Under the Cross

The second Sunday of the month after Mass a speaker will share the organizations mission, goals and programs,  in the Community Room during Coffee and Donut.

A service project for the Under the Cross partner will be offered quarterly during Mystery Monday (4^thSunday of the Month). Our goal is to learn about the good work happening around us, offer our time and talent in a service project at Annunciation or at the highlighted organization. A donation to the Under the Cross partner will be made to support their work at building the Kingdom here on Earth.

Under the Cross Ministry’s goal is to learn about the good work happening around us, offer our time and talent in a service project at Annunciation or at the highlighted organization. Each month we will also offer a donation to the Under the Cross partner to support their work at building the Kingdom here on Earth.
 

Current Under the Cross Partner: One Tree Planted. (April-June)

Their Mission:
One Tree Planted is an environmental nonprofit that is dedicated to making it simple for anyone to help the environment. Our simplified donation process and global reach has helped us build a movement of supporters who believe in the power of trees.

Our goals:
* Raise awareness about One Tree Planted during Coffee & Donuts Sunday.
* Raise money to plant trees through One Tree Planted all over the world.
* Plant a tree on campus at Annunciation. Date to be Determined.

2025 Under the Cross Partners
January-March- Missionaries of Charity
April-June- One tree Planted
July-September-Kiva
October-December-Toys for Tots

Year Round Partners:
Mission Haiti Inc.
Incarnation Food Shelf
Memorial Blood Center
Meals on Wheels
Loaves and Fishes
Tandem
Our Lady of Peace Home

Annunciation Church  Initiative-Claudia Murray Fund

More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.

We do this by crowdfunding loans and unlocking capital for the underserved, improving the quality and cost of financial services, and addressing the underlying barriers to financial access around the world. Through Kiva's work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care.

By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life.
100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans. 

Annunciation KIVA account

Make a loan, change a life.
With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.

Here is how this will work, for a donation to Annunciation Parish your donation will be pooled with other Parishioner's donation and loans will be made. You will be updated every six months about the status of our loans etc.

Our loans  will be focused on Women , in honor of Cluadia Murray a Annunciation School Alumna, a young  woman who passed way to soon. She was born in Columbia and was pationate about BIPOC issues.

Account Update as of 3/1/2025
129 Loans made
53 Countries supported. 
$3,225 in loans made

Questions:
Jimmy Dunn
Annunciation Director of Outreach & Community Life
jdunn@annunciationmsp.org