Missionhurst Employee Directory

The focus of our multiple works in Brazil center around the unique manifestations of injustice and exploitation there: crusading against corruption, prison ministry, providing economic alternatives to ecological exploitation, as well as addressing the effects of injustice on parishioners. Since 1966, Fr. Moise Tam Nkude has been leading a work of e... vangelization despite the great challenges of poverty there. The Youth of Light youth group builds young men and women equipped to bring the Kingdom of God into whatever spheres of life God calls them. In urban areas ravaged not just by poverty but constant violence, missionaries evangelize by walking alongside the poorest of the poor in every conceivable way, sharing the real dangers of their daily life. Left reeling after decades of poverty and major disaster, mountainous rural Haiti is now fertile soil for the work of missionaries who educate children, train lay catechists and Church leaders, and contribute to economic development. In a nation openly hostile to Christianity, the fires of revival has ignited a movement in the Catholic Church who now evangelize through dozens of small groups and minister to the material needs of the poor around them. The youth of Japan have become well-known in the world for struggles with nihilism, adrift in the modern world. But a unique youth ministry is connecting youth to a sense of purpose in service to the Church and the world around them. In villages without roads, water, schools, or clinics, native peoples struggle for bare survival. Missionaries work to create cottage industry so rural families will not just survive, but thrive. In urban areas filled with street children and surrounded by poverty, injustice and exploitation abounds. Missionaries provide refuge and hope through a special kindergarten for young children. A unique mission center, the Sunflower Childrens Center ministers to and advocates for abused and exploited children, while training psychologists and social workers in tools to address trauma. AIDS has ...Read More