National and Mission Collection Resources
This information is intended for parish staff.
A small portion of the funds collected may be used for direct promotional expenses incurred by the Archdiocese of Seattle.
The campaign highlights the faith of Latin America and the many opportunities we have to share faith with them. We also recognize the tremendous benefit of having our Latin American brothers and sisters in the Church and the revitalization their fervor brings to the faith. In addition to offering our help and support to the Catholics of Latin America, we have much to learn from them.
Collection Weekend: January 18-19, 2025
Church in Latin America Collection Resources
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
A statewide initiative of the Catholic Bishops of Washington State, Pregnancy & Parenting Support (PREPARES) supports parish-based outreach to pregnant and parenting families of all faiths in building healthy support networks. By offering holistic, life-affirming resources, PREPARES provides for the emotional, material, and spiritual needs of families, from pregnancy to a child’s fifth birthday. This collection will help families across Washington build strong foundations for years to come.
Collections Weekend: February 8-9, 2025
Collection Processing: Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor do not need to be entered into your parish database. Do not deposit these checks into your parish bank account. These checks can be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services.
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
NORTHWEST CATHOLIC is the official publication of the Archdiocese of Seattle, mailed 6 times each year to every registered Catholic household in Western Washington. In addition to the print magazine, Northwest Catholic includes a news website, NWCatholic.org; a weekly email newsletter; and social media outreach on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Northwest Catholic’s mission is to promote the new evangelization and form disciples by proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. A percentage of this collection goes to the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Communication Campaign.
Collection Weekend: March 1 -2, 2025
Northwest Catholic Collection Resources (coming January 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
This Lenten program has a fundraising component to it, along with resources for prayer, fasting and learning. 75% of donations fund Catholic Relief Services’ agriculture, health and educational projects overseas. 25% is distributed as grants in Western Washington for local anti-hunger projects.
Collection Weekend: March 5 - April 18, 2025
Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Collections Resources
Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Grant Application: Application will be accepted December 2024 - March 5, 2025.
Catholic Relief Services - Rice Bowl
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Mandated by the USCCB, providing for Catholic Relief Services; USCCB's Dept. of Justice, Peace and Human Development; the Holy Father's relief fund; CLINIC; and USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services.
Collection Weekend: March 29 -30, 2025
Catholic Relief Services Collection Resources:
The Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Catholic Relief Services Collection
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
This Pontifical collection is for the support of the Holy Places, but above all for those pastoral, charitable, educational and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of their Christian brethren and of the local communities. Materials provided by the (Franciscan) Commissariat for the Holy Land each year are posters and a letter to pastors. Parishes are asked to request a Good Friday donation envelope in their packets from their envelope companies each year.
Collection Day: April 18, 2025
Holy Land/Good Friday Offering Resources: (coming January 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Peter's Pence collection allows local Catholics to join the works of the Holy Father in helping to relieve the suffering of the world's most vulnerable; victims of war, oppression, and natural disasters.
Collection Weekend: June 28-29, 2025
Peter's Pence Collection Resources:
The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops - Peter's Pence
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
The mission of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS) is “Serving those who serve”. The ministry of the AMS is to provide for the pastoral care of Catholics in the armed forces (at home & abroad), military academies, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and those working in civilian jobs for the federal government beyond U.S. borders – a total of 1.8 million Catholics worldwide.
Collection Weekend: July 5-6, 2025
Archdiocese for the Military Services Collection Resources (coming January 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Africa faces the economic and social hurdles of enormous debt, epidemic, severe poverty, and political unrest. In spite of these challenges, the Church in Africa has almost tripled in size in the past 30 years. However, it is difficult for the church to sustain its growth and maintain essential pastoral outreach. The Fund provides grants to finance pastoral projects including outreach programs, schools, evangelization, and education of clergy and lay ministers.
Collection Weekend: August 2-3, 2025
Church in Africa Collection Resources (coming January 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Right now, over 40 percent of dioceses in the United States are considered home mission territory because they are unable to fund the essential pastoral work needed in their communities. These dioceses face challenges due to priest shortages, lack of funds, remote geography, or impoverished parishes. Through annual grants, the Catholic Home Mission Collection funds catechesis, seminarian education, lay ministry training, Hispanic ministry and other pastoral programs. As a result of parishioners’ generosity, Catholic Home Missions impacts the lives of nearly nine million Catholics in the United States.
Collection Weekend: August 23-24, 2025
Catholic Home Mission Resources (coming in 2025)
The Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Catholic Home Missions
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Catholic Campaign for Human Development addresses the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and transformative education. National grants are awarded by the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on CCHD with the approval of local bishops. Local, smaller, grants are awarded by the Archbishop.
Collection Weekend: September 13-14, 2025
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Collection Resources:
The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops - Catholic Campaign for Human Development
National and local CCHD grant recipient and grant application information
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
National Catholic Campaign for Human Development Collection
The National Collection for Black and Indian people continue as the embodiment of the Church’s concern for evangelizing the Black and Indian peoples of the United States. The funds are distributed as grants to dioceses throughout the United States, supporting and strengthening evangelization programs with an emphasis on serving economically challenged areas within dioceses.
Collection Weekend: October 4-5, 2025
Black and Indian Mission Collection Resources (coming 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Mission Sunday is celebrated the world over. Remembering that we are baptized and sent as a Universal Church, this collection for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith ensures the work and service of the Mission Church, as it supports mission priests, religious Sisters and Brothers, and lay catechists who are Christ’s witnesses to the most vulnerable communities.
Collection Weekend: October 19-20, 2024
World Mission Sunday Collection Resources:
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
After decades of persecution, Catholics of the Armenian rite, the Chaldean rite, and the Latin rite have experienced a new era of freedom since Georgia became independent from the Soviet Union. With assistance from the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, Catholics in Georgia are able to rebuild churches, provide medical care for the
poor, and to pass on the faith to the next generation so that the Church can once again thrive where once it was persecuted.
Collection Weekend: November 29-30, 2025
Northwest Catholic Collection Resources (coming 2025)
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Each year the CCS Appeal for the Poor informs parishioners about the work of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services (CCS/CHS). CCS/CHS are our Catholic Charities in Western Washington. Every year CCS/CHS serves, on average, 100,000 poor and vulnerable people in Western Washington through more than 170 programs. This collection is used to support programs and services in your local area, and 92₵ of every dollar goes directly to serving those in need.
Collection Weekend: December 7-8 or December 14-15, 2024
Catholic Community Services Appeal for the Poor Resources:
Collection Processing: Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor do not need to be entered into your parish database. Do not deposit these checks into your parish bank account. These checks can be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services.
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Mission Cooperation Plan (MCP) is an annual program that gives mission causes an opportunity to educate about God’s work among the poor and to raise funds for expanding Church in mission territories. The MCP assists mission-sending societies in their appeals for funds and vocations and helps connect parishes to an individual mission cause. The MCP enables parishioners to hear of missionary and young church experience which is an opportunity that continues to help promote solidarity with the universal Church.
To arrange for an MCP speaker, contact: Chris Koehler, 206-274-3194; chris.koehler@seattlearch.org
Collection Processing: Please deposit all cash and checks into the parish bank account and record gifts into your parish database. By entering these gifts into the parish database, the gifts will be acknowledged on the parish year end donor tax letter. Even if the gift is not made payable to the parish it still can be deposited into your parish bank account. Please refer to this letter if your bank will not accept these checks.
Within one month of the collection weekend, please send one check to the Archdiocese for the total funds collected for this collection. Please do not include multiple collections in one check. Please send one check per collection.
Checks are to be made payable to Archdiocese of Seattle (or CCAS). Please include the collection name and parish ID in the memo line of your check. Checks are to be mailed to:
Archdiocese of Seattle
Attn: Accounting
710 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Checks collected for the Annual Catholic Appeal or Called to Serve as Christ Campaigns do NOT need to be entered into your parish database. Please just forward those checks directly to the Archdiocese of Seattle (710 9th Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2017).
Checks collected for Catholic Community Services, Prepares Collection or the Appeal for the Poor will be mailed directly to Catholic Community Services. Checks are to be mailed to:
Catholic Community Services
Gift Processing Center
PO Box 24842
Seattle WA 98124-9974
Due to the success of the Called to Serve as Christ Campaign, this collection is no longer being taken.