YOUTH SCCS: A Critical Analysis of How the Youth SCCs can be an Effective means of Evangelization in
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2004
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
In my first three years as a student in the Society of African Mission (SMA)
1995-98, I was involved in the weekend apostolate with the SCCs in my home parish, St.
Charles Lwanga in Kabwe, Zambia. My work involved visiting the SCCs and helping
them in anyway they wanted. However, I was intrigued to discover that in all the 30
SCCs I visited, most of the Youths and most of the Men were missing. During a couple of
occasions, 1 tried to ask the members who were present of which the majority where
women as to why there was an apathy especially among the Youths. The answer 1 got
was that 'the Youths of nowadays are just too difficult to understand. We have tried to
encourage them to come but all our efforts have been fruitless'. On one or two occasions,
I tried to engage my Parish Priest on the same issue but his response was that, 'the Youths
of these days have rebelled against the church. We just hope the Holy Spirit is going to
intervene soon'.
These responses never satisfied my whims. Therefore after four years, I decided to
revisit the same issue through this opportunity, which we have been given here at
Tangaza College. I was motivated to analyze critically this issue and find out what are the
main reasons, which make the Youths not to attend the SCCs. I chose the Youths because I believe that the quality of Church of tomorrow depends on the quality of the Youths of
today. This has been my main goal in this research; to try and go to the root causes that
make the Youths lose interest in participating actively in the SCCs and then try and offer
some suggestions on how this apathy could be alleviated.
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Youth, Evangelization