Our Outreach Priests touch the hearts of parishioners like you with real-life stories of suffering families in the developing world. With your support, we can bless them with life-changing aid and spiritual hope.
We work in partnership with church-based ministries and other faith-based organizations, creating an ideal synergy for the greatest impact. Around the world and with your help, we bring food, water, housing, education, support for vulnerable children, health care, agriculture aid, microenterprise, and disaster relief to the poorest of the poor.
Can provide 1,000 meals for hungry children and families. That’s just 7 cents per meal!
Can provide a lifetime of safe drinking water to a family of four.
Can help fund food, shelter and catechism for orphans and vulnerable children.
Can provide a lifetime of safe drinking water to 10 families.
Can help build a new home for a family in desperate need, changing their lives forever by providing shelter, security and hope!
Your gift today will help us meet urgent needs around the world.
We currently serve the poor in more than 32 countries around the world through partnerships with bishops, priests, and religious and lay workers.
Since Cross Catholic Outreach’s inception, we have lifted up an entire generation and many communities in more than 90 countries.
Clean water and quality medical care for the poor in countries like the Dominican Republic.
Cross International Catholic Outreach becomes a 501(c)(3) organization and begins providing safe housing.
Cross Catholic Outreach is overseen by U.S. bishops and supported by local bishops in the developing world.
From left to right: Jim Cavnar, Co-Founder, Cross Catholic Outreach; Most Rev. Joseph J. Tyson, Bishop of Yakima, WA; Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO; Most Rev. Stephen D. Parkes, Diocese of Savannah, GA; Michele Sagarino, President, Cross Catholic Outreach; Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, CA; Most Rev. Earl K. Fernandes, Diocese of Columbus, OH; Most Rev. Charles C. Thompson, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, IN; Most Rev. James R. Golka, Diocese of Colorado Springs, CO.
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.
Thank You for Your Special Commitment to Serving the Poor!
Donations from this campaign will be used to cover any expenditures for this project incurred through June 30, 2027, 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.
