Missionary Cooperation Appeal
The weekend of September 19/20, 2026, we participate in the Missionary Cooperation Plan! Please place all donations in the designated envelope found in your packets, give in the office, or through OSV online giving. There will also be extra envelopes on the information counter. Thank you.
About Our Missionary: Fr. Judah Ben-Hur Pigon, MF is a priest of the Missionaries of Faith (MF). He will be at St. Blase Church in Sterling Heights, MI on September 19-20 weekend to appeal for the needs of the MF Missions in India, Myanmar, Samoa, The Philippines, and Vietnam, especially for the education, formation and maintenance of seminarians studying for the religious life and the priesthood. Please welcome Fr. Judah with generosity in your heart. Every penny goes a long way in the missions. Thank You and God speed!
How does this work? When a missionary comes to a parish for the Missionary Cooperation Plan, the gift you make does not go directly to this missionary or their congregation or organization. All the collected gifts are sent to the Archdiocese. The Archdiocese will then equally divide all the money collected from all the parishes and send that amount to the respective missionary congregations / organizations that have made appeals in the Archdiocese.
Why is it done this way? It is an attempt to be fair and just. Parishes come in different shapes and sizes, with different economic means. If one missionary went to several large, well-to-do parishes, he or she would likely garner significantly more economic support than another missionary sent to several smaller parishes in less affluent neighborhoods. So, to try and balance the pot, so to speak, all the money collected in all the parishes of a given diocese is pooled together and then divided among the various missionary congregations or organizations that have made appeals in that diocese. This is a greater expression of church unity knowing that we are all supporting together the many and varied missionaries and their ministries all over the world.