Delivering food, shelter, and hope to the poorest of the poor
Transform More Lives
Monthly gifts are a simple way to make a BIG IMPACT.
Experience the Joy of Impacting Lives Every Month
Play a critical role in our long-term efforts to serve and empower the world’s poor and vulnerable in Christ’s name. Cross Mission Partners, our club of monthly donors, lift individuals and families out of poverty because their monthly gifts allow us to help where it’s needed most. As a Cross Mission Partner, you can empower entire communities to grow spiritually and economically through Christ’s love.
As a Cross Mission Partner, you can empower entire communities to grow spiritually and economically through Christ’s love.
Transform More Lives Through Monthly Giving
The regular monthly gifts from Cross Mission Partners allows our ministry to commit to life-changing projects and respond to urgent needs
SEE THE IMPACT YOUR GIFT CAN MAKE
How We Help the Poor
Cross Mission Partners make an impact across the globe.
Cross Mission Partners proclaim the Gospel of Christ by empowering priests, sisters and lay workers to serve the poor. Your gift is helping provide aid for the most urgent lifesaving needs of the poor and bringing them the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ.
No Gift Is Too Small
Cross Mission Partners Make a Difference
Becoming a Cross Mission Partner is a simple way to play a major role in providing regular support to the poor and vulnerable. Your gifts empower small Church-based programs and equip them with the resources they need to be extremely effective in ministering to the poor.
Your gifts go to where they are needed most.
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Fruits of Your Faith in Action
Immediate relief and long-term change happen thanks to YOU!
Nutritious
Food
One way you feed the hungry is by helping Cross Catholic Outreach ship Vitafood to countries in the developing world. It’s nutritious, delicious, and cost-effective — and it’s providing millions of meals each year. Your gift to the Annual Fund Drive helps us deliver even more.
Disaster
Relief
Beyond the hardships brought on by COVID-19, unexpected disasters like the recent Haiti earthquake or last fall’s Hurricanes Eta and Iota, mean heavy crosses for poor families in the developing world. But with your support, we can rush medicine, food, and other aid through to help them quickly and efficiently through our trusted in-country partners.
Livesaving
Water
Clean water and new houses at the Kobonal Haiti Mission are just one example of how your support changes lives of poor children for the long-term. Your generosity helped lift up some of Haiti’s poorest families recently: 253 people were provided with safe shelter and 4,449 people were blessed with clean water.
Stories of Impact
Nicaragua | A Foundation for Transformation
Zobeyda Vado in Nicaragua is a single mother of three children under the age of 12. Thanks to the support of Cross Mission Partners, the family recently moved into a new home, built by our friends at Rainbow Network.
House construction is one part of Rainbow Network’s broader effort of community transformation that relies on the enthusiasm and participation of families such as Zobeyda’s.
The home will lead to even greater transformation in the years to come for the Vado family — made possible by the generosity of Cross Mission Partners!
Haiti | A Way Out for the Vieux Family
The Vieux family lived in a mud-walled, dirt-floored hut that flooded during hard rain storms. Without electricity, their home was shrouded in darkness. There was no toilet or running water, and danger from outside elements never ceased.
The future of the Vieux family looks brighter. Working together with the local Catholic mission, Cross Catholic Outreach is answering the family’s fervent prayer for a small, sturdy house where they will be safe.
Our ministry is transforming the lives of desperate families such as the Vieux family through the combined monthly gifts donated by Cross Mission Partners.
Central America | Consecutive Hurricane Response
When back-to-back hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated Central America last year, Cross Catholic Outreach acted immediately. More than 5 million people were affected, including our Catholic ministry partners serving the poor.
In the days and weeks after the hurricanes, our ministry rushed urgent relief — including more than a quarter-million meals and medical aid items — and followed up with shipments of other critically-needed resources to help the homeless, treat the injured and restore lives.
We were able to quickly cover much of the unexpected cost of this relief effort using gifts provided by Cross Mission Partners! Because we can always count on these gifts, they allow us answer urgent needs.
Become a Cross Mission Partner Today
Cross Mission Partners receive this prayer journal, handmade by those we serve in Haiti!
Use it for reflections and notes to grow in your spiritual life. You’ll also receive a prayer request form to mail back so that we can pray for your needs. In effect, this creates a spiritual bridge to connect you to our sisters and brothers in Christ in the developing world!
Cross Mission Partners also receive a semiannual Mission Update with news, insights and information about the good work and accomplishments made possible by your support.
Every dollar helps us bless the least of our brothers and sisters throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Mexico & Central America and South America.
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Cross Catholic Outreach’s staff prays daily for friends of the ministry. Click below to submit your prayer intentions.
Our Commitment
We consider every gift we receive to be a precious resource from God. We direct every donation to its intended project, provide honest and accurate reports to our donors, and keep overhead costs to an industry low. We handle funds with utmost integrity and hold our ministry partners in the field to the same high standards by asking them to document costs and the impact of their outreach.
How We Serve
Rather than create new institutions to distribute aid, we support existing ministries and churches already serving the poor. In addition to being the most cost-effective way of helping the poor, empowering these ministries allows us to support the Church’s spiritual mission and its important position of leadership in poor communities.
More than 94% of all organizational expenses, including donated goods, went directly to programs that help the poor.
Audited Financials FY2020
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Cross Catholic Outreach
Our mission is to mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually for the glory of Jesus Christ. Your gift empowers us to serve the poorest of the poor by channeling life-changing aid through an international network of dioceses, parishes and Catholic missionaries. This cost-effective approach helps break the cycle of poverty and advance Catholic evangelization.
Proceeds from this campaign will be used to cover any expenditures incurred through June 30, 2022, the close of our ministry’s fiscal year. In the event that more funds are raised than needed to fully fund the project, the excess funds, if any, will be used to meet the most urgent needs of the ministry.
