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Society for the Propagation of the Faith - "One family in Mission." The Society for the Propagation of the Faith supports missionaries in developing countries of Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, and remote areas of Latin America throughout the world with prayer, sacrifices and financial support.

For more information click on the website:

http://onefamilyinmission.org/

LiveStream broadcasts of First Friday Mass from the national office take place each month at noon EST.  You can view the Mass at our LiveStream website – www.livestream.com/1missionfamilylive- or through the LiveStream player that’s part of our Facebook page.  Feel free as well to submit prayer intentions, encouraging others to do the same:  pmsusa@propfaith.org.

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Society of St. Peter the Apostle - this Society supports mission vocations to the priesthood and religious life (men and women communities) through prayer, and financial support to seminaries and religious institutions.

For information click on The Society of St. Peter Apostle icon on the website below:

http://onefamilyinmission.org/

Holy Childhood Association - the Holy Childhood Association is a mission awareness with the aim of "children helping children" in developing mission countries through prayer, activities, and financial support.

Would you like to share photos or videos of your school, religious education class or homeschool group doing something special for kids in the Missions?  Write to hca@propfaith.org and tell your story - in words and pictures, if you would like!

 For information click on the Holy Childhood Association on the SPF website below:

http://onefamilyinmission.org/

This website has a special "kids" section for children to explore. It has stories about children from all over the world as well as games, activities, and prayers. You can access that directly by clicking on the following link:

http://www.hcakids.org/

More than 30,000 children gathered to celebrate their missionary spirit - and their role as missionaries- on a sunny day in Nairobi.  The annual Mass with the their local bishop, Cardinal John Njue, is part of the activities of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood in Kenya.  During the Offertory Procession, children brought gifts for children in need in their archdiocese - sugar, bananas, salt, chalk, and slates.  They also offered what financial help they could. 

For more information about the Pontifical Mission Societies click here.

 World Mission Sunday - mission awareness for all the missions of the world!

World Mission Sunday is a day set aside for Catholics worldwide to recommit themselves to the Church's missionary activity through prayer and sacrifice. Annually, World Mission Sunday is celebrated on the next-to-last Sunday in October. Offerings from Catholics in the United States, on World Mission Sunday and throughout the year, are combined with offerings from Catholics around the globe and distributed to mission dioceses - about 1,100 at this time.

On World Mission Sunday, celebrated the next to last Sunday of October every year, the Catholics of the world united at Mass to recommit ourselves to this Baptismal vocation to be missionaries.  As we pray and respond here in the United States, we are replicating what also took place in every parish and chapel in every corner of the globe.  Your generosity through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith is reaching those who await the “Good News” of Jesus, who long to experience His hope and love. 

              More than 1,150 young churches in the Developing World count on your generous response this World Mission Sunday.  Please also continue to pray that all of us in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown are eager and effective witnesses of Jesus, as He asked us to be.

               Even as we may struggle with challenges here at home, on World Mission Sunday, we were called to remember in a special way the great needs of the Church, and her life-giving service, in the Developing World.  We should encourage prayer, personal sacrifice and generous financial support for more than 1,150 dioceses throughout Asia, Africa, the PacificIslands, and remote regions of Latin America.

                In times of tragedy – natural disaster, war, and persecution – our mission family looks to the Church for help and hope.  World MissionSunday celebrates our unity as a human family and provides an opportunity to support the life-giving presence of local priests, Religious and lay catechists among the suffering and the poor of the Missions. 

                Thank you for personally investing yourself in the Church’s mission to bring the “Good News” of Jesus Christ to the very ends of the earth.  Please live your Baptismal call to be missionaries by supporting the Church’s worldwide missionary outreach in prayer and sacrifice.