Since 2013, Sister Parish Ministry (SPM) has been creating opportunities for spiritual encounters in community between and among Jacksonville area mission travelers, volunteers stateside, and volunteers in the Dominican Republic (DR) who through their combined efforts provide service to poor communities in the Dominican Republic.

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In cooperation with four Catholic parishes in the DR, SPM serves the residents of several communities of Haitian descendants, abandoned by the governments of both Haiti and the DR, who can only survive in the world's poorest of the poor. Families occupy little more than single-room tin-roofed shacks with dirt floors often with no electricity, running water or sanitation facilities. Food, potable water, clothing, medicine, and work are in extraordinarily short supply or even absent.

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Together with our local volunteers, SPM works to provide access to schools for small children, medical care for young and old alike, basic shelter and access to small, modest chapels for the celebration of Mass. The Ministry also provides subsistence level food to the elderly and infirm, feeding more than 100 people monthly who would otherwise go without even basic food. SPM is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.