Last April 28 to May 1, 2014, Fr. Herbert Schneider, S.J., PJAA’s Executive Director, attended the meeting of the Development Officers’ Jesuit Conference in Asia Pacific (DO JCAP), held at Kingsmead Hall, 8 Victoria Park Road, Singapore.
The JCAP Development Officers gathered in Singapore from 28th April 2014 to 1st May 2014 for their annual meeting.
We welcomed Fr. Hyung-chul SJ from Korea Province, Fr. Vincent Dinh SJ from Vietnam Province and Karen Goh from JCAP who joined us for the first time. We shared our experiences of being development officers in our provinces, regions and missions. It was important for us to listen to one another on what we have done and the challenges we faced. Listening, sharing and learning from one another were a big part of our meeting. Fr. Jorge Serrano SJ from Rome joined us for the meeting. Workshops for budgeting, newsletter, goals & priority, communication and emergency relief cooperation were conducted. We felt very much like a community of JCAP development officers in our time together. Fr. Herbert Schneider, SJ from Philippines province has been elected to be our coordinator. During the days of our meeting, we were treated with delicious Singapore food. The lay collaborators from the organizing committee gave wonderful logistical support during the meeting. We are grateful to them.
