This came in the mail today:
Want to join the missions without leaving home: by offering your creative skills to evangelize and catechize?
Founded in 1998 by the Legionaries of Christ, Catholic World Mission seeks to effect long-term transformation of poverty of body, mind and spirit by bringing emergency aid, education, the Gospel, and spiritual and human support to those most in need. Our aim: To Conquer Poverty with the Richness of Our Catholic Faith.
Catholic World Mission supports over 10,000 poor children in 18 Mano Amiga (“Helping Hand”) schools throughout Latin America, as well as over 1,000 Lay Missionaries working full-time in more than 600 parishes and 40 dioceses in Latin America, bringing the Faith to over one million people, and sends medical missions and aid to parishes serving the poorest of the poor.
Will you help us to help our poor brothers and sisters in Christ?
Here’s what you can do:
* Catholic World Mission has launched a series of bi-lingual children’s coloring books telling the lives of the saints and generating enthusiasm to support their mission work. The first two books have already shipped over 25,000 copies and the next three books will be released in time for Christmas.
* These books are also made into radio dramas called “Glory Stories,” which have already been played on Catholic radio stations coast-to-coast.
These books and radio dramas are a series–each one teaching a Truth of the Faith, a Catholic virtue, and energizing children (and their parents) to spread the Faith in their families, parishes, and through Catholic World Mission–among the destitute throughout the world. Funds raised through donations for these items goes to support our mission work, building schools, supporting local priests and bishops, and sending medical missions wherever they are needed.
Are you a writer? Would you volunteer to write a 1,000 word children’s coloring book, capturing a child’s imagination with the excitement of the saints?
Are you an artist? Could you create 30 line drawings to illustrate a coloring book, illuminating the wonder of the Gospel in action?
Are you a recording artist? Would you lend your voice or musical talents for a “Glory Story” to bring beauty and enchantment to young listeners?
What a great project to have your talent and name linked with–and you’ll get full credit for your creativity with your picture and biography inside every product you help us produce.
Contact Ken Davison, Executive Director of Catholic World Mission at 203-287-6323 or via email. Visit us on the web at www.catholicworldmission.org.