Mission Education

Mission Education

The Mission office at the Diocese of Austin strives to promote a passion for Missionary Activity through Mission Education throughout the diocese. Here, you will find some resources for continued education on Missions, our call to evangelization and more. 

If you are interested in learning more about Missions, or having someone speak to a group about our Missionary call, please contact Yolanda Sanchez at the mission office at (512) 949-2486 or via email.

Missio App

MISSIO is the official online platform of the Holy Father's own Pontifical Mission Societies that allows people to sponsor a fundraiser for an overseas Mission project or embrace an existing project located in some of the 1,100 Catholic Dioceses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. Platform users can also show support by donating directly to a project or sharing information about projects via social media.

The Missio App provides opportunities to get involved in missions through donations and education. 

Classroom Resources

• Mission Month (October) Prayer Service: A prayer service for a classroom setting to celebrate Mission Month. 
• Multilingual World Mission Rosary Page
• Mission Education Programs For Students: Curated by the Missionary Childhood Association-Archdiocese of New Orleans, this document contains multiple hyperlinks to lessons and activities for PK-8 from Maryknoll Mission Education & Animation and the Columban Fathers.
• Ten Mission Classroom Project Ideas:
  • Create a World Wall of mission languages. Words such as hope, charity, dignity, etc. Use the word list for discussions and writing topics.
  • Decorate a Mission Collection Box with illustrations created by the students of their Images of Mission Work.
  • As a class, compose a Mission Prayer. Suggest that the students add their own petitions. Pray the prayer daily.
  • Connect with an established mission to provide the opportunities for the children to exchange letters, drawings, and prayers.
  • Set up a Mission Activity Center. Include photos, maps, and artifacts from a particular mission. Provide materials for writing activities, cultural awareness, and related arts and crafts.
  • Investigate the needs of a particular mission and have the students collect the items. For example: school supplies, clothing, non-perishable food, etc.
  • During your school's Library Book Fair, have a table set up with books that may be purchased for a mission school or library.
  • Assemble holiday meals in baskets of non-perishable food. Include coupons or vouchers for hams and turkeys.
  • As a Lenten activity, have the students collect plastic eggs filled with small treats. These can be sent to a mission for an Easter Egg Hunt.
  • Invite Missionaries to the classroom to discuss their mission projects and real life experiences of mission work.

Youth Ministry Resources

Confirmation and Mission: Making the connection between the Sacrament of Confirmation and Missionary Discipleship

What would you do?-A Youth Ministry Activity presented by the USCCB. This activity presents students with different social justice-related scenarios, and requires them to work together to create responses.

Ten Youth Ministry Mission Project Ideas

1. Volunteer with a local mission organization.
2. As a youth group or parish, adopt a group of missionaries and sponsor part of their trip.
3. Clean the outside of your church doing yardwork, landscaping, etc.
4. Clean windshields of church member’s cars who might be present for other meetings and leave a note that they are loved.
5. Send notes to elderly or those in the hospital.
6. Write letters to missionaries. 
7. Invite a group of missionaries to visit your youth ministry and talk about their ministry (Examples: NET Ministries, missionaries that maybe making mission appeals in your parish or someone who has participated in a mission experience)
8. Pray for the World: Set up prayer stations in your gathering space. Each station can cover a particular area of the world or even a particular issue that people in the world struggle with (poverty, hunger, human trafficking, etc)
9. Go on a mission! Local or international, go and serve!
10. Spend time teaching and exploring the Missionary History in our church and world.