A history of training lay people for evangelisation in the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe

Abstract

This article is about the urgent need to train lay people for evangelisation in Zimbabwe. The Second Vatican Council made one very strong point that the Church was not truly established and did not fully live, and nor was it a perfect sign of Christ unless there was a genuine laity existing and working alongside the hierarchy (AG 21). This paper, seeks to trace how the Church in Zimbabwe previously trained lay people to take part in the mission of the Church so as to develop ways in which Pastoral Training Centres could train lay leaders to animate local communities, take up lay ministries satisfactorily and move the agenda of the local Church forwards. This article relates the participation and formation of lay people for their mission in the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe.