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18 December 2012

EAPI sets up Centre for Effective Mission

EAPI sets up Centre for Effective Mission

The East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI) is setting up a new unit to provide consultancy and on-site training programmes for local churches in Asia Pacific.  The new Center for Effective Mission will complement EAPI’s current formation and educational programmes in Manila, Philippines. 

The initiative for the centre springs from a recognition of the challenges local churches face in the fast-changing Asia Pacific region, and the desire to help them respond.  The centre’s services will be offered primarily to dioceses, religious congregations, lay societies and other Catholic institutions and organisations.

From 2013, the centre hopes to provide accompaniment in areas such as pastoral renewal, apostolic planning, leadership, networking and collaboration, governance and psycho-spirituality.  Projects will include working with dioceses in their pastoral planning processes and assisting religious congregations in apostolic discernment or restructuring.  The centre also aims to offer customized on-site training programmes by partnering with organisations in the local churches.  This will particularly benefit those who are not able to attend the longer residential programmes EAPI offers in Manila.

In addition, the centre plans to engage in research as well as animate greater networking in the church.  Expertise for its services will come from EAPI’s long-established network of resource persons around Asia and beyond.  It hopes to work closely with the Jesuit network in Asia Pacific.

To learn more about EAPI, visit eapi.admu.edu.ph.

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