Our Story

In 2016, we brought 11 high school students on a mission trip to Mustard Seed Communities in Kingston, Jamaica. We traveled there hoping to serve and be a blessing for the most vulnerable. As it turns out, they blessed us in ways we never could have imagined! As our mission program expanded, this remained a constant experience. Our friends at Mustard Seed, despite their many challenges, radiate a joy that is contagious and transformative for our hearts. We stumbled upon a gold mine, a truth as ancient and as new as our Catholic faith: that the most vulnerable, those rejected by the world, are privileged channels of God's grace.

We felt compelled to find a way to bring the same transforming joy back home. From this desire, God provided inspiration for our outreach to those at Mustard Seed abroad, to our local high school and college students, and to those in need in our local community. Most recently, we opened Brother Andre's Cafe, a café and gift shop that employs adults with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities in our community. Your support enables us to continue serving our youth and the most vulnerable among us.

Encountering Christ Through Friendship with the Most Vulnerable.

Ministries of Move a Mountain

  • Brother Andre's Employees

    Brother Andre's

    An outreach of Move A Mountain, Brother Andres Café employees adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Visit one of our locations, downtown at Epiphany Parish, or at Assumption Church in Bellevue!

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  • Gift of Mary

    Gift of Mary is a Women’s Day Center in the heart of Pittsburgh that provides a safe place for long-term accompaniment of women experiencing homelessness. Staffed by our Gift of Mary Missionaries, the day center is a place of dignity, renewal, and rest for vulnerable women.

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  • Mission Trips

    We organize and execute mission rips to Mustard Seer Communities, a home for abandoned children with intellectual and developmental disabilites in Kingston, Jamaica. These mission trips have prove to be transfomational.

    Mustard Seed Communities

  • AT MUSTARD SEED: Serving the Vulnerable Abroad

    Mustard Seed Communities is a permanent home for abandoned children with disabilities in Jamaica. Our first mission trip was the catalyst for Move A Mountain Missions, and we continue to serve by fundraising, working on special projects, and ministering to the residents.

  • AT THE CAFE: Serving Up More than Coffee

    An outreach of Move A Mountain, Brother Andres Café employees adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). We currently have two locations, at Epiphany Church downtown and Assumption Church in Bellevue. Come visit and experience the joy and gifts of our team members with IDD!

  • AT THE HEART: Serving the Next Generation

    We bring Pittsburgh-based high schoolers & college students to Mustard Seed in hope that they will bring that missionary charism home with them to Pittsburgh. Through the Gift of Mary Mission Center, we also provide Urban Immersion Mission Trip experiences in the heart of Pittsburgh, opening their eyes to the vulnerable already among us.

 

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“It's amazing to see, we go to serve and help out the residents, but the reality is they do much more for us because they have a joy that is contagious.”

— Dan Gallagher

Move a Mountain Missions Co-Founder

“These young men and women are so impacted by the experience, their Catholic faith so enriched, they return with a new, giving spirit. So we decided to do what we can so more students can have that experience.”

— Father Chris Donley

Move a Mountain Missions Co-Founder

“For the first time in 16 years, I began to feel like I was slowly reaching an inner peace - I put my faith in this peace and trusted that if the Lord could bring me such amazing change in just one day, that there was more to come in my remaining days at Mustard Seed in Jamaica.”

— Rachel P.

2018 Misson Teen

 

How You Can Help

Your support is vital to our work at Move a Mountain Missions. When you contribute to Move A Mountain, you are not only supporting the most vulnerable — you are helping us move mountains!

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