Zonal Meeting of the JPIC Coordinators SSpS

Zonal Meeting of the JPIC Coordinators SSpS

Thursday, 3 April 2008

The main topics of the meeting were:

- Discussion about the main topic of the meeting:
Perhaps Poland, Romania and the Ukraine – none of these units had a Sister participating in the meeting - could be encouraged to work in the field of interfaith dialogue.

- Problem in certain provinces with appointing coordinators or teams at all, in some provinces to find younger sisters for this service.

Suggestions: To invite younger sisters to the JPIC meetings of SSpS / SVD;
To get them involved in JPIC issues with their ideas;
The Provincial leadership teams should officially appoint some of
them for a JPIC team.

- Which new topics should be taken up by JPIC?

Suggestions: chapter priorities
more stress on the work with women

- Reflection about the successor of Sr. Benedikta Böckelmann:
Criteria for a Zonal coordinator of JPIC:
Suggestions: She should be a Sister working with JPIC issues,
able to coordinate,
have a certain knowledge of the English language.

- Question why not combine MA (Mission animation) and JPIC?

Information: It seems that various provinces do MA in different ways and it is then even more difficult to find somebody as a coordinator who is able to combine both tasks.

The minutes were taken by Sr. Katarina Florková, finalized by Sr. Simone Petra Hanel