Small Christian Community Model of Parish Church

A Case Study of Training SCC and Parish Leaders in Kisumu Archdiocese, Kenya

                                                                        By Alphonce C. L. Omolo           

Overview

In their declaration in the 1973 Plenary Assembly in Kenya, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) Bishops said:

“We are convinced that in these countries of Eastern Africa, it is time for the Church to become really ‘local’. We believe that in order to achieve this we have to insist on building Church life and work on the Small Communities”. (AFER 16/1-2, 1974, p. 4).

Indeed, in Eastern Africa people live, act, and associate on the level of smaller neighborhood communities i.e., rural villages, or urban estate communities. These integral community settings provide unlimited options for the Church in Eastern Africa to insert her life and work into the daily occurrences of the People of God…………………..Read More>>

 

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