MACC has received a grant of $6,290,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. for Ministry in Rural Areas and Small Towns.
SAN ANTONIO – The Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) is excited to share with you that it has received a grant of $6,290,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Ministry in Rural Areas and Small Towns Initiative. The grant will support MACC’s project Caminando Juntos: Accompanying Rural and Small-Town Ministry Leaders, an initiative designed to provide resources to help churches in rural areas and small towns enhance the vitality of their ministries and strengthen the leadership of pastors and lay leaders who guide them.
The Caminando Juntos project will focus on strengthening and expanding the outreach of up to twelve Roman Catholic dioceses in rural and small-town areas in the states of Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and others. The project’s central goal is to build local capacity for effective ministry in small-town and rural-serving parishes, with a particular emphasis on developing Hispanic Ministry, young adults, and lay pastoral leaders.
For more on this grant, please click here for the full press release.
