Our Needs

Operating Support

Maintaining and Expanding Missions in Areas of Poverty. With nearly fifty missions providing support to an estimated 10,000 new families, we use your gifts to help families find needed medical services, employment, educational and communication skills to build a future.

Improving Programs for Retired Sisters. Many Sisters who reach retirement age or can benefit from assisted living and nursing care require special individual attention. Your gift ensures that they have the care they need and that their skills in ministering to others are maintained.

Promoting the Need for Vocations. Critical to the advancement of the mission of service to others is reaching young women interested in our mission of prayer and teaching. Your contributions help our Vocations Director advertise, travel, educate and explore with young women and potential lay missioners if there is a calling to serve God as a Mission Helper.

Expanding Training and Catechetical Teaching. A gift to this area of need helps us focus directly on each Sister's continued training, education and research in the tradition of the Catholic Church to better engage the community, the neighborhoods and the individual in understanding the meaning of living a life in Christ.

Capital Support

Maintaining and Updating our Facilities. Since the Mission Helper Sisters have more than a 110-year history of going out among and living with the people, they have not used funds to build facilities throughout their areas of service. However, the Sisters do maintain the Mission Helper Center in Baltimore, Maryland, share and help support The Villa, a Nursing Residence for almost 25 of our Sisters along with the Sisters of Mercy, and have built small chapels in areas of poverty and need. Your gift to Mission Helpers can help us maintain our Center, support the Villa and our small chapels.