Nairobi, 18 February, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Officials of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Kenya have highlighted some of the challenges their apostolate entails, and what they do to address them.
In separate interviews with ACI Africa, the PMS officials serving in Kenyan Catholic Dioceses identified staff turnover, secularism, and language barrier as some of the challenges they face in their line of duty.
The relocation of PMS animators after having received training constitutes a challenge that the PMS Director in Kenya’s Machakos Diocese, Fr. Mark Mathina Kiteng'u, highlighted during the February 12 interview.
“After conducting workshops to train animators, some of them get jobs; others are through with their secondary school education system and they proceed to higher levels of learning. This forces us to begin the process afresh,” Fr. Kiteng'u said.
He also highlighted the challenge of secularism, with members of PMS and the Pontifical Missionary Children (PMC) getting attracted to worldly pleasures and leaving the groups.