Tangaza College

Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA)

Nairobi, Kenya

Final Annotated Syllabus of Two Credit Core Course, Two hours a week, Lecture Format,

        Pastorally Oriented (January to March, 2012).

Mondays. 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8: 30 to 9: 20 a.m. Hall.

Small Christian Communities as a New Model of Church in Africa Today (PTC418)

NOTE: This course is only offered in the Second Semester of the Academic Year (January to March). It is a Core Course in the Pastoral Theology Department of the School of Theology as part of the STB and BATh (CUEA) Degrees (Eighth Semester) and the MA Degree in Pastoral Ministry. There are a total of 33 class periods of 50 minutes each: 11 double periods and 11 single periods.

Required Reading

Textbook: Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment. Edited by Joseph Healey and Jeanne Hinton (Orbis Books, 2005 and Paulines Publications Africa, 2006).

Joseph Healey. Building the Church as Family of God: Evaluation of Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa. Eldoret: AMECEA Gaba Publications, Spearhead Nos. 199-200, 2011. Presently available in “Draft Form” as a photocopied booklet. Available online at: http://www.smallchristiancommunities.org/africa/africa-continent/183-building-the-church-as-family-of-god-evaluation-of-small-christian-communities-in-eastern-africa.html

9 January, 2012: Class 1: "Introduction to SCCs Course."  Opening Solidarity Prayer: “Prayer for Youth SCCs’ Involvement in Justice and Peace.” Theme of Pope Benedict XVI's message for the 2012 World Day of Peace celebrated 1 January, 2012: "Educating Young People in Justice and Peace."  Plan of the Course. The many changes in organizing our course mirror the life of our 110,000 SCCs in Eastern Africa. Expectations for the course. A new way of teaching about SCCs and a new way of learning about SCCs. Developing a “SCC identity” as a class. Using name Mwanajumuiya (member of a SCC) rather than “student” in class. The 51 Wanajumuiya come from 19 countries: 16 countries in Africa and Bangladesh, India and Philippines. Available print and electronic resources including the use of Moodle. Handout:  SCC Polls on our SCCs Website. Connecting to the other theology courses.  Connecting to our personal, pastoral, practical experiences in parishes and apostolic activities. There is no blueprint for building and developing SCCs. Spanish proverb: We create the path by walking. Reading and responding to the signs of the times. A concrete sign and priority in Kenya today (applicable to other countries in Africa): SCCs promoting peaceful elections in Kenya in 2012. Distribution of Textbook.  Explanation of the SCCs Course Paper (the one CAT -- Continuous Assessment Task -- 30 points of course grade) and the Final Written Exam (50 points of course grade).

NOTE: Each week the first period begins with the students being asked to share “what struck them”/”what they learned” from the assigned reading.

11 January, 2012: Class 2: “Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection.” Opening Solidarity Prayer: Calling on the intercession of our four Patron/Patroness Saints of the SCCs, our Ancestors in Christ. Modeling a SCC Model of Church by experiencing being a member of a SCC during the course. Dividing class into four SCCs after choosing Patron/Patroness Saints of the SCCs with their feast days: St. Josephine Bakhita (born in Sudan, died in Italy) – 8 February.  Holy Man Aelred Lacomara (born in USA, died in Kenya) -- died 14 September. Servant of God Maurice Otunga (born and died in Kenya) – died 6 September. Servant of God Julius Nyerere (born in Tanzania, died in England) – died 14 October). Importance of the Bible (our jembe). Bring the Bible to class. Lectio Divina. During the course we will have practical experience of different methods of Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection. 

            Final 20 minutes is modeling the Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections in our four SCCs based on the Gospel of the following Sunday (Second Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B. John 1:35-42).  Process: Read the Gospel the first time. Silence.  Read the Gospel the second time. Share Bible reflections: Bible—Life Connections that connect, relate and apply the Gospel to our daily lives. This experience will help the Deacons prepare their homilies for the following Sunday.

16 January, 2012: Class 3: "Types and Trends in Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa: Part I." Opening Song: “Bind Us Together, Lord.”  Touchdown period with examples of the deacons’ homilies. Survey of wanajumuiya involvement in the 14 activities of SCCs. Small Christian Communities as a New Model of Church in Africa Today. Small Christian Communities as a New Way of Being Church in Africa Today. Difference between a SCC Model of Church and a Small Group Model of Church.  Neighborhood (geographical), parish-based SCCs are a pastoral model of church and an instrument/vehicle/tool of evangelization. Comprise 95 % of the SCCs in the AMECEA (the acronym for "Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa" that is a service organization for the National Episcopal Conferences of the nine English-speaking countries of Eastern Africa, namely Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) Region. Other types of SCCs are called specialized SCCs that comprise 5 % of the SCCs in the AMECEA Region. Examples: Extraterritorial or floating SCCs in parishes; SCCs in schools (including universities, seminaries and houses of religious formation), training centres and hospitals; specialized groups (doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, youth); and small groups connected to international movements and organizations such as like Christian Life Communities (CLCs), Focolare, Neo-Catechumenate and the charism of various religious congregations. Explanation of the Pastoral Circle Process or Methodology of the Course (SEE, JUDGE and ACT) with concrete SCC examples on the local level.

Readings:

1.      “Foreword,” “Introduction” and “Explanation of Terms” (page xi to page 8 in Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment (SCCT).

2.      “Checklist of 14 Activities in Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa Today” (two page handout and also on the SCCs Website and on Moodle).

3.      “13 Steps in the Weekly Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa” (two page handout and also on the SCCs Website and on Moodle).

18 January, 2012: Class 4: "Types and Trends in Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa: Part II." Opening Solidarity Prayer: “For an Ecumenical Spirit in Our SCCs in Africa.” 18-25 January, 2012 is the “Week of Christian Unity.” Comparing 108 important characteristics or features of SCCs, 28 criteria of evaluation of SCCs and 14 Common Activities of SCCs. Practical Action: The class delegates several wanajumuiya to visit two different sick members.

Final 20 minutes is modeling the Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections in our four SCCs based on the Gospel of the following Sunday (Third Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B: Mark 1:14-20). Mention a word or phrase in the Gospel that strikes you the most (chambua maneno ya maana in Swahili). 

Reading: "28 Criteria to Evaluate a Typical SCC in Eastern Africa" (three page handout and also on the SCCs Website).

23 January, 2012: Class 5: "The AMECEA Pastoral Priority of Building Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa. Part I." Opening Solidarity Prayer: Acts of the Apostles 2:42-45.  Special Prayer for Justice and Ongoing Peace in Kenya. Report on the Africa Cup of Nations football (soccer) tournament where our class has three teams: Burkina Faso, Ghana and Zambia. Touchdown period with examples of the deacons’ homilies. Reports of the two class delegations that visited two sick members.  AMECEA Study Conference in 1976: “Systematic formation of Small Christian Communities should be the key pastoral priority in the years to come [in the nine countries] in Eastern Africa.” Two Stories/Case Studies/Portraits of SCCs in rural and urban Tanzania. Centrality of the Bible in SCCs and Practical Action. Why SCCs have been successful in some places and not in other places.

Readings:

1.      Chapter 14 (pages 99-105) on “Pastoral Involvement of Parish-based SCCs in Dar es Salaam” by Christopher Cieslikiewicz in SCCT.  SCCs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2.      Chapter 15 (pages 106-109) on "SCC Diocesan Training Team Reaches Out in Uganda" by John Vianney Muweesi and Emmanuel Mwerekande in SCCT. SCCs in Uganda.

Handout: Final Annotated Syllabus of Course.

25 January, 2012: Class 6. "The AMECEA Pastoral Priority of Building Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa. Part II." Opening Solidarity Prayer: Acts of the Apostles 4:32-35. Two starting points for Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections/Faith Sharing:

1.      “Deductive” (from the Bible or a Church Document to Life): the Bible (for example, the Gospel of the following Sunday). Reflecting on Africa’s Commitment one chapter per week for five consecutive weeks. Reflecting on a particular teaching of the Catholic Church such as Faith or Love or the Meaning of a Sacrament. 

2.      “Inductive” (from Life to the Bible): our daily life experience as the starting point of weekly Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections (especially through our critical concrete experiences, incidents, events, examples and stories). Two types:

a. Local human events/experiences in a SCC such as death, sickness, baptism, graduation, marriage, welcoming a new person, visiting the home of a person who is not coming to the SCC meetings.

b. “What are the different human problems in Kenya and the rest of Africa that we should reflect on in our SCC meetings in the light of the Gospel?” (based on No. 89 of John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa/The Church in Africa).

Final 20 minutes is modeling the Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/ Bible—Life Connections in our four SCCs based on the Gospel of the following Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B -- Mark 1:21-28) in buzz groups of two or three people each. Buzz groups are a participatory method or process of group dynamics.

30 January, 2012: Class 7: Powerpoint Presentation on “A Bird’s Eye View of the LUMKO Way of Being Church." Opening Solidarity Prayer: From Section 86 on “Lectio Divina” in The Word of the Lord. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI. Facilitator: Sister Ephigenia Gachiri, IBVM. Handouts of: “LUMKO Poster” (one page); “The Comprehensive LUMKO Approach” (one page); “7-Step Gospel Sharing” (one page); “Evaluation of 7-Step Sharing” (one page).  

Reading: “Timeline in the History and Development of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa Especially Eastern Africa” (nine page article that is available only on the SCCs Website at: http://www.smallchristiancommunities.org/africa/africa-continent/107-timeline-in-the-history-and-development-of-small-christian-communities-sccs-in-africa-especially-eastern-africa.html  

1 February, 2012: Class 8: “Further Discussion and Application of the LUMKO Way of Being Church." Opening Solidarity Prayer: From Section 87 on “Lectio Divina” in The Word of the Lord. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI.

Final 20 minutes is modeling the 7-Step Gospel Sharing in our four SCCs based on the Gospel of the following Sunday (Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B: Mark 1:29-39).

6 February, 2012: Class 9: "Promoting SCCs via the Internet. Part I." Opening Song: “Tazama, Tazama.” Touchdown period with examples of the deacons’ homilies.  Explanation of the “New Media/Social Media.” “The Priest [Seminarian] and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word” (Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for 44^th World Communications Day on 16 May, 2010). "Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age" (Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for 45th World Communications Day on 5 June, 2011).

Question: What are the four largest countries/nations in the world by population?

Answer:

1.             China

2.             India

3.             Facebook (over 800 million)

4.             USA (313 million)

Survey of student involvement in social networking and information websites. Online demonstration of the “Small Christian Communities Global Collaborative Website” and the “Facebook Page” on the SCCs Website.  SCC Poll. SCC Stories on the African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website. Creating the SCCs Stories Database. Text Messages of Daily Bible readings. Of the first 540 fans (or friends) on the SCCs Facebook Page, 79% are in the 18-34 year old age bracket. The majority of fans are from Kenya followed by United States, India, Philippines, Germany, United Kingdom and South Africa.  Four Online or Virtual SCCs.  Just as SCCs are a new way of being church, Online SCCs are a new way of being SCCs. Using Skype for an audio or video meeting of an Online SCC. Video Clips on YouTube.

Peter Kyalo presents:

1.      Christ the Teacher Parish, Kenyatta University Website (and the plan of eight SCCs of university students): http://www.kucatholic.or.ke

2.      Youth involvement in Online SCCs.

3.      Two excerpts from DVD Celebrating Service to Mission: The Maryknoll Journey (1911-2011 Worldwide and 1946-2011 Africa). Nairobi: Creativecamera Ltd, 2011.

Modeling the Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections based on the Gospel of the following Sunday (Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B: Mark 1:40-45). Read the Gospel. Silence. Post a Bible Reflection “live” in an Online SCC on the internet.

Special Assignment: Spend one hour on the internet studying the

Small Christian Communities Global Collaborative Website

www.smallchristiancommunities.org

8 February, 2012: Class 10: "Promoting SCCs via the Internet. Part II." Opening Solidarity Prayer.

Readings:

1.      Chapter 26 (pages 177-187) on "Promoting SCCs via the Internet by Joseph Healey in Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment.

2.      “Internet Resources for Course on Small Christian Communities as a New Model of Church in Africa Today” (one page handout and also on the SCCs Website and on Moodle).

Written Assignment.  SCCs Course Paper (the one CAT -- Continual Assessment Task) that is at least three pages single spaced or six pages double spaced. To be handed in and reported on in our four SCCs during the class on 28 March, 2012.  30 points of course grade.

Part I:  “SCC Practicum Write-up” (one or two pages) on your personal, pastoral, practical experience of the SCC Practicum. Use the "see, judge and act" process or methodology. Arrange the SCC Practicum on your own. Participate in a specific gathering/meeting/activity of a SCC in a parish or special interest group/apostolic group in Nairobi Archdiocese or another diocese in Kenya. Or participate in an Online SCC at: http://www.smallchristiancommunities.org/online-sccs.html.  Choose one of the activities of a SCC in the "Checklist of 14 Activities in Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa Today." Handouts: “Guidelines for Writing the Small Christian Communities (SCCs) Practicum Write-up Based on the Pastoral Circle/Spiral/Cycle” (one page). “Example of a SCC Practicum Write-up” (one page).

Part II:  Reflection (two or four pages) on a topic of your choice that comes from your experience and observations during the Practicum or from your other SCC experiences.  Examples: “Lack of Youth in SCCs.” “Tribalism and Negative Ethnicity in SCCs.” “How to Divide a Large SCC into Two Smaller SCCs." “SCCs and Inculturation." “SCCs Involvement in the Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012.” “Comparing Two SCCs.” “Specific Challenges in SCCs in Africa.” “A Pastoral or Theological Question Related to SCCs.” “Reaching Young People through the Small Christian Communities Global Collaborative Website and Facebook Page.”

13 February, 2012: Class 11: "SCCs Involvement in the Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012 on the theme Towards a Transformed Kenya: Let Light Shine out of Darkness. Part I.” Opening Solidarity Prayer: “Prayer for the Beatification of the Servant of God Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga” (“make your own petitions”). Panel and Facilitators: Representatives of the Kenya Episcopal Conference Catholic Justice & Peace Commission Office and the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya Justice & Peace Commission Office.  “Background of the Annual Kenya Lenten Campaigns.” “Introduction to the Overall Theme of the Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012 and “Week 1 (First Sunday of Lent – 26 February, 2012) on “General Elections: Our Country, Our Leaders, Our Responsibility.”  Facilitating “Train the Trainers” (TOT) Workshops in our parishes. Training SCC Leaders to use the inductive "see, judge and act" process/methodology of the Kenya Lenten Campaign. See also the important new resource: Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, Lent: Let Light Shine Out of Darkness… Kenya Lenten Campaign Training Manual for Small Christian Communities. Nairobi: KEC Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, 2012.

1.      Analyze and discuss the drawing (cartoon) on page 8.

2.      Read the story in Step One (“See”): “Another Season is Here for Songa Country.”

3.      Read part of the Situational Analysis in Step Two (“Judge”).

4.      Read the Gospel (Mark 1:12-15) and scripture commentary.

In our four SCCs answer questions 4 and 5 in Step Three (“Act”). Final part of class is short reports from each SCC.

Reading: Booklet and poster (English and Swahili) of the Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012 on the theme Towards a Transformed Kenya: Let Light Shine out of Darkness especially Week 1 on “General Elections: Our Country, Our Leaders, Our Responsibility.”

15 February, 2012: Class 12: "SCCs Involvement in the Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012 on the theme Towards a Transformed Kenya: Let Light Shine Out of Darkness. Part II. Opening Solidarity Prayer. Evaluation of the Monday Experience. How we can be animators of SCCs during the five weeks of Lent? How can these Lenten materials be helpful to the deacons in preparing their Sunday homilies?

            Recommended Reading: Healey, Joseph, “Small Christian Communities: Promoters of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace in Eastern Africa”  – Chapter 5 in Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator (ed.), Reconciliation, Justice and Peace – the Second Africa Synod,  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011 and Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 2011 (pages 59-70) especially “SCC Involvement in the Kenya Lenten Campaigns 2009 and 2010” (pages 62-66). To be posted on the SCCs Website.

20 February, 2012: Class 13: "Small Christian Communities and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa. Part I." Opening Solidarity Prayer: “Prayer of St. Francis.”  Explanation of the "see, judge and act" process or methodology through the example of St. Kizito SCC, Waruku, St. Austin’s Parish, Nairobi. Online Resource Materials. Handout:  Peace for Peace in Africa Prayer Card (English). Mwalimu Simon Rurinjah: “Strategies on How Small Christian Communities Can Promote Peaceful, Free and Fair Elections in Kenya in 2012.”

Reading: Chapter 16 (pages 110-114) on "Small Christian Communities Light Up Neighborhoods in Kisumu” by Alphonce Omolo in SCCT.  SCCs in Kisumu, Kenya.

Recommended Reading: Chapter 4 (pages 77-93) on "Can the Pastoral Circle Transform a Parish" by Christine Bodewes in The Pastoral Circle Revisited: A Critical Quest for Truth and Transformation edited by Frans Wijsen, Peter Henriot and Rodrigo Mejia (Orbis Books, 2005 and Paulines Publications Africa, 2006). Case Study from the Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya that documents how the communal use of the pastoral circle in SCCs can transform a parish. See also Parish Transformation in Urban Slums: Voices of Kibera, Kenya by Christine Bodewes (Paulines Publications Africa, 2005).

Hand out the form for the SCCs Course Paper.

27 – 29 February, 2012: No Class. Break Week.

5 March, 2012: Class 15: "Small Christian Communities and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa. Part III." Opening Song: “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” (“The Prayer of St. Francis”). Review of the literature of the First and Second African Synods. Analysis of SCCs in the Second African Synod that took place in Rome in October, 2009 on the theme "The Church in Africa in Service to Reconciliation, Justice and Peace." Statement of AMECEA Delegates on the “Centrality of the Small Christian Community (SCC): “We have experienced that a properly trained and led SCC adds great value to the promotion of reconciliation. This is because deeper biblical reflection and more regular use of the pastoral circle empower our Christians to engage effectively in the social life around them. Here formation in Catholic Social Teaching (CST) at all levels must be a priority.” See the Lineamenta including the 32 questions (2006), the Instrumentum Laboris (March, 2009), the Message of the Bishops of Africa to the People of God (October, 2009), the seven places where Small Christian Communities are mentioned in the Final List of [57] Propositions (October, 2009) and Pope Benedict XVI’s Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Africa’s Commitment (Africae Munus) promulgated on 19 November, 2011. SCCs as “a place for concretely living out reconciliation, justice and peace” and SCC members as agents of reconciliation, justice and peace. Highlights of the AMECEA Study Conference in July, 2011. Importance of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Hand in the form for the SCCs Course Paper.

Reading: Review the documentation on the 2009 Second African Synod in the “Timeline,” the Select Annotated Bibliography, various magazines and journals and various online internet resources. Get experience and practice searching online and in library resources. 

7 March, 2012: Class 16. “Review of the Important Obstacles to the Growth of Small Christian Communities in Africa and How We Can Overcome Them.” Opening Solidarity Prayer.

12 March, 2012: Class 17: “Participation of Lay People in Small Christian Communities in Africa. Part I.” Opening Song: “Iende Mbele.” Panel and Facilitators: Three lay people on the following topics: Rose Musimba (“Choosing and Training SCC Leaders”); Representative of the Kenyan Youth (“Promoting Youth SCCs”); and Simon Rurinjah (“SCCs and Evangelization”).

Final 30 minutes is modeling a special type of Bible Sharing/Bible Reflection/Bible—Life Connections in our four SCCs.  

1.      Identify different human problems in Kenya and the rest of Africa as illustrated in a critical concrete experience, incident, event, example, story from our daily lives. Choose one problem and discuss it thoroughly to understand it better.

2.      Choose corresponding/parallel passages in the Bible.

3.      Choose some kind of pastoral solution or practical action.

Homework assignment: Make a list of at least five different human problems in Kenya and the rest of Africa that we should reflect on in our SCC meetings in the light of the Gospel? Examples: the problems highlighted in the five weeks of the 2012 Kenya Lenten Campaign 2012. Research on the ongoing problems of tribalism/negative ethnicity, corruption and problems in marriage. Differences between problems in urban and rural areas.

14 March, 2012: Class 18: “Participation of Lay People in Small Christian Communities in Africa. Part II.” Opening Solidarity Prayer.

19 March, 2012: Class 19. “The Missionary Life and Outreach of Small Christian Communities in Africa and the Whole World. Part I." Opening Solidarity Prayer: John 20:21: “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me so I send you” (theme of 2011 World Mission Sunday on 23 October, 2011). How we can consciously animate SCC members to be missionaries and evangelizers. Practical. Pastoral. From the “Timeline:” The AMECEA Study Conference on “The Implementation of the AMECEA Bishops’ Pastoral Priority of Building Small Christian Communities: An Evaluation” took place in Zomba, Malawi in 1979.  One pastoral resolution stated: “SCCs are an effective way of developing the mission dimension of the church at the most local level, and of making people feel that they are really part of the church's evangelizing work.” In the POLL on our SCCs Website one choice is: "Proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ." John Paul II Parish Evangelizing Teams: “Arise and Evangelize.” Pope Paul VI: “Be missionaries to yourselves.” 2011 Mission Symposium at Tangaza: Opening talk on “Africans in Global Mission.” Story of Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: “It is good that we can be missionaries from Africa to the world!”

International character of Small Christian Communities including an analysis of the background of the 540 Fans (as of 25 January, 2012) on the SCCs Facebook Page. Examples of SCCs Twinning. SCCs’ involvement in the New Evangelization.

Readings: 

1.      Chapter 23 (pages 157-163) on "Reenergizing SCCs Twinning on the International Level" by Rita Ishengoma and Joseph Healey in SCCT.

2.      Chapter 24 (pages 164-169) on "Global Communion in the Face-to Face Level" by Barbara Darling in SCCT.

Recommended Reading: “Innovations and New Trends in Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa Today” by Joseph G. Healey. Hekima Review, 40 (May, 2009), 85-100. No. 10 under “African Continent” under “Africa” on Small Christian Communities Global Collaborative Website. Here

21 March, 2012: Class 20. “The Missionary Life and Outreach of Small Christian Communities in Africa and the Whole World. Part II." Opening Solidarity Prayer.

26 March, 2012: Class 21. “Fifteen Future Challenges and Priorities for Small Christian Communities in Africa.” Opening Solidarity Prayer: Think of one human problem in Kenya and the rest of Africa that we should reflect on in our SCC meetings in the light of one of the Gospels in Lent such as John 9:1-41 (Story of the man born blind).  Jesus said, “I have come into this world so that those without sight may see.” Explanation of the Final Written Exam. Three questions on the written exam: one required question and then choosing two out of four questions. Bonus Questions. Sample exam questions based on possible themes. Explanation of the Marking System.  Evaluation of the course.  

Reading: “No. 12. Future Challenges and Priorities for SCCs in the AMECEA Region”

(pages 96-100 in an online book Building the Church as Family of God Evaluation of Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa that is available only on the SCCs Website at: http://www.smallchristiancommunities.org/images/stories/pdf/spearhead_book_on_building.pdf

28 March, 2012: Class 22. Last Class. Presentation and discussion of SCC Course Papers in our four SCCs. The best papers will be posted on our SCCs Website.

April, 2012: Final Written Exam. 50 points of course grade. Opening Solidarity Prayer: Calling on the help of the First Small Community (Trinity) and the First Small Christian Community (Holy Family).

Resources

See the last pages of Joseph Healey. Building the Church as Family of God: Evaluation of  Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa. Under three categories:

1.      “Select Annotated Bibliography of Books, Booklets, Articles, Reports and Printed Materials” (85 entries)

2.      “DVD Resources” (18 entries)

3.      “Internet Resources” (19 entries)

Lecturer:

Rev. Joseph Healey, MM (Box 18 at Tangaza College)
Maryknoll Society
P.O. Box 43058
00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Telkom Wireless: 057-2522977
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