INSPIRATIONAL WORDS FROM THE ASSEMBLY

Today Thursday 22^nd October 2015, we have continue with  our sessions using the Appreciative Discernment Theory. 

The morning session that was rather moving produced a lot of “Inspirational words from the Assembly” as follows:

• “What do you fear?”
• “ I managed to conquer my fears, and I went into the mission.”
• “ Being a missionary of Africa entails a risk.”
• They told me you cannot manage because you have no money, no car, you don’t have a Ph.D, but I believed in myselfI made it.”
• “The question you  need to ask yourself is “ What can I do for my society and not what can the society do for me.”
• “Let us give space to each other old and new.”
• “I heard a lot of negativity about Poland, about Katakwi  but I overcame and went forward.”
• “Mission is believing in God and in myself as well.”
• “I got support from confreres or community and the people I served.”
• “I took the drink as part of my integration into a cultural setting.”
• “I go into  the mission with God, and prayer is the engine of my mission.”
• “I believe in my giftedness”
• “We want to discern a dream or vision for the future that stretches us beyond the good that is already present.”
• “As missionaries of Africa we accept the responsibility  to be co-creators of our communities.” ( Pre-Capitular Doc from General Council  Rome).
• “What are we doing?”
• “We need to explore the world behind the image.”
• “You cant  ask your grandmother to run the marathon.”
• “As missionaries of Africa we are trained to discern,  to work, to pray and to live together like a family.”
• “Animals have no images but they organize themselves and work well.”
• “In order to relate well with one another in a healthy and mature way we need self-awareness.”
• “Without the sense of universality the church will be no longer a church.”
• “Without a cross the church become  a supermarket.”         

To all the members of the Pre-Chapter in EAP gathering in Kampala Thanks!

Compiled by Fr. Baptiste Regina Mapunda, M.Afr.