Youth
leadership Development Programme at Cuttack
The
diocese of
Cuttack
in Orissa organized the follow up of the Certificate Course on Youth
Leadership Development programme at Buckley Chapel,
Cuttack
from 26th to 28th March 2008 to conceptually
and systematically train its young people for leadership.
The three days of training programme attended by 35 youth
leaders from different pastorates was intended to influence and to
call upon the youths to shoulder the responsibility of their local
churches. Earlier three
youth from the Diocese had been trained by the CNI Synod at
Nagpur
for fifteen days who went back and motivated the Diocesan leadership
to organize the similar kind of programmes so that more youth could
be trained.
As
the course content developed and manual prepared, the sessions were
based on understanding the system and the issues they will have to
deal with as Christian leaders.
Mr. Kasta Dip, Coordinator, Youth Concerns (CNI) facilitated
the sessions on Understanding Self, Group Dynamics, Leadership
Development and Communication Skills.
Others who facilitated different others sessions and Bible
studies were Mr. Suseer Biswas, Mr. Stephenson Das, Mr. Samuel
Somalingam and Rev. Ajay Kumar Patro.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Samson Das, Diocesan Bishop, inaugurating the
programme expressed his frustration and spelt out how the church in
Orissa, instead of becoming a worship place, has become a secure
place for reckless leaders with vested interests.
He challenged the delegates participated in the programme
from different pastorates to be a leader like Jesus who was more
like a reformer and revolutionist.
He was quoting the incident in the Bible where Jesus set the
doves free and turned up the tables of money exchanges in the
temple. The participants
were encouraged by the good-wishing presence of some local pastors
like Rev. Susanta Nayak, Rev. Lohar and Mr. B. D. Das.
After
the programme, Bishop Das commissioned the participants and sent
them off with blessings and good wishes as they planned to organize
the same programme at their local churches and pastorates.
Mr. Ganjan Sabar organized the whole programme skillfully.
