MISEVI - Projects
5. Projects
All MISEVI's projects for 2002 are small steps to achieve the general objective of this Association that was created to sustain, help, support and provide coordination of the lay presence and work in the missions ad gentes confided to or animated by the Vincentian Family.
The MISEVI Coordinating Team, elected at the First MISEVI General Assembly in January 2001, suggested that during the period 2001-2004, they work to convert the challenges of the Final Document from the First Assembly into reality. The plan of this year, 2002, is a stage of this journey.
5.1. To deepen, apply and make known the important documents of MISEVI
We believe that the Spirituality Document is a basic tool for announcing, living and celebrating the gospel on the personal and community levels. For this, a simple edition of the Spirituality Document is coming out and soon we will have a wide distribution among the members of the Association, as well as others interested in the missionary theme.
We are in the process of revising the Internal Law. We already have edited the 5th text that includes the latest consultations and it will be sent soon to the participants of the First International Assembly to be voted upon and definitively approved. We hope to be able to publish and distribute it at the beginning of November 2002.
We have decided that the rich contents of the First Assembly presentations could be deepened. We want to reflect on them in order to concretize them, accept them and diffuse them as catechesis. With this in mind, we are in the process of working on a methodology and of looking for collaborators who can work in making them more catechetical.
5.2. To be creative and spread the spirit of MISEVI, to foster the necessary drive so that, in tune internationally, we will open doors to new realities and facilitate the incorporation of new members.
Little by little we are going to make contact with leaders of National and International branches of the Vincentian Family. Sometimes, despite these means, this communication is slow and responses are slow in coming, but we do not lose contact.
We know that communication between countries is important and necessary so we have also created a web site. This includes a section on formation that we try to update frequently and we are hoping to present it in several languages. For this reason, we created a forum section, but it is used little. Sometimes it is faster and more convenient to send the information directly by e-mail to those who are interested.
We maintain regular e-mail correspondence with the various countries where MISEVI is emerging in order to accompany their progress: Ireland, Taiwan, USA, Italy, Mexico, Columbia, Chili, Santo Domingo, Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines. We are in the process of doing all we can to enter into communication with South Africa and Indonesia.
We want to reinforce the presence of MISEVI through communication, especially with Vincentians.
5.3. To seek to create a solid, stable structure that promotes sustaining the social funds that are required for the retirement and cases of illness of our missionaries.
On this point, we are only working with the missionaries who belong to MISEVI Spain and with offers from a national plan. We have studied several possibilities for this and have chosen to create an individual savings plan for each missionary with more than five years of service on the mission. We are looking for different possibilities to supply this fund, beginning with commitments from relatives, friends and interested parties.
5.4. To facilitate and channel means of formation
A commission of the Team was charged with creating a draft copy that has already been presented. During this year we want to do a broad consultation of members with full rights for some corrections and additions and to approve the definitive Plan of Formation. It remains to resolve the study of how to diffuse it and implement it.
We have also put various articles on our web site that can be used for formation, reflection and dialogue. One can give an opinion of these in the forum section on the MISEVI web site.
