October 2007
The International Catholic Engaged Encounter Board Meeting and meeting of
the regions will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada October 1st through 5th.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Peter and Paulette Amsden
2xpamsden@rogers.com
by the end of August to make your reservations.
September 2007
EAST ASIA: The Singapore Community will
celebrate 25 years of service on 16 September 2007. Singapore conducts 18
weekends a year with 30 couples attending each weekend. From 2008 Singapore will
conduct 20 weekends a year.
June 2007
ENGLISH CARIBBEAN:
The English Caribbean Region celebrated 25 years of Catholic Engaged
Encounter in their region at the recent regional meeting. Jose & Barbara
Salazar or Trinidad & Tobago and Fr. Frank Power of Antigua were selected for a
second three year term as regional coordinators.
January 2007
CENTRAL AMERICA and SPANISH CARIBBEAN:
The Dominican Republic hosted a successful Regional Meeting
in Santo Domingo in January. It was attended by representatives from many
countries in the region. They also discerned the new regional coordinating
team for 2007-2009. They are
Herbert and Monica Rubio and Father Marco Antonio Duran of Guatamala. We
thank the outgoing coordinating team of Cesar & Gilda Liranzo and Fr. Raphael
Cruz for a job well done.
CANADA: We are
pleased to announce that Fr. Tery Runstedler of London, Canada has taken the
position of International Coordinating Team Priest. He recently completed
his term as Coordinating Team Priest for Canada and now joins the International
Team. Thanks Fr. Tery!
December 2006
INDIA: Mumbai has
celebrated 25 years of giving ICEE Weekends. The silver jubilee
celebrations were held on the 10th. of December 2006. Almost 9000 couples have
made the CEE weekend during this quarter century.
October 2006
USA: The International Community of
Catholic Engaged Encounter enjoyed a fruitful and successful meeting in
Houston, Texas, USA. Three positions on the Executive Board were
selected for three year terms - Stephen & Claudia Schulz of the USA were
selected as Executive Coordinators. Roland and Ursula Sobatker and Fr.
Rohan Smutz were selected as the new Statistics team.
Francis & Annette Wattie and Fr.
Leonard Alfonzo will continue as Finance Team for a second three year term.
Additionally,
Cesar & Gilda Liranzo and Fr. Rafael Cruz were selected as Outline and Weekend
Resources Team to begin at the next International Board meeting in October,
2007,
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Tri Ministries News
The international heads of Engaged Encounter, Worldwide Marriage Encounter, and Retrouvaille have been meeting
for the past few years in an effort to improve relationships between the ministries internationally by spelling out a common
set of goals and objectives which point out that we are all equal from, and yet supportive to, each other.
To that end we have
designed a brochure for international distribution. Click on the word BROCHURE to view it on
line or to print out a copy.
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