Mission Appeal Weekend, July 20-21

The Mission Office of our Archdiocese each year invites a missionary group to share about their mission work in all the parishes. Next weekend, July 20-21, we will have guest speakers at all the Masses offering a special mission appeal for the church’s many-faceted missionary activities throughout the world.

Foundation for Children in Need (FCN) is a Catholic lay organization based in Arlington Heights, IL. Dr. Geetha Yeruva, Founder and President of FCN, is very happy to visit us and share about their mission work in the interior villages of India. FCN sponsors 2,500 children and college students. They have been responsible for building several schools, boarding homes, a community health center and two homes for the elderly. They provide free medical check-ups and medicine to thousands of needy people and children. In the past five years, 800 children born with cleft lip and cleft palate were helped with free corrective surgeries.

We welcome Geetha and encourage you to support FCN’s mission work generously. There will be a second collection taken up next weekend. To know more about their mission work, please visit: www.fcn-usa.org.