Vitality, articulation, enculturation and prophetic attitude in the mission
During the following days: 27th, 28th, 29th July 2011, the Marist Province of Santa Maria de los Andes welcomed the Mission Team of America Meeting in Santiago, Chile. The participants were: Brother Luis Carlos Gutierrez and Angelica Alegria (Arco Norte), Brother Valdicer C. Fachi and Mercia Procopio (Brazil), Brother Juan Ignacio Fuentes and Ernesto Reyas (Conosur) and Brother Joao Carlos do Prado (Secretariat of the Mission).
The main objective of the meeting was to reflect upon a Strategic Plan for the Team. We spent three days working very intensively and we finished with an excellent proposal for the Marist Mission in America.
The evaluation of the meeting was very positive and everyone was very much satisfied with the result. We were very grateful to the Province of Santa Maria de los Andes for welcoming us and for everything they provided for the meeting. We would like to thank more particularly Brother Antonio Peralta, Provincial and Brother Mariano Varona, Vice Provincial.
Below you will find the mission, vision and objectives of the Mission Team for the period 2011-2017.
MISSION:
The Continental Team Mission promotes a reflection about Marist Mission in America. It also articulates projects to give vitality and support to people in charge and animators of the Administrative Units trying to answer the calls of the General Chapter and the common needs of the groups.
VISION:
In 2017, we hope to have sufficiently contributed to the Marist Mission of the Americas giving to it greater vitality, articulation, enculturation and a prophetic character.
OBJECTIVES:
- To promote processes and spaces that favour evaluation, impulse of the mission and Marist works in America giving them vitality, better articulation, enculturation and a prophetic character.
- To promote a vision for the future in government teams of the Administrative Units keeping in mind and trying to answer the calls of God among children and youngsters.
- To contribute in the reflection and proposals of the structures to animate and give vitality to the Marist Mission in the Americas.
- To promote formation and updating of the animation and government teams in the different Administrative Units of the Americas to answer to the challenges of vitality and sustainability.