Our Mother
of Perpetual Help Church held their Parish Assembly recently where the various
committees presented their plans for the year 2018.
The meeting
held on Sunday 12 November was led by Chairman Francis Lopez and attended by
Parish Priest Fr Joseph Stephen and Fr Paul Kee, Asst Parish Priest.
The format
of the meeting saw the various ministries evaluate their programs during the current
year and present their plans for next year 2018.
Several
ministries such as the Parish Human of Development Committee, Bahasa Malaysia
Apostolate, Chinese Apostolate and Catholic Charismatic Renewal saw a growth
and improvement in their ministries and have projected follow ups. There were a
total of 28 programs planned for the following year.
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| (l-r) Fr Joseph Stephen, Fr Paul Kee, Francis Lopez with Felix Nathan (facilitator) |
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| The Chinese Apostalate's action plan for 2018 |
Fr Stephen
in his address said the thrust of the diocese would be BEC, unity, formation,
internal human development, ecumenical religious dialogue, youth, family and
social communication
“These eight
themes will be present in the plans and programs we intend to carry out for the
coming year”.
He voiced
his concerns on some of the challenges facing the Parish especially the youth
group.
“We do not
seem to know how to handle this ministry. Whatever we acquired earlier doesn’t
seem to be working and becomes an endless challenge and is a struggle in the
parish.
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| The Catholic Charismatic Renewal choir at the Assembly |
However we mustn’t
shut the youth off but keep finding ways and means to respond and keep inviting
them as they struggle and discover their own faith in their own life
I hope the Parish will think of new ways and
ideas to reach out to them so that they won’t be lost”
Fr Joe
Stephen thanked the members for their time and effort to be present for this
Parish Assembly to share their insights, success stories and challenges.
“We are
collectively one people one Parish of different language groups but we are
trying to work together”
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| Fr Paul Kee and Fr Joseph Stephen presented a talk each. |
Francis Martin
said that he was happy with the assembly as the participants were interactive
and responded with constructive comments.
Earlier Fr
Paul Kee gave a talk entitled ‘Lay Ministry’ while Fr Stephen spoke on the topic “Mission”.
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| The Organising Committee for the Parish Assembly |
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