What is the single greatest challenge you face on a daily basis?
My direct answer to this question is: ‘to make the impossible, possible’. To see the land around us so fertile but having to till it and cultivate it without necessary machinery, is a great challenge. We are doing the little that is possible. The families around us cultivate their land just for their survival. Within our two parishes we have a secondary school, three primary schools and two nursery schools. To keep all the students motivated to complete their studies and to be able to pay all the staff their due salaries at the end of every month, from the minimum school fees that we collect, is a great challenge. To have decent chapels in all our prayer centres and parishes, and to pay all the 15 catechists who assist us in all the seven centres from the weekly church collection that is below thirty Euros, is a great challenge. But our God is a God of Surprises and He surprises us every day in many ways and He keeps us going in spite of all the impossibilities. With God’s intervention we are about to complete the construction of two chapels and our main Parish Church. To be able to send ten candidates for the Pre- Novitiate from our Aspirantate is, again, a sign that God loves our Mission.
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