers; increasing the availability of sacraments and pastoral services in all PCMR apostolates; and increasing the ability of all local churches and communities to promote "faith-based" action and advocacy.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - PCMR/MRS
211 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017-1194
Phone: 202-541-3352
Web site: www.usccb.org/mrs

If you are a former cross-cultural worker (religious or lay) or a potential volunteer interested in exploring possibilities for service in the U.S.A. with newly-arriving immigrant and refugee groups... see more information now. (MRS/APD)

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