Nairobi, 07 February, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The contemporary world needs “effective evangelizers”, Bishop John Mbinda of Kenya’s Lodwar Diocese has told officials of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the East African nation.
Addressing participants in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of PMS Coordinators drawn from Kenyan Catholic Dioceses alongside officials of the Commission for Missions and PMS Operations of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday, February 6, Bishop Mbinda effective evangelizers witness Jesus Christ even to the point of death.
“To be effective evangelizers of the modern world, we need to be witnesses to a point of martyrdom,” he said in his address at JJ McCarthy Centre of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN).
Witnessing the person of Jesus Christ entails “entering into his life, passion, death, and resurrection,” the Kenyan Catholic Bishop who serves as the Vice Chairman of KCCB’s Commission for Missions and PMS Operations said.
He emphasized the need for missionaries, who he said have to communicate Jesus Christ’s "life, passion, death, and resurrection to the world by living and not just saying it."
