MANNA works in partnership with the 3 dioceses:
Mozambique – Lebombo
Bishop: The Right Reverend Carlos Simão Matsinhe
The Diocese of Lebombo’s beginnings go back a long way to the 1890’s. It is located in the southern part of the country and is divided into 7 archdeaconries. Lebombo has 300 congregations, 55 priests, 4 deacons and 287 catechists (lay ministers) and like both Niassa and Angola, it is growing. It’s community development work comes under the banner of Anglican Social Action and is involved in education and health care. It has plans to build seminary to train more priests and grow the kingdom of God in depth and numbers across the diocese.
Mozambique – Niassa
Bishop: The Right Reverend Vicente Msossa
Suffragan Bishop: The Right Reverend Manuel Ernesto
The Diocese of Niassa, an Anglican diocese of Mozambique is vast. Located north of it’s sister diocese, Lebombo, it is divided into 6 archdeaconries: Cobue, Lunho, Lichinga, Milange, Rio Chire and Lurio. It is twice the size geographically of the UK and has 442 congregations, over 65,500 worshippers and 61 priests. Niassa Diocese has grown a vibrant and extensive community development programme which works with HIV, nutrition, agriculture, education, water and sanitation.
Angola: The Diocese of Angola
Bishop: The Right Reverend André Soares
The Diocese of Angola, part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is a very large diocese, encompassing the entire country of Angola. It is the newest of the 3 dioceses and is divided into four archdeaconries, Luanda, Lukunga Lozi (Songo), Nzadi a Lukiki and Uíge. It has a total of 63 congregations with 58,000 members. Like the dioceses in Mozambique, some of the churches are active in healthcare, education and community development. The Nora Sturges Health Centre in Lobito, established in 2003 is one of such projects.
Ecos da Palestra Espiritual sobre #Cura #Interior - A Caminho dos 125 Anos da Diocese
Cura Interior, um tema cuja reflexão deve ser contínua pois mexe com cada um de nós, de forma particular e com as nossas famílias no geral.
A Palestra teve como objectivo despertar nos presentes a necessidade de encontrar a cura atraves da renuncia verbal dos pecados, cometidos por nós próprios, pelos nossos antepassados e com vista a salvaguardar o caminho recto das gerações futuras, pois assim diz a palavra “Não as adorarás, nem lhes darás culto; porque eu sou o SENHOR, teu Deus, Deus zeloso, que visito a iniqüidade dos pais nos filhos até à terceira e quarta geração daqueles que me aborrecem e faço misericórdia até mil gerações daqueles que me amam e guardam os meus mandamentos”. Êxodo 20:5-6.
O Evento foi brindado com a presença de Sua Rev. Bispo Carlos, dos Delegados Episcopais de Maputo, Ven. Rogério e Umbeluzi, Ven. Machado e representantes de Líderes de Grupos Eclesiásticos
A irmã Helia David desejamos muita saúde e que Deus continue abençoando a si e a sua família e de forças para o seu Trabalho no Senhor pois cremos que através deste, as almas presentes na Paroquia de São Cipriano, saíram daquele lugar com as suas vidas transformadas e com a missão levar esta boa nova aos demais e de curar a si mesmas e as suas familias.
Através da #Cura #interior continuemos "semeando a Fe, Amor e Paz" nas nossas famílias.
More training ....this time in Lebombo!Terceiro Dia da Formação Continuada na Catedral de Maciene. Na fotografia o clero, Bispo e a Joaquina Gumeta, Chanceler da Diocese dos Libombos que veio dar um ensino sobre a Lei Canônica.
Training for the clergy and their wives is so important and so often there are not funds to enable this.....so great to hear that on 2-5 August, there was a diocesan retreat for Clergy and wives in Angola.
56 Priests, 17 Deacons, 41 clergy wives participated with speakers from South Africa & Portugal: Rev Dr. Isaías Chachine 'Dean of Uni of Cape Town' & Cónega Delene Mark, Representative of Hope Africa, Bishop Jose Jorge de Pina Cabral (Lusitanian Church, Portugal) & Rev Barros Pedro Banza, also from Portugal. Plus from Angola - Rev Dr. Mansita Sangi & Rev Simão Adolfo.
The topics they discussed included: Leadership, Ministerial ethics, Evangelization, Gender and Domestic Violence, Sustainability, Witness, Unity in Mission & Anglicanism.
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