60th Annual Peru Mission Dinner
Our annual dinner will be held on Monday, October 13, 2025 at the Sheraton Hotel at Station Square.
Our 2025 Chimbote Mission Dinner honoring life – the life-giving, life-sustaining and life-affirming ministry of our Catholic medical missionaries in Chimbote, Peru
DATE: Monday, October 13, 2025
TIME: 6:00 pm Reception, 7:00 pm Dinner
LOCATION: Sheraton Hotel Station Square, 300 W. Station Square Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Our dear friend of Chimbote, Mike Clark, distinguished news anchor for WTAE-TV, will, once again, volunteer to be our dinner’s Master of Ceremonies for 2025.
My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:
I pray you will join with me on Monday, October 13, 2025, to celebrate our 60th Annual Peru Mission Dinner at the Sheraton Station Square at 6:00 p.m. as we continue to strengthen the Bridge of Love and Hope to our brothers and sisters in Chimbote, Peru.
Pope Leo, on the 9th World Day of the Poor said, “The poor are not a distraction for the Church. They are our beloved brothers and sisters… they put us in contact with the truth of the Gospel.” Since the early 1960s, our Diocesan Mission in Chimbote Peru has helped to keep the Pittsburgh Church rooted in the Gospel.
Come and hear the witness of two of our younger priests who had the opportunity to personally witness the incredible work of their predecessors in the Pittsburgh Presbyterate while in Chimbote this summer. Fr. Jeff Craig and Fr. Tom Kadlick will give us a reflection on the work we continue to support for the people of Chimbote through La Maternidad de Maria.
I look forward to celebrating with you as we together continue our support of “our beloved brothers and sisters” in Chimbote, keeping us in close “contact with the truth of the Gospel.”
Please bring a young friend, so that as we hear from our young priests, we may also participate in passing along the tradition of Pittsburgh’s support of the Bridge of Love and Hope.
As we serve in faith and charity, I am
Your brother in Christ,
Fraternally,
Most Reverend Mark A. Eckman
Bishop of Pittsburgh
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“Walking in the Footsteps of Saints”
Thanks to mission partners like you, in 2022, we were able to invest more than $200,000 in an Electrical Infrastructure Upgrade Project that included a generator and other critical upgrades. In 2024, again, due to your ongoing support, the board of the Chimbote Foundation approved an IT Renovation Project at an estimated cost of $500,000. As an example of why this too is critical, many of their current workstations are running unsupported Microsoft operating systems from the 1990s.