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Good Shepherd and Vocations Sunday

7 May 2017 Posted by Church, General News 0 thoughts on “Good Shepherd and Vocations Sunday”

Today the church celebrates the 4th Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday. In the Gospel of John we hear how Jesus, is the gate through which the shepherds go in to take care of the sheep. In the MCSPA we follow the spirituality of Christ the Good Shepherd in a double dimension calling others to leave everything behind and follow Christ, and feel compassion for those who suffer. Today also is vocation Sunday, let us pray for vocations for the Church and let us be active in promoting vocations to the priesthood and to consecrated life.

We would like to invite and encourage young people to follow the call of Christ in a generous and courageous way.

Don’t be afraid God is always faithful!

Fr. Angel Valdivia, MCSPA

Feliz Pascua!

14 April 2017 Posted by Church, Community, General News 0 thoughts on “Feliz Pascua!”

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Esther, a Role Model in Small Erus

5 April 2017 Posted by General News 0 thoughts on “Esther, a Role Model in Small Erus”

Small Erus is one of the places where the Missionary Community of St. Paul the Apostle is working. There, we have a Mother and Child Center and a Community garden.

Esther is a creative and very hard working woman who started her garden out of her own initiative. She was one of the women helping us everyday in St. Luke’s Mother and Child Center, cooking for the children, bathing them, etc. At the same time she started planting some small crops. As we saw her interest in gardening, we helped her to fence the plot that she was using and we installed a shade house and a drip irrigation system for her.

Nowadays, she produces different types of vegetables such as: spinach, onions, tomatoes, beetroot, Kale, local vegetables, water melon and sweet melon, etc. She already has a stable group of clients who are the teachers from St. Paul Primary School Riokomor, workers from Small Erus dam construction, the villagers from Small Erus,  Riokomor and the people from different organizations who normally pass by.

This garden made her to become a role model in her community and in her family. In addition, thanks to the harvest, she improves her family nutrition and she is also able to take some money home. This has influenced other mothers to start their own small garden in their houses.

The most important element is that she provides vegetables to the diet of the children in the Mother and Child Center and that has a great impact in their health, improves their eating habits and helps them to introduce new items in their daily meals.

All these changes in the life of Esther, her family and the community at large are possible thanks to the help of the benefactors that year after year support the Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle in their work. THANK YOU!

Eleni Tsegaw, MCSPA

 

Sonrisas y Lágrimas

24 August 2016 Posted by General News 0 thoughts on “Sonrisas y Lágrimas”

Entre sonrisas y lágrimas los habitantes de Muketuri y Mizan Teferi despiden a una misioneras y dan la bienvenida a otras…

En Julio 2016 se celebró la despedida de Sarai Zavala, misionera mexicana de la MCSPA en Muketuri, Etiopía, desde 2007. Saraí fue en estos años la encargada del Centro Educativo Materno Infantil San José de Muketuri, donde 320 niños reciben educación y nutrición. Muchos niños se acostumbraron a gritar el nombre de “Saraí” cuando veían el coche de las misioneras entrar en el Centro. También muchas mujeres han asistido a los cursos de agricultura y nutrición del Centro en estos años…

Las maestras y ayudantes del Centro organizaron la famosa ceremonia del café etíope para la ocasión; tristes de la despedida, pero alegres de que Saraí se queda en Etiopía, en la misión de Mizan Teferi. Han sido 9 años de trabajar y establecer una amistad con trabajadores, padres, niños …

Los demás trabajadores del centro, agricultores, los que cuidan las vacas y gallinas, vigilantes, quisieron celebrar también la despedida y mataron una oveja para la comida; se sucedieron discursos emocionados de agradecimiento y cercanía a Saraí y le desearon buen viaje y suerte para su nueva misión. Entre bromas le dijeron que sólo la dejaban marchar porque sabían que iba a ayudar a otros etíopes en Mizan Teferi…

También en Julio en Mizan Teferi despedían a Rosa Murillo y Adriana Chametla, después de 7 años en esa misión. Rosa y Adriana se trasladan a la misión de Andode. Hubieron muchos lloros de despedida, pero al final los bailes consiguieron levantar el ánimo. Todos echarán de menos a Adriana con sus cursos de agricultura y sus patos y gallinas… Y a Rosa por sus juegos con los niños..

A pesar de que los que han colaborado más estrechamente en cada misión, maestras, agricultores, padres, echarán de menos a las personas con las que entablaron una amistad y un proyecto común, saben que otros miembros de la MCSPA continuarán la presencia y el trabajo conjunto a favor de estas poblaciones. Cada persona, con su personalidad da su impronta en la presencia de cada lugar, y, contribuye al trabajo de equipo con trabajadores, padres, voluntarios, etc, que hacen que se vaya extendiendo la esperanza en que las cosas pueden ser mejor.

En estos centros son muchos los niños que han recibido educación preescolar y nutrición y muchas las madres que han aprendido a plantar huertos en época seca… La idea de que los niños pueden alimentarse mejor y crecer más sanos y que se puede producir comida en la época seca y reducir la situación de inseguridad alimentaria va calando entre la gente del lugar.

Lourdes Larruy, MCSPA

Comunidad Misionera de San Pablo Apóstol – Nuevo Grupo de Voluntarios Chilenos en Etiopía

15 January 2016 Posted by Community, General News, Mission, News 0 thoughts on “Comunidad Misionera de San Pablo Apóstol – Nuevo Grupo de Voluntarios Chilenos en Etiopía”

El día 7 de enero llegaron a Etiopia 19 voluntarios de Chile a colaborar por dos meses en las cuatro misiones del país: Angar Guten, Muketurri, Nyangatom y Mizan Teferi. Los voluntarios apoyarán el trabajo en las guarderías, programa de pozos y agricultura, aula con niños con necesidades especiales, centros de salud y en todo lo que haga falta. Hasta la fecha 89 chilenos han venido apoyar los proyectos de nuestra Comunidad, estamos muy contentos con su visita y valoramos mucho su tiempo y energía en pos de las comunidades con las que trabajamos.

Valentina Correa

Priestly Ordination of Wycliffe Ochieng

1 January 2016 Posted by Community, General News, News 0 thoughts on “Priestly Ordination of Wycliffe Ochieng”

On December 12th, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Deacon Wycliffe Ochieng was ordained to the priesthood at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle at Nariokotome Mission, Diocese of Lodwar (Turkana), northern Kenya. Wycliffe, who is 33 years old, is a member of the public association of the faithful Missionary Community of St. Paul the Apostle and Mary, Mother of the Church (MCSPA).

The ordination mass was presided by Rt. Rev. Dominic Kimengich, Bishop of Lodwar, who emphasized the tremendous work of the Community in the north-eastern part of this vast diocese in bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to the people of Turkana. He praised the number of local African vocations in the MCSPA and asked the faithful to support and pray for them.

In typical Turkana way of celebrating, the mass was very colourful with exuberant singing and dancing. The joy of the people could not have been more apparent! After the mass, there was food for all the people, who came from the different settlements by the lakeshore and the mountains, some a whole night’s trek away. There were visitors from Spain and the UK and also from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast where Wycliffe comes from.

The following day, Sunday 13th December, Fr. Wycliffe celebrated his first mass. The MCSPA asks that you keep him in prayer as he begins his journey as a priest in this mission land.

Fr. Francis Teo

 

Emergencia Alimentaria en Malawi

28 November 2015 Posted by General News, Mission, News 0 thoughts on “Emergencia Alimentaria en Malawi”

La Comunidad misionera de San Pablo Apóstol hace frente a una Emergencia alimentaria en Malawi. La MCSPA a través de la parroquia de Benga ha comenzado una campaña de emergencia para la distribución de alimentos que pretende paliar la hambruna que afecta la zona donde trabaja debido a las malas cosechas de este año. A través de la campaña de emergencia y con la colaboración de diferentes entidades internacionales un mínimo de 1700 personas recibirán alimentos durante 4 meses hasta que los beneficiarios puedan volver a cosechar alimentos de sus campos.

Manuel Hernández MCSPA

Outreach Program at Parola, Central Manila, Philippines

26 November 2015 Posted by Community, General News 0 thoughts on “Outreach Program at Parola, Central Manila, Philippines”

Every Monday and Wednesday 4 of our collaborators take the jeepney, the local filipino public transport, after their classes at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, to Parola, a sprawling slum area at the Pier District of Manila where thousands of families live in deplorable conditions.

After braving the traffic for hours in the heat and humidity, they arrive to a windowless chapel with a falling roof to wait for the children whom they teach Basic Education and English. With no fans still available and sweating profusely, the children run towards the Centre with a great excitement to learn. It clearly shows in their little faces that it is a day they have been waiting for – they are so eager to learn. It is a challenging task but the collaborators show diligence and patience with the children as they go through the lessons.

Learning and conversing in English, they build up confidence among these children, educating them in a positive way as they gradually become aware of their possibilities and passion for education.

Fr. Steven Ochieng

 

Health and Nutrition at Nariokotome

10 November 2015 Posted by General News, Mission, News 0 thoughts on “Health and Nutrition at Nariokotome”

Healthy mind leaves in a healthy body, so they say! This is what happens at St. Joseph Mother and Child Centre in Nariokotome Mission. The children attending classes everyday in the morning are given a healthy bowl of porridge before kick-starting their day in class. The program is meant to give them a balanced capacity to concentrate in class. The help from people of good will and our benefactors have seen the success of this noble work. We sincerely thank them for their efforts and continuous support.

Lillian Omari

A prayer for rain

1 October 2015 Posted by Community, General News, News 0 thoughts on “A prayer for rain”

On 30th Sept 2015 Fr. Avelino and Deacon Wycliffe, through the invitation of the village elders, went to Kokuselei for prayers on rain. It was such a wonderful celebration; real inculturation (a mixture of Catholic faith and Turkana culture). The prayers included marching to the top of the mount and invoking the intercessions of St. Scholastica (the patron Saint of Rain). After the prayers, three goats were killed and we had the Akiriket. That same night we had some rains in Nariokotome and light showers in the mountainous region of Kokuselei. It was a real blessing and we pray that God sends us more rains in this land of Turkana.

Deacon Wycliffe

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