Helping Children…

The Missionary Childhood -

For over 165 years, HCA’s children have been carrying out the mission of the Church, Christ’s mission.  Children in our country and children in countries all over the world – praying, sharing, learning, and loving one another as members of the Holy Childhood Association.

    What a wonderful revelation for children when they come to understand the meaning of their baptism!  You and I and the children – all baptized Catholic/Christians - called to be missionary, to reach out and share our faith and the love that Jesus gives us every day of our lives. 

  When we were in Eureka, California in July, on our annual mission experience with high school students and seminarians, a homeless man was surprised to see that we were a Catholic group.  He told Fr. Walsh that he thought Catholicism was dead and only Mormons and Pentecostals did mission work!  Our high school students had an opportunity to share their faith – and be a witness to that faith with a fallen-away Catholic.     

   It is so important that children be given the opportunity to make a special commitment in their missionary life - to take ownership of their call to be missionary – above all, while they are in elementary school. 

   By enrolling in HCA’s Membership Program, students become “ambassadors for Christ.”  They can learn more about the world around them through the newsletter, It’s Our World, and what they can do for their brothers and sisters all over the world. 

What happens to my dollar? ...

This module on our national website offers a simple explanation of where the money goes after it reaches our Mission office.  There are three ways to log onto the website:

www.hcakids.org

www.worldmissions-catholicchurch.org

www.givetothemissions.org 

Going the Extra Mile for Kids in Need of Jesus...

Information about this program can now be downloaded from the national world missions website under HCA.  (See website information above.)

Funds collected from this program are allocated to HCA’s International Solidarity Fund and get distributed for children in countries of greatest need. 

Other HCA Programs…. 

The Resource Guide explains all the programs and materials provided by our national office in New York, and made available through our office. 

There are three grade levels for the Membership and It’s Our World  program -- PreK-2, 3-5, and 6-8.  

New this year is an updated version of the “Hand of Help” envelope which can be used for contributions for the Membership program, or any other HCA uses you may consider.  These can be ordered free of charge. 

Also, again this year we are offering the “HCA Around the World” program kits on a limited basis free of charge for those schools or parish programs committed to using this wonderful geography lesson for the students. 

For Advent and Lent, the coin folders have been redesigned.   Please order only the quantity you need in order to save money for the missions.  There is no charge for the Advent and Lent materials. 

Find out more about Membership and other HCA and Mission
programs by contacting: 
       Miriam Heverline
       300 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, PA 18503 
       Telephone # 570-207-2259     FAX # 570-207-2268

       E-mail:  Miriam-heverline@dioceseofscranton.org