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APIA Conference: Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2014
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APIA Conference: Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2014
John Walker MSC
For one week late July 2014, over fifty delegates from Korea, Japan, Philippines,
Indonesia, Viet Nam, India, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Union and Australia gathered in
Manado for the biennial APIA Conference; the theme, Missioning MSC into the future:
being MSC in our world today. Three concurrent conferences assembled including
formators, JPIC and the Brothers. After a week of deliberations reports were presented to
the Superiors from the various jurisdictions.
The Indonesian scholasticate and pre-novitiate were the venue for the conference; a lush
tropical campus forty five minutes from the city centre, and home to approximately ninety
four students. The hospitality shown by our Indonesian confreres was quite extraordinary
and the organisation exceptional.
This pictorial record is in part attributed to Joni Astanto MSC (Indonesia) together with my
own contribution.
John Walker MSC
APIA Conference: Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2014
The opening addresses day one.
Scholasticate and pre-novitiate.
Opening mass celebrated in the Manado cathedral.
Meal time.
The Brothers conference.
Happy hour conviviality.
Indonesias got talent!
St Francis Xavier minor seminary, Kakaskasen
John Peter (India) and Jommy (Philippines) sharing brotherly humour!
St Marys chapel in Kelong Garden, Tomohon
Mt Locon an active volcano
Culture night
Music overcomes the language barrier.
An Australian led liturgy
Yohanes Sujono MSC with scholastics
Closing eucharist celebrated in the Sacred Heart Parish church, Karombasan.
Presentation to Superiors; final day of the conference.
Group photos
Manado Bay
With Andreas Buarlele MSC
Time to say goodbye.