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Let us preserve our fervour.
Let us preserve the delightful and comforting joy of evangelising, even when it is in tears that we must sow. May it mean for us ... an interior enthusiasm that nobody and nothing can quench ...

And may the world of our time, which is searching, sometimes with anguish, sometimes with hope, be enabled to receive the Good News not from evangelisers who are dejected, discouraged, impatient or anxious but from ministers of the Gospel whose lives glow with fervour, who have first received the joy of Christ, and who are willing to risk their lives so that the Kingdom may be proclaimed and the Church established in the midst of the world.

(Evangelii nuntiandi p. 80)

Evangelisation Department

Our Mission in the Department of Evangelisation:

To develop among Parish Pastoral Councils a greater understanding of their role as active agents of evangelisation;
To foster in PPC chairpersons a greater commitment to the Diocesan Vision of Church inspired by Vatican II and expressed in the PPC guidelines, the Pastoral Plan of the SACBC "Community Serving Humanity", and other relevant documents;
To motivate Parish Pastoral Councils to adopt in each parish definitive and concrete ways:
- Evangelising the parish community through ongoing faith formation for all;
- Reaching out to inactive Catholics and to the unchurched, especially through "Operation Andrew";
- Keeping in contact with parish groups which in the past have had training for Neighbourhood Evangelists (Operation Andrew), giving them further training and support;
- Drawing the attention of all PPC's and other groups/organisation to the "Three Priority Action Areas" of the SACBC(Pastoral Plan) and the Diocesan Focus for 2001 i.e. HIV/AIDS.
To further effective systems of accountability within the three-tier structure of Pastoral Councils;
To encourage, support and promote the various approved approaches and programmes, which have evangelisation or faith formation as their main thrust e.g. RCIA, ALPHA, Life in the Spirit Seminars, Bible Programmes etc.

Contact Regional Pastoral Council Chairpersons:

Central Region	Mr Lawrence Kingston
Northern Region	Mrs Elizabeth Martiny
Southern Region	Mr Zain Reddiar
East Region	Mr John Rahme
Far East Region	Mr Gerard Smith
West Region	Mr Charles Kitims
Soweto Region	Ms Elizabeth Ngudle-Maepa
Vaal Region	Cluster 1: Convenor: Mr William Tsheisi
	Cluster 2: Convenor: Mr Steve Jackson

Contact: Mrs Emily Morley

Chancery Office	Cathedral Place 3 Saratoga Avenue Doornfontein Johannesburg 2198 Private Bag X10 Doornfontein, 2028
Tel:	+27 11 402 6400
Fax:	+27 11 402 6406

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