{"id":5943,"date":"2014-11-26T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2014-11-26T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:15:30","slug":"missionary-congress-johannesburg-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/26\/missionary-congress-johannesburg-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionary Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/newsletter-south-africa-no-45-article-for-sap-blog.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5524 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/enlarge.png?w=212&#038;resize=212%2C300\" alt=\"Enlarge\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/enlarge.png?w=453&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/enlarge.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Michel Meunier<\/strong>, M.Afr<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>25<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 26<sup>th<\/sup> October 2014<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>On Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 4pm, around 250 people came from fifty (50) different parishes (out of 120 parishes in the whole archdiocese). Not bad, for a first time! But we got the quality, if not the expected quantity: we had aimed at five delegates from each parish, which would have amounted to 600! The M.Afr who took part were Jan DeGroef (Bishop), Didier Michon, Christophe Boyer, Martin Somda (stagiaire), Se\u00e1n O\u2019Leary and Michel Meunier.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>The AIMS of the Congress were:<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<ul style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<li>\n<address><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>to explore ways for us, the Church, to fulfil our vocation of proclaiming the Gospel \/ Mission<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>to move from maintenance to being on mission (enlarge our tent)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>to celebrate our baptismal call together<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>to take back to our parishes the motivation to move forward on mission<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/newsletter-south-africa-no-45-article-for-sap-blog.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">FULL TEXT PDF FILE<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5943 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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