Missions Office

320 Cathedral Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Phone: 410-547-5498

Kelly Hellmuth, Project Coordinator, Holy Childhood Association

Agnes Supernavage, Project Assistant, Baltimore Haiti Outreach

Purpose: To promote within the Archdiocese an awareness of missions. To coordinate the collection and disbursement of funds to the National Office of the Pontifical Missions Societies and to the various missionary organizations participating in the Missionary Cooperative Plan. The office also organizes mission trips to various developing countries.

Baltimore and Gonaïves, Haiti Outreach Project - Around the time of 1820 a group of free young women, led by Mary Elizabeth Lange, fled Haiti to start a school for black women in Baltimore. The school was followed by a religious one in 1828 and an orphanage was added the same year. In 1829 Mother Lange founded the Oblates Sisters of Providence, first Congregation of Black Nuns in the United States. Find out about the continuing efforts made between Baltimore and Haiti.

Summer Camp in Haiti for Youth
This coming summer, several archdiocesan youths and youth ministers will have the opportunity to volunteer in Haiti and experience life in our sister diocese of Gonaives.

The youths and youth ministers will spend one week (Sunday to Sunday) teaching bible stories, English conversation, arts and crafts or leading games for the children of the Good Samaritan school in Saint Marc, Haiti. Participants will be housed at the school. Accommodations and food are simple and safe.

Participants will need to reserve and pay for their round trip plane ticket to Port au Prince, Haiti.
The Baltimore Haiti Project pays for local transportation, lodging and meals.
Participants need a valid passport to travel to Haiti.
The camp is open to high school and college youths (16 to 22 years old).
The camp will take place either Sunday, July 6 to Sunday, July 13 or Sunday, July 13 to Sunday, July 20, 2008.

For more information, contact the Missions Office at 410-547-5498 or email RMortel@archbalt.org or ASupernavage@archbalt.org

Application deadline: April 15, 2008

Application for Haiti Camp

The Pontifical Mission Societies - There are four societies, each receiving the official title of "Pontifical" work in 1922, and having their central administration transferred to Rome. National offices exist now in more than 120 countries. Today, this "family" of mission societies is the Church's primary means to inform Catholics about her worldwide missionary work and encourage their active participation--through prayer and sacrifice--in those efforts.

Mission Cooperative Plan

Prayer for the Missions

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