AMECEA Secretariat Conducts Capacity Building Workshop for Bishops
Workshop for Bishops
AMECEA Secretariat in collaboration with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has conducted another Capacity Building workshop for AMECEA Bishops. The training was attended by bishops from Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, South Sudan and Zambia took place in Nairobi beginning Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th 2016.08.05
Among the topics covered during the workshop which was facilitated by the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) included:
- Meaning and Importance of Strategic Pastoral Planning in the Church
- Investments
- Strategic Pastoral Planning Process, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Integral Human Development
- Leadership in the Church Institutions
- Social Pastoral Communications
According to Ms. Christine Mbugi Coordinator of AMECEA Capacity building, the attendance was quite low compared to what they had anticipated. She attributed this to the fact that the training was initially scheduled for June but was postponed due to unavoidable circumstance. As a result, some of the Bishops who were supposed to attend could not make it for the second schedule due to one reason or the other.
Despite the low attendance, the training was quite a success and resourceful according to the participants who spoke to AMECEA Online News. Rt. Rev. Moses Hamungole Bishop of Monze- Zambia, said that the training was a good opportunity to share, learn and discuss a number of issues pertaining to management of which they as steward of their various dioceses are confronted with.
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He emphasized that it came at an opportune time for some of them who are just coming in as Bishops, while a good number of them have had to learn the hardest way from experience. Nonetheless he said that the inputs were quite resourceful.
Bishop Hamungole’s sentiments were echoed by the new Bishop of Zomba, Malawi Rt. Rev. George Tambala who said that the topics were very rich in terms of resourceful information. He also appreciated the diversity of the topics as well as the facilitators who consisted of the clergy, religious and the lay people.
Bishop Tambala highly recommended the incorporation of the seminarians into the program so that the same knowledge is imparted on them who are prospective priests and stewards of the Church.
“It’s high time we brought in the issue of formation of seminarians. If we could find a way in which this program can embrace our seminarians then it would be very efficient,” he said.
By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News
