Mission Collection Procedures

Process for Handling Collections for the Office For Mission Education and Animation (OMEA)

If the Collection is for a Mission Appeal

  1. The person doing the mission appeal gives a letter of certification attesting to his/her authenticity to the pastor or parish administrator.
  2. The collection is not taken up by the person doing the mission appeal.
  3. The collection is not given to the person doing the mission appeal.
  4. The collection is counted and deposited in the parish account.
  5. Within two weeks of the collection being taken up a check is to be sent to the Office for Mission Education and Animation. It is made out to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith with "Mission Appeal" in the Memo line.
  6. Once the funds from the parishes have been sent to the Mission Office they are recorded and sent to the Mission Appeal Cause and the parish receives a receipt for the funds.

If someone comes to a parish and wants to speak on behalf of group in order to collect funds.

They need to contact the Office for Mission Education and Animation or the Vicar General's Office so that their authenticity can be verified.

Even if a parishioner knows a bishop, priest, religious sister, religious brother or layperson who wants to speak in a parish they cannot do any fundraising if they do not follow the procedures outlined above. For the safety of the parish do not allow anyone to collect funds in the if you have not checked out their identity and authenticity.

World Mission Sunday Collection

World Mission Sunday is celebrated throughout the world in October of each year. It is taken up under the auspices of the Pontifical Mission Societies for the needs of the Church throughout the world. After the collection is taken up the parish sends a check to the Office for Mission Education and Animation. It should be made payable to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith with "World Mission Sunday" in the memo line. Please send the check within two weeks because the financial year of the Office for Mission Education and Animation ends in December because we must report to the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

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