FOREIGN LAY MISSIONARY ORGANIZATIONS • GREAT BRITAIN NETHERLANDS IRELAND • FRANCE NEW ZEALAND • THE VOLUNTEER MISSIONARY MOVEMENT (VMM) Shenley Lane, London Colney, Herts AL2 1AR The Voluntary Missionary Movement recruits, prepares and sends people with professional or technical qualifications and a Christian commitment to work for a minimum period of two years. Prior to departure for overseas ministries, volunteers attend a fiveweek residential preparation course. Personnel Requested: Teachers, Nurses, Carpenters, Engineers, Farmers, Social Workers, Secretaries Areas of work include Bangladesh, Borneo, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Israel, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Transkei, Upper Volta, and Zambia. IRISH MISSIONARY UNION SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL MISSION COUNCIL OF IRELAND 54 Wellington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland NEDERLANDESE MISSIERAAD (NMR) Bureau Personele Assistentie, van Alkemadelaan 1, s-Gravenhage. Holland The Bureau screens and selects those who offer themselves for church work in the developing countries, ascertaining motivation, spiritual and professional capabilities. Ministries include pastoral. social, medical, technical and agricultural works. COMITE DE LIAISON DES ORGANISMES 277 Rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris, France CATHOLIC OVERSEAS VOLUNTEER SERVICE The organization recruits, screens, and assigns skilled lay persons for work in overseas missions. For more detailed information about the above and similar programs, send for the annual brochure: MISSION INSTITUTES Published by the U.S. Catholic Mission Council 1302 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Suite 702 Washington, D.C. 20036 SOURCES OF USEFUL INFORMATION THE BUREAU OF CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS 2021 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 331-8542 Engaged in collecting funds for the support of American Indian missions, the Bureau also represents the Indian missions in government relations, especially in Washington, D.C., and encourages participation in activities throughout the United States, wherever there are American Indian and Eskimo missions. Rev. Msgr. Paul A. Lenz, Director THE CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601 (312) 236-7240 This Society serves as an instrument in the spirit of collegiality for the more equitable distribution of the resources - financial and personnel of the Church in the United States and its dependencies. Objectives of the Society include providing funds for the erection of buildings in the home missions and for the support of religious and lay missionaries, to finance the education of young men for the priesthood, to serve the teaching authority of the American hierarchy through publications, to provide religious goods for needy mission areas, to sponsor practical research pertaining to the pastoral work of the Church in the United States. Rev. Edward J. Slattery, Acting President THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION, INC. 1011 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 (212) 826-1480 The purpose of this pontifical society is to raise funds for the Catholic missions which come under the jurisdiction of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, missions in the Near and Middle East. Rev. Msgr. John G. Nolan, National Secretary THE PONTIFICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD 1234 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 347-0644 An international Catholic agency which promotes mission awareness and encourages mission participation among youth by offering mission oriented educational/liturgical programs to parishes, religious education and CCD classes. Young people touched by this mission message respond by prayer and personal sacrifice. contributing toward meeting the spiritual and temporal needs of children in 94 different countries. By a mutual interaction, the children of the world help one another to realize that Christ is truly universal. Rev. Francis W. Wright, C.S.Sp., National Director THE PONTIFICAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001 (212) 563-8700 Organized as the Holy Father's own mission aid society for the support of Catholic missions, the Society distributes offerings received impartially to the missions throughout the world. Most Rev. Edward T. O'Meara, S.T.D., National Director THE UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISSION COUNCIL 1302 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 785-9450 The purpose of the Mission Council is to provide a forum and organ for the evaluation, coordinating and fostering in the United States, of the worldwide missionary effort of the Catholic Church. Rev. Anthony Bellagamba, IMC, Executive Secretary |