Page 10 - Catholic Extension Magazine Spring 2020

10 BUILD Mission Needs

GOLDENDALE WASHINGTON
Holy Family Parish, founded in 1884,
requests funding for a priest stipend
Alaska
for Father William Byron as he
provides pastoral
and sacramental
outreach to
parishioners,
many of whom
are suffering from
the economic
impact of a
decline in the
aluminum smelting industry. With
many parishioners now unemployed,
the funds will ensure the Church’s
care for its people.
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
The diocese
requests funding
to continue the
inspiring work TOMÉ NEW MEXICO
of its director of Immaculate Conception, built in
youth ministry, 1750, is one of the country’s oldest
Matthew Beck, churches and
who has served serves 10
the diocese since small Catholic
1996. He travels across 139,000 miles communities in
to awaken and foster Catholic identity
Caroline Islands the Rio Grande
among the diocese’s 10,000 young Valley. The church
people, reaching many rural parishes needs funding to
that cannot afford a youth minister. repair its aging
pews, floors and
wiring to better accommodate its
1,200 dedicated parishioners and to
attract new members.
Marshall Islands

STATES WITH CATHOLIC EXTENSION
SUPPORTED DIOCESES
STATES WITHOUT CATHOLIC
EXTENSION SUPPORTED DIOCESES

Samoa-Pago Pago

MISSION NEEDSMISSION NEEDS Hawaii