Priest appeal for funds to embark on evangelism

The Parish Priest of SS Pater and Paul Parish, Okoyong, Mamfe Diocese, Rev. Fr. Gilbert Aurore Tuekam Nguegno, is appealing for assistance from Christians and people of goodwill to help the parish implement its 2014/2015 Pastoral Plan.

In an August 27, 2014 dated letter which Fr. Tuekam personally left in the L’Effort Camerounais newsroom, the parish priest says because of the present difficult financial situation the parish is facing financial problems stemming from poor alms and Mass offering, poor marking of contribution card and the fear of commitment from Christians, SS Peter and Paul Parish Okoyong is finding difficulties to implement its ambitious 2014/2015 Pastoral Plan.

The above-mentioned difficulties “--- make the life of a pastor a very challenging journey. And we are conscious that is what Christ is expecting from us. At the same time, we count on Divine providence to provide us with the means we need for evangelisation and we are conscious the Divine Providence will manifest Herself to us through your generosity,” Fr. Tuekam indicates in his appeal letter.

Apart from the traditional and sacramental parish activities like celebrating Mass and administering the Sacraments, SS Peter and Paul Parish Okoyong has its own proper projects to renovate and extend its presbytery, renovate its Catholic primary school, build a Divine Mercy Shrine and a water system.

To ensure its self-reliance as recommended in Ecclesia In Africa, the Pastoral Plan of Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province and the January 2014 Resolutions of the Mamfe Diocesan Meeting on Pastoral and Economic Strategies Towards A New Evangelisation And A self Reliant Diocese, it intends to open a plantain farm and an orchard, and start a poultry.

SS Peter and Paul Parish Okoyong is very strategic in Mamfe Diocese as it is the host parish of the recently created second Major Seminary of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, St. John Paul II Major Seminary, and the Faculty of Agriculture of the Catholic University of Bamenda, Cameroon, CATUC. It also hosts one of the oldest and well known Catholic College in Cameroon, The Queen of Rosary College, Okoyong.

You can contact the Parish Priest on 77 74 52 12 and 99 81 85 04.