Mission Expo Melbourne

Mission Expo Melbourne, Nov 24, 2016Mercy in Action, November 24, 2016

Each year the Melbourne Archdiocesan Office for Youth organizes a Mission Expo which is held at the Cardinal Knox Centre, next to St Patrick’s Cathedral. It is organised to showcase a range of Catholic organisations that offer young people an opportunity to engage in Mission, both locally (in the midst of work, school and family life) and further afield such as a short term mission experience overseas.

Columban Fr Daniel Harding, the Editor of The Far East magazine and I attended the event and presented the works of Columbans. We promoted the Short Term Mission Experience to Chile, inviting interested candidates to take home the promotional material and consider this opportunity. A young man from Canberra, is currently participating in a Short Term Mission Experience in Santiago, Chile.

Many young people also signed up for the Columban E-News and were more than happy to take home a copy of The Far East magazine.

The Mission Expo was a great opportunity to network with the other 28 organisations that participated, including Catholic Mission and Caritas, as well as with the many young adults who attended.

Assunta Arena currently works at the Columban Mission Centre in Essendon as the Marketing & Communications Co-ordinator and is the designer of The Far East magazine.

Columban Exhibits at the Mission Expo, Melbourne

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participants at Mission Expo, Melbourne

 

 

 

 

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