The dioceses in the Ecclesiastical Province of Tororo will be participating in capacity building Workshop for the on-going revitalization of building the local Church around families living in Small Christian Communities (SCCs).
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Rev Fr Febian Pikiti |
The Workshop, which is taking place from 4th to 8thof May in Tororo, is supported by the AMECEA Pastoral Department in collaboration with the Uganda Episcopal Conference. The Workshop has attracted forty five (45) participants from Jinja, Kotido, Moroto, Tororo and Soroti Dioceses in Uganda.
Speaking to AMECEA Online News, The AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator, Rev Fr Febian Pikiti said that the Workshop of Tororo is aiming at reflecting on ways of promoting continued revitalization of SCCs with the context of fast changing realities in the AMECEA region.
Inspired by the theme: “SCCs Embracing the Word of God for Evangelization”, Fr Pikiti said that the workshop will look at the reality of SCCs in the diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Tororo, the challenges that are negatively affecting the mission of the SCCs, the need to motivate men and youth to be involved in the SCCs and above all to focus on the centrality of the Word of God in the life of SCCs. “Since the AMECEA bishops embarked on an ecclesial renewal of building the local Church on SCCs, the Church in the region has experience remarkable participation of the lay faithful through various ministries that constitute the Parish pastoral structures,” he said.
“When the Bishops AMECEA resolved to promote this ecclesial model, they envisaged the incarnation of the Church of the New Testament into the actual day to day life of the People of God,” he said adding that “The Bishops said that the Church needs to adopt a new ecclesial model, whereby the basic units of the Church are those natural and traditional small village communities which would provide an adequate milieu for the incarnation of the Church’s life and mission.”
Fr Pikiti said that through SCCs the Church will become truly communion of families that are self-ministering, self-reliant and self-propagating. The building of the Church around SCCs is not just an ecclesial model, but it is the way of being Church.
Since last year, the AMECEA Pastoral Department has been conducting similar works in the AMECEA Countries.
By AMECEA Online News Reporter, Nairobi