Catholic Mission’s School Program See how Catholic Mission can help your school with education and formation resources, as well as great ideas for fundraising!
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Who is Catholic Mission? Catholic Mission is the official mission aid agency of the Catholic Church in Australia and aims to reach out, give life and call all people in the world to faith, justice and love. Catholic Mission supports grassroots needs, identified by local Catholics in 1,100 dioceses across 160 countries, including remote Australia. These initiatives give people the opportunity for a full, enriched life—physically and spiritually— regardless of race, stigma, religion or gender. Locally and globally: • We answer the call to love God and to love our neighbour. • We work to establish the Reign of God. • We build communities of missionary disciples of Jesus who share their faith by proclaiming the Word, serving people in need, and acting for justice and creation.
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Contents Who is Catholic Mission?
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Professional Development and Adult Formation
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Workshops
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Catholic Mission Immersion Programs
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Advocacy
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Fundraising
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World Mission Month
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Local Diocesan Directors
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Additionally, a hard-working and highly competent team of Catholic Mission staff and volunteers across Australia delivers wide-ranging programs in mission formation, education and action, including fundraising, prayer and advocacy. From conferences, school visits and online programs to workshops, mission masses, advocacy and fundraising initiatives, Catholic Mission works to inspire in young and old the mission of Jesus Christ in the world. You’ll learn more about this comprehensive program within the pages of this booklet.
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Professional Development and Adult Formation Our professional development and formation services include a range of programs and learning experiences, each tailored to your organisational or team needs. We work in partnership with you to develop clear objectives and outcomes and we provide end-to-end program management: instructional design, materials preparation, delivery and evaluation. Our services include professional development; theological formation; spiritual nourishment and guided retreats; formation workshops and facilitation; team building; consultation; culture and change management for organisational mission; keynote addresses; conference emcee and facilitation.
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Our expertise is centred on leadership and governance, spiritual nourishment, formation for mission, development, aid and human rights. We work from a Catholic perspective, drawing on the Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching and the teachings of Pope Francis, using the frameworks of missionary discipleship, servant leadership and liberation.
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Workshops
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With clear lesson plans and visual stimuli, immerse your students in a reality outside their own and help them to develop an understanding of how children live in developing countries. Each workshop, which can be downloaded from our website, has direct curriculum links and concludes with suggested actions for individuals, classes or the whole school, as a way of mission formation and outreach. Look for these workshops on our website:
catholicmission.org.au/ educationformation/workshops • Know Me—K to 2 •D ramatic Pictures from Around the World— Years 3 to 6 •B ongo Flava—upper primary, with secondary version for students up to Year 12 • T he Haves and the Have-Nots—upper primary, with secondary version for students up to Year 12
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Catholic Mission Immersion Programs Catholic Mission’s immersion programs offer local Indigenous and international immersion experiences to your senior students and teachers. These programs provide an opportunity to view the world through the eyes of mission, justice and development. An unrivalled experience for young people planning their future, they can be designed as co-curricular initiatives or as opportunities for your teachers to increase their awareness of mission in the world today. Catholic Mission has more than fifteen years’ experience in facilitating safe and invaluable immersion programs, supporting schools to not only maximise the experience for the students and teachers who participate, but also to engage the wider school community of parents and friends.
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Exciting immersion destinations include countries such as Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Mongolia and Fiji to name only a few, as well as Indigenous communities right here in Australia. Catholic Mission also offers an Alternative to Schoolies immersion program for Year 12 students inspired to walk with and learn from communities whose opportunities are very different from their own.
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Catholic Mission conducted 18 immersions in 2014, with plans in place for at least another 30 immersions in 2015. Destinations include TimorLeste, Cambodia, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea.
Immersions cater to adults and students
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Advocacy Build your school’s Faith in Action opportunities by participating in Catholic Mission’s advocacy programs. With many of Catholic Mission’s programs dedicated to children, much of our advocacy work aims to raise global issues of concern for children locally and internationally. Since 2012 Catholic Mission has been a driver behind the Australian Coalition to End Immigration Detention of Children (ACEIDC). Along with seven other church and community organisations the ACEIDC has been championing the cause of children held in locked detention facilities by the Australian Government. Your school can get involved by taking a D4D (detention for children in detention), or by setting up your own ‘Free the Children’ cage with dolls in it. For more information go to: endchilddetentionoz.com.
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In addition, Catholic Mission is focusing its advocacy work for, and with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As a direct contributor to the Church‘s work in remote Australian dioceses, we continue to use our voice to support the first peoples of Australia.
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Fundraising Without the thousands of loyal donors who give generously to the work of Catholic Mission, we would be unable to give life and hope to millions of people around the world— including children. In Australian schools, the main way that students can fundraise to help children in desperate need around the world is by participating in Socktober, either during October for World Mission Month or at any other time throughout the year. For Socktober, students are invited as a class or school group to raise money by creating a fundraising activity based around socks, or a World Mission Month-inspired theme; and to ask family and friends to sponsor them, either online or through cash donations.
Socktober mascots Sockrates and Sally
Fundraising ideas include hosting a ‘Crazy Sock Day’; a ‘Rock Your Socks Off’ disco; completing a walk-a-thon wearing just socks; or even a ‘Sock-tion’, where the socks of well-known people, such as footballers, may be auctioned off. When your school fundraises for Catholic Mission, the money goes specifically to support projects that help children in need. Go to catholicmission.org.au/socktober for further information on Socktober, more sock-themed fundraising ideas and to download the many Socktober resources available.
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World Mission Month As you know, October is World Mission Month! Pope Francis, in his first World Mission Day message, wrote:
“ The strength of our faith, at a personal and community level, can be measured by the ability to communicate it to others, to spread and live it in charity, to witness it to those we meet and share the path of life with us … We are all invited to walk the streets of the world with one’s brothers and sisters.” (World Mission Day 2013)
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The month of October has been dedicated to reflecting on how we can participate in this mission of sharing God’s loving presence in the world. The World Mission Month resource is designed to encourage this reflection, learning, prayer and action. We understand that teachers know their students best, and that a range of differentiated resources supports them in meeting students’ diverse learning needs. What’s more, a range of resources and activities creates opportunities for students in the classroom: they can choose activities that suit their interests, abilities and learning preferences. The World Mission Month resource is designed with this in mind and is created by practitioners, for practitioners. catholicmission.org.au/wmm.
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Your Local Catholic Mission Diocesan Director Your local diocesan director and their staff work locally to ensure the formation programs outlined in this brochure are available in our dioceses’ schools and parishes. They also provide some unique activities and programs that are tailored specifically to your local requirements. Additionally, your diocesan director can draw upon expertise from Catholic Mission personnel around the country to help you provide opportunities for your students, staff and wider school community to live and lead mission better.
Local Diocesan Directors
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Adelaide Deacon Anthony Hill 08 8210 8199
Geraldton Mrs Tricia Rogers 08 9964 2716
Sale Mrs Susan Grout 03 5174 0587
Armidale 1800 257 296
Hobart Mr Rafal Kozlowski 03 6208 6236
Sandhurst 1800 257 296
Ballarat Ms Sue Searls 0409 401 329 Bathurst Mr Michael Deasy 0417 048 880 Brisbane Mr David McGovern 07 3336 9239 Broken Bay Ms Kathryn Endicott 02 9919 7800 Broome 1800 257 296 Bunbury c/- Mr Francis Leong 08 9422 7933 Cairns Mrs Anna Jimenez 0450 213 042 Canberra and Goulburn Mrs Catherine Ransom 02 6201 9834 Chaldean Eparchy 1800 257 296 Darwin 1800 257 296
Lismore Mrs Michelle Sullivan 02 6622 0407 Maitland-Newcastle Mr Mark Toohey 02 4979 1141 Maronite Eparchy Father Yuhanna Azize 02 9744 8514 Melbourne Mr Kevin Meese 03 9639 1344
Sydney Ms Kathryn Endicott 02 9919 7800 Toowoomba c/- Mr David McGovern 07 3336 9239 Townsville Mrs Pauline McGuire 07 4726 3253 Ukrainian Eparchy Arch Priest Michael Kalka 03 9320 2560
Melkite Eparchy 1800 257 296
Wagga Wagga Mr John Goonan 02 6937 0013
Parramatta Ms Kathryn Endicott 02 9919 7800
Wilcannia-Forbes Mr Michael Deasy 0417 048 880
Perth Mr Francis Leong 08 9422 7933
Wollongong Mr David Harrison 0449 716 363
Port Pirie Father Matthew Newman 08 8626 1025
Diocesan Support Director Deacon Tony Hoban 02 9919 7800
Rockhampton c/- Mr David McGovern 07 3336 9239
National Office Mr Martin Teulan National Director 1800 257 296
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