ACWECA: Bishop of Ngong Visits ACWECA Secretariat
Bishop John Oballa with Sr. Bridgita Samba ACWECA Secretary General
Sr. Helen Kasaka
The Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) plays a key role in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through integral evangelisation in this region.
This was said by the bishop of Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Ngong Rt. Rev. John Oballa at the ACWECA Secretariat recently.
Bishop Oballa who was on a pastoral visit in Nkoroi Parish where the ACWECA Secretariat is domiciled, was accompanied by the parish priest of Nkoroi Fr. Boniface Kimondolo and his assistant Fr. Eugene Ekeya, both of the Order of Carmelites.
Welcoming the bishop, ACWECA Secretary General Sr. Bridgita Samba SSJ said the visit was very significant to the Sisters working at the secretariat. She thanked the bishop for his concern for Sisters living and working in his diocese.
She shared with the bishop the different activities that the Sisters at ACWECA are involved in, highlighting Leadership for Mission (LM), Strengthening the Capacity of Religious Women in Early Childhood Development (SCORE – ECD), Sisters Blended Value Project (SBVP), and Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), and Youth and Family as among the key programs of ACWECA. She also appreciated the pastoral care extended to the ACWECA Secretariat by the Carmelite missionaries working in the parish.
Rt. Rev. John Oballa said he is proud to have the Sisters in his diocese and acknowledged that the nuns have made it possible to evangelize the whole person through the provision of quality education, pastoral care, care of the most vulnerable children, and many other initiatives that they have initiated throughout the region.
