Misevi - Goals

3. Goal

Among all the documents, presentations, commentaries and suggestions along the way, the best way of expressing the true goal of MISEVI is to say: we want to encourage, facilitate, sustain and help coordinate the presence of the missionary work of Vincentian laity and their reinsertion into their place of origin after the missionary work. In accomplishing the actions indicated in the second paragraph of our Statutes, we propose these means to attain our objective, the presence and work of lay Vincentians in the missionary field:

3.1. To encourage:

the participation of the members of MISEVI in the missionary activities carried out by the various Vincentian and Church associations, especially those at the local level, both at the place of origin of those sent to the missions and the places of their missionary service;

the creation of activities that seek to awaken or develop a lay missionary vocation in the various Vincentian associations.

3.2. To facilitate development of the missionary dimension

By being a channel for the meeting between lay Vincentians who have a missionary vocation and the missions ad gentes confided to or animated by the Vincentian Family;

By collaborating with Vincentian Associations in the formation of lay Vincentians preparing to go to the mission ad gentes;

By seeking to establish contacts between persons or small groups who are beginning to develop their missionary life with Vincentian Associations having more experience;

By bringing together all programs and means of formation in order to diffuse them among all the associations of the Vincentian Family in the different countries, trying to foster a spirit of welcome, collaboration and mutual support at the concrete moment of planning this formation

3.3. To sustain: Our desire is to sustain each of the members, who, according to different life choices, are part of the association; to sustain the communities where they are inserted, the associations of origin that sent them, as well as other Vincentian associations. It is always necessary to look for new ways of support and to be creative in this, but in the least, we would like to offer:

Human support

Moral support

Spiritual support

Economic support

3.4. To coordinate:

By being a means of coordination of all the lay missionaries, contacting them, inviting them, and welcoming those who desire to participate in the Association and offering support to those who are part of the Vincentian Family but decide not to participate in the Association;

By sending information to the members of the various ongoing missionary communities about the projects and activities of other communities where members of the Association work;

By sustaining the active participation of its members within the coordinating structures of the Vincentian Family that is present in the mission places or by encouraging them to create them where they do not exist.