Mill Hill Missionaries are an international fellowship of priests, lay members and associates. Since its foundation in 1866
by Cardinal Vaughan of Westminster, London,
members have been serving the poor and destitute of the world, both spiritually and materially.

Today some 550 are still active in this service of love.

We have a generous group of people who have red boxes in their homes to save money for the A.P.F (Association for the Propagation of the Faith). This money is then brought into church in envelopes and given to the Sidesperson. Anyone wanting their box emptied can ring Gladys and she will arrange for someone to collect it. .

A Little more about Mill Hill Missionaries

St. Joseph's Missionary Society, popularly known as the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM),was founded at Mill Hill, London, England, in 1866 by Father Herbert Vaughan (later Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster) and represented one of the first conscious efforts of post-emancipation English Catholics to shoulder their missionary responsibilities.

It is an international Society of Apostolic Life and comprises secular priests and brothers recruited in its early days mainly from Great Britain, the Netherlands, the Tyrol and Ireland and in more recent years from the U.S.A., India, Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Congo and the Philippines.

In the mid-1960s there were around 1,200 Mill Hill Missionaries serving in Africa, Asia, Australasia and S. America. Its first mission was in North America among the Afro-Americans, a venture which eventually grew into an independent community, the Josephites. Today, there are over 550 MHM members and associates working in India, Pakistan, Eastern Malaysia, the Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Congo, Cameroon, Ecuador, Brazil, New Zealand (among the Maoris), Western Australia (among the Aborigines), the Falkland Islands and the Islands of the South Atlantic.

Among the Society's main missionary aims are the evangelisation of those poorest in the means of grace and as yet untouched by the Gospel; solidarity with the marginalised with a view to working towards a more just society; a concern for the integrity of creation; inter-faith dialogue; and assisting local Churches in their missionary outreach.

An important development since the early 1970s has been the collaboration of lay associates: single men, women and married couples, some hundred of whom have served - normally for a period of not less than three years - with MHM priests and brothers in overseas missions.

While the latter undergo a period of nine years professional formation, including two years missionary experience abroad, the lay associates, who already have completed their professional training when accepted, follow an intensive five months missionary orientation course after an overseas placement has been selected for them. They then enter into a contract with the Society for at least three years.