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Maryknoll Lay MissionersDEEPEN YOUR FAITH!
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS!

Join us to work overseas as a Maryknoll Lay Missioner.

Join us to work overseas as a Maryknoll Lay Missioner.Have you ever wanted to work in something that deepens your Catholic faith while you also develop your professional and personal gifts?

If so, we invite you to come work with us. Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Catholic community of lay, Religious and ordained people, including families and children. We participate in the mission of Jesus, serving in cross-cultural ministries in order to create a more just world in solidarity with the poor.

We live and work in 17 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. As a Lay Missioner you can use and enrich your talents in areas such as:

  • parish work
  • direct service to people with AIDS
  • education
  • community organizing
  • health care

Black Catholics in the U.S. have tremendous faith, wisdom and talents. Maryknoll invites you to share these gifts around the world. Maryknoll Lay Missioners also painfully acknowledges the structural sin of racism within our own institution, church, society, and world. This racism has granted privilege to some, while denying access and participation to others. Clearly Jesus' vision was different. We are committed to being led by the Holy Spirit to help dismantle racism in its different forms.

As a Lay Missioner, Maryknoll will prepare and sustain you in the following ways:

  • compensation to cover necessary expenses
  • excellent health coverage
  • language training
  • semester in residence at Maryknoll in Ossining, N.Y., for mission preparation

Requirements-

  • Active Catholic in the U.S. Church
  • Citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.
  • Able to make an overseas commitment for three and a half years
  • Be at least 23 years old
  • Spoken and written fluency in English

To find out more about Maryknoll Lay Missioners visit our website: http://laymissioners.maryknoll.org If you are discerning overseas mission, let us help you take the next steps in your decision making. We offer advice, guidance and options.

Regional Recruiter Contact Information:

East Coast Region
Ellen and Tim O'Connell
Philadelphia, PA
Toll free: 888-828-6623
timellen@members.mkl-mmaf.org

Midwest Region
Patty Driscoll-Shaw
Chicago, IL 847-841-1224
Midwest@mkl-mmaf.org

Western Mountain Region
Jim and Karen Halberg Weaver
Denver, CO
303-296-9480
halbergwever@yahoo.com

Northwest Region
Phil Brady and Mary Jo Commerford
Portland, OR
541-296-4648
missionoutreach@earthlink.net

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