{"id":12882,"date":"2021-08-13T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:20:03","slug":"amecea-social-accompaniment-equally-important-says-secretary-general-as-amecea-develops-chaplaincy-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/amecea-social-accompaniment-equally-important-says-secretary-general-as-amecea-develops-chaplaincy-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA: \u201cSocial Accompaniment Equally Important,\u201d says Secretary General as AMECEA Develops Chaplaincy Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/em><\/p>\n

As the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) through its Pastoral department reviews the zero draft of Chaplaincy manual developed by a team of experts within the region, AMECEA Secretary General has reminded the developers of the need to emphasize social accompaniment which is as equally important as spiritual accompaniment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides spiritual accompaniment, we must be aware that social accompaniment of individuals and various groups in society is equally important as a chaplaincy ministry,\u201d Fr. Anthony Makunde told the team reviewing the zero-draft manual during the opening of a four-day workshop at Donum Dei in Nairobi, Monday, August 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we hear about the number of suicide cases increasing in the society as a result of various challenges people face, we get to appreciate the need for accompaniment,\u201d Fr. Makunde shared with the participants drawn from various sectors from Kenya and Malawi including youth representative, chaplain and experts from government and civil society.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cAccompaniment is wide and broad; it also involves issues of economic development. This tells us that through our efforts to come up with this manual, we shall help the society to grow into full maturity both spiritually and humanly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Secretary General reminded the team that their mission of developing the manual is \u201cequiv<\/p>\n

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AMECEA Secretary General Fr. Anthony Makunde<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

alent to planting a seed with hopes that it grows and develop fruits in the Church of AMECEA and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on behalf of AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo, the Child Safeguarding officer in the department Mr. George Thuku highlighted that the four-day workshop is aimed at reviewing the document developed in the month of May in order to improve it.<\/p>\n

He noted that the chaplaincy manual will be of great importance in the region since \u201cmany clerics are appointed to the position of a chaplain when they have no formal training and have no document for reference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis process is therefore to help us seal the gap and respond to the bishops\u2019 request after their 19th<\/sup> Plenary Assembly that the region needs a Chaplaincy manual,\u201d Mr. Thuku clarified.<\/p>\n

The zero draft has two sections with different chapters highlighting various chaplaincy ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA As the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12885,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions\/12885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}