Twenty-four winners will be selected in the 2012-2013 Missionary Childhood Association Christmas Artwork Contest; their artwork will be available as e-greetings on our website for children (HCAKids.org) and will be displayed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. during Advent 2013 and through that Christmas Season. The official entry form may be found at HCAKids.org (soon to be MCAKids.org).  Please note: the entry deadline for this contest is extended to February 15.

To mark the 170th anniversary of the founding of the Missionary Childhood Association in 1843, two students will have their artwork chosen as “grand prize” winners. Those drawings will be published in a commemorative album, along with art created by MCA children from around the world, and presented to Pope Benedict XVI at the conclusion of the Year of Faith. The “grand prize” winning images will be featured on the 2013 Christmas cards of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States.

2011-2012 grand-prize winning artwork by Ally Fallon, Diocese of Bridgeport, CT.