Mission Cooperation Plan
Each summer the Global Mission Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago facilitates the Mission Cooperation Plan, an opportunity for about 75 international missionary dioceses, religious congregations and organizations to share their stories and invite support from our faith communities. (For the webpage designed for missionaries to apply for this program, go here.)
This annual second collection provides vital support to ministries that witness and proclaim the love of Jesus in areas of the world affected by poverty and upheaval. Missionaries travel great distances to evangelize in remote and persecuted communities. They form priests and lay leaders, educate adults and children, offer medical care, provide safe homes, administer the Sacraments and more.
We are very happy to welcome missionary appeal speakers to visit our parishes and churches during the summer months of June, July and August 2023!
Parish Resources for 2023 Missionary Cooperation Plan
- Tips for a Successful Missionary Visit
- Missionary Prayer of the Faithful (English | Spanish | Polish)
- Generic Bulletin Piece/Announcement (English | Spanish | Polish)
- Online Donation Page: If your parish or church cannot accept online donations, send donors to WeAreMissionary.org/give.
- Evaluation Form
- Missionary Prayers:
Collection Procedure
Your parish or church will receive Mission Co-op collection envelopes direct from Overt Press. If you have any concerns, please contact the Global Mission Office. No missionary cause may use their own envelopes, collect any funds/donor information or solicit sponsorships. Checks from individual donors should be made out to the parish.
Proceeds from the collection are to be sent within one month to Global Mission Office Attn: Mission Cooperation Plan, 3525 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653. Parish checks should be made out to Global Mission Office, with MCP 2023 on the memo line. If individual donors make checks out to the collection, send them along with the parish check. Please use the yellow remittance card, which has been mailed to every participating parish and church. Note that the appealing mission cause receives 90% of the collected funds. 10% is retained by the Global Mission Office to offset the cost of facilitating these appeals. The Global Mission Office is not funded or subsidized by the Archdiocese of Chicago.
2023 Missionary Cooperation Plan
Map of Beneficiary Regions
Ad Gentes Missionary Congregation Society
Africa Faith and Justice Network
Apostolic Life Community of Priests in the Opus Spiritus Sancti (Holy Spirit Fathers)
Archdiocese of Camaguey, Cuba
Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore, India
Archdiocese of Tabora, Tanzania
Augustinians of the Assumption
Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga (Bannakaroli Brothers )
Bukoba Catholic Diocese, Tanzania
Catholic Diocese of Ifakara, Tanzania
Catholic Diocese of Kakamega, Kenya
Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans)
Congregation of the Mission Madagaskar
Congregation of the Mission Western Province (Vincentians)
Congregation of the Mother of Carmel
Conventual Franciscans (St. Bonaventure Province)
Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy
Dhaka Catholic Archdiocese, Bangladesh
Diocese of Aitape, Papua New Guinea
Diocese of Kohima, India
Diocese of Lucena, Philippines
Diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica
Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti
Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena Gusau, Nigeria
Ewaldi Children Education Foundation
Foundation for Children in Need
Friends of Lisi / Lideres del Siglo (Prelature of Nayar, Mexico)
Institute of the Incarnate Word
Instituto de Vida Consagrada Esclavas del Divino Corazon
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
Misioneras Carmelitas de Santa Teresa del Nino de Jesus
Misioneras de San Juan Bautista
Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit
Missionary Society of St. Paul
Monasterio de Hnas. Clarisas de Jesus de la Divina Misericordia
Mother of Perpetual Help Center
North American La Salette Mission Center
Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (Sisters of St. Michael the Archangel)
Pia Societa San Gaetano Vicenza Italia
Pontifical Mission Societies Uganda
Prelature of Esquel, Argentina
R. C. Diocese of Sivagangai, india
Roman Catholic Diocese of Butare, Rwanda
Saint Francis Xavier Lay Missionary Society
Seminario Missionario Arquidiocesano Redemptoris Mater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Servants of the Plan of God (Siervas del Plan de Dios)
Sisters of Jesus Good Shepherd "Pastorelle"
Sisters of Providence of Saint Paul
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus of Buea
Sisters of the Imitation of Christ (Trivandrum Province)
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ
Society for Faith and Children's Education (S FACE)
Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier (Society of Pilar)
St. Dominic Mission Society Dominican Friars, Province of St. Albert the Great (Central USA)
St. Peter's Junior Seminary, Tanzania
Tamilnadu Bishops Council Commission for Social Communications (Madha TV)