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As Catholics, we're called to solidarity. At CFCA, we live out that calling every day in the U.S. and the 25 countries where we work. Invite a CFCA priest to your parish and find out how your parishioners can walk with the poor by sponsoring a child, youth or aging friend overseas. |
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Every weekend, CFCA priests travel to parishes across the country, celebrating Mass, preaching the Gospel and inviting parishioners to actively participate in the Gospel call to serve the poor.
After Mass, information about CFCA, and about specific children, youth and aging in need of sponsorship, will be available. Parishioners are invited to stop by the table for more information or to pick a folder for a child, youth or aging friend they wish to help.
All costs, including travel, are covered by CFCA, and no collections are taken. In addition, CFCA priests may take the place of a parish priest who is out of town, or assist him in his regular weekend Masses.
Read about CFCA's memberships.
“Anything that makes people aware of the needs of people is good. The CFCA visit helps parishioners focus in on what it’s all about. They learned that there are good, honest organizations doing charitable work among the needy. We aren’t all able to be out in the field ourselves so this is an excellent way to answer the Gospel call to serve the poor. And you commit yourself to sponsor immediately after Mass; it’s not put off for a collection next week. Personally, the visiting preacher allowed me to get away from the rectory for a while—and it was good for my 950-plus families to hear another voice.”
- Father Joseph Scanlin
Pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, Lebanon, Pa.
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Discover a personal way to respond to the Gospel call to serve the marginalized of our world |
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Develop a closer connection to the poor in economically developing countries and increase awareness of their needs, gifts and potential |
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Build a relationship with a child or aging person and encourage that person through prayers and letters |
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See a sponsored friend achieve his or her potential, live with dignity and participate more fully in community life |
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Join a grass-roots movement of humble people helping humble people by sponsoring through a lay-Catholic organization awarded the highest marks for stewardship by charity oversight groups |
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Bakari, from Tanzania, holds up a sign with the word "asante," which means "thank you" in Swahili. Sponsors receive photos of their sponosred friends annually and letters at least twice a year. |
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CFCA priests are available for all weekend services to assist or to fill in for an absent priest |
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The homily is tied to the weekly Gospel reading and the Catholic Church's social teaching |
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All costs, including travel, are covered by CFCA, and no collections are taken |
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We provide personal attention and direct benefits to children, youth, aging and their families so they may live with dignity, achieve their desired potential and participate fully in society. |
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We invite people of good will to live in daily solidarity with the world’s poor through one-to-one sponsorship. |
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We build community by fostering relationships of mutual respect, understanding and support that are culturally diverse, empowering and without religious or other prejudice. |
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Grounded in the Gospel call to serve the poor, CFCA is a lay Catholic organization working with persons of all faith traditions to create a worldwide community of compassion and service.
Read about CFCA's Core Values. |
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Emilienne from Madagascar |
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Read about CFCA’s unique sponsorship program grounded in Catholic social teaching. |
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"I would encourage anyone to get involved with CFCA. It is a great way to express the Catholic nature of our faith by linking up with a brother or sister in Christ in another part of the world. The CFCA model of one-on-one support and communication with a child or an elderly person or a seminarian in another part of the world makes us aware that we belong to a spiritual family that spans all the continents of the world."
Read Archbishop Naumann's endorsement letter
CFCA utilizes an efficient network of its own centers and collaborating partner organizations around the world to deliver personalized services and benefits responding to sponsored members’ expressed needs. We collaborate with both lay and religious persons and organizations to offer grass-roots, integral human development opportunities for sponsored members.
We partner with the following organizations and religious orders to serve childen, youth and aging, and to spread the exciting news of sponsorship:
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Brothers of the Sacred Heart |
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Double Joy Children's Farm |
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Missionary Society of St. Paul |
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Capuchins |
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Felician Sisters |
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Salesians |
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Dominicans |
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Franciscan Sisters |
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Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament |
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Dominican Missionary Sisters |
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Love and Mercy Coalition |
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St. Patrick's Foundation |
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CFCA, founded in 1981, is listed in the Official Catholic Directory. The listing is under Missionary Activities, on page 1601 of the 2007 edition.
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U.S. Catholic Mission Association |
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International Catholic Stewardship Council |
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National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry |
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Catholic Press Association |
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Christian Service Charities |
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The CFCA board of directors comprises lay people and clergy who share CFCA's mission. Meet the board of directors.
For more information about inviting a CFCA priest or lay presenter to your parish, e-mail us at usoutreach@cfcausa.org or call (800) 875-6564 or (913) 384-6500 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central time.
If you're a priest or parish administrator and would like to schedule a weekend presentation at your church, contact (800) 466-7672 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. |
