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| Fr. Jude Waweru, Outgoing Coordinator of AMECEA Justice & Peace |
AMECEA Secretariat Staff members on 19th September 2014 bid farewell to their colleague Rev. Fr. Jude James Waweru who worked as coordinator of AMECEA Justice and peace department for the past ten years.
Speaking during the farewell ceremony held in his honor at the Secretariat premises in Nairobi, the AMECEA Secretary General Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo on behalf of the AMECEA Chairman Most Rev. Berhaneyesus D. Souraphiel and on his own behalf expressed immense gratitude to Fr. Waweru for the services he delivered to the secretariat.
“All we are doing today is to tell Fr. Jude thank you very much. AMECEA community shall miss your experience, services, friendship, brotherhood and many other things that have been mentioned about you,” Fr. Lugonzo said.
Fr. Lugonzo said that priests are mandated to serve wherever their Bishops wish them to serve. He also thanked the archdiocese of Nairobi and by extension the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops for letting Fr. Jude serve the Church in AMECEA Region.
Also members of staff expressed their gratitude to Waweru whom they described as a team player, a friend and a keen listener whose presence at the secretariat will be greatly missed.
Fr. Waweru who was appointed to work at the Secretariat in 2004 said that during his time at AMECEA, he worked with various Bishops and three Secretaries General of AMECEA, who included Msgr. Michael Ruwa from the Archdiocese of Mombasa, Kenya; Msgr. Pius Rutechura, from the Diocese of Bukoba, Tanzania (currently the Vice Chancellor at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa) and then Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo from the Diocese of Kakamega, Kenya.
He thanked everybody whom he has worked with at the secretariat saying their contribution towards the success of the department of Justice and Peace cannot go unnoticed.
Fr. Waweru recommitted himself to continue with the good work wherever he will be appointed. “I believe that there is a lot of work in this vineyard of the Lord, it is just a matter of where you are called to do that work,” he said.
Source: Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Social Communications