this article, I picked up on the Diocese website. Perhaps we should make contact?
Whether or Kolping Youth: In Lingen-Laxten, Baccum wages and engage many groups in Uganda. For five years, there are close contacts to local Kitoba. The theme of partnership "Through faith and heart" says it all.
boy prevails visit residents This left its mark in Kitoba
: During her stay in the Emsland Kitoba young people visited with young Ugandans old and sick people in their huts.
"Everyone in our communities is to immediately know what is meant by Kitoba" Hans Baumann formulated the goal of his work. The volunteers in the "Partner Group Kitoba" knows that much still needs to be done for it. But exactly what motivates him this year, is still more to help the partnership between St. Joseph in Laxten , St. Anthony in St. Anthony Baccum and in Lohne with Kitoba. The more he says and his colleagues that the recent Kolping youth in their action and the Tannenbaum Kolpingsfamilie Baccum have collected and donated.
"Through faith and heart - a give and take": Under the motto of the community partnership. "We want our friends from Kitoba meet as equals," said community officer Stefan Honsel from Laxten. The financial support of one of them, but it is only a part. "First we want to win the hearts, who is donating his heart to burn for Kitoba" said Baumann.
stands in the foreground of the cultural and pastoral exchange. Honsel gives some examples: "We inform each other if the confirmation or a party is pending, and take this Events in all communities in the prayers. "The council speaker said that was prayed in the partner communities for a young man who had come in at a Kitoba accident. "Such information will be involved in community life."
A vibrant partnership requires a personal encounter. 2008, therefore, eleven members of the community in Uganda, last year 38 young people traveled to be there, accompanied by the pastor Martin Trimpe (Laxten and Baccum) and Reinhard Trimpe (wages), Stefan Honsel and catechist Petra Krull. They lived, worked and partied with and within the family - took part in a baptism of 20 children, visited with Ugandan Young elderly and the sick in their huts. The lasting impression was the overwhelming hospitality in Uganda.
The perspective has changed. "We are the givers - this was our first thought. But we were proved wrong, "said Hans Baumann, and tells of an impoverished woman who wanted to give the Germans an egg, even though she had only two. "We are also receiving and students," says Honsberger.
Young people are now the preferred, who carry on the spirit of partnership. "We carry that spirit by spreading information about Kitoba: in parish letters, exhibitions, community festivals, in church services. "
Kitoba is a place in Uganda, with about 20 000 inhabitants. The partnership with the communities of St. Joseph in Lingen-Laxten, St. Anthony in St. Anthony in Lohne Baccum and has its origins in World Youth Day 2005. Then 85 Ugandans from Kitoba with host families in Laxten, Baccum and wages were housed. Even a year later visited three families of their former host children in Uganda. This resulted in the impact of the intensive community partnership.
source Diocese of Osnabrück
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