4938(II)_“Presence and the accompaniment of Salesians with youth through media tools”
Annual Meeting of ASC Coordinators
December 3, 2018
Thus Duc, Vietnam, 2 December 2018 -- Last Thursday and Friday, 29-30 November, 2018, ASC Coordinators of the Salesian Family came to join the ASC annual meeting at the new Salesian Provincial House at 31 no. 2 St., Linh Xuan Ward, Thu Duc dist., HCMC.
Also attending the meeting were the Vice Provincial, Fr Joseph Nguyen Van Am and the ASC cCoordinators of the Salesian Family: 28 SDBs, 27 Cooperators, 4 Past pupils and 4 FMAs.
Fr Joseph addressed and encouraged the participants to commit themselves to the field of social communication to be present to and accompany today's youth. The followingt talk by Fr Peter Chinh, the ASC Delegate in the Vietnam Province, was the main theme of the meeting: “The Presence and the Accompaniment of Salesians with today's youth through media tools”.
Starting from Don Bosco's involvement in working for the youth in his time, Fr Peter focused on the presence and accompaniment of the Salesians with today youth through media tools. This talk led to 2 group discussions: (1) How to use media tools at the local communities or Salesian presences (morning), (2) How to have ASC Coordinators of the Salesian Family work more closely together (afternoon). All participants were divided into 5 groups to discuss these two things.
On the morning of 30 November, 2018, the SDB Coordinators for the ASC continued the meeting to discuss 3 things: (1) ASC plans in each region and each community, (2) how to set up local ASC group including the local youth and lay people, (3) Training SDB coordinators in skills for working with the ASC members of local ASC groups.
For the first time, all ASC Coordinators in the Salesian Family attended the ASC annual meeting this year. The aim was to establish an ASC network and ways for networking in the Salesian Family in Vietnam. Also, with the support of the Province and ASC Commission, 11 ASC Coordinators from the North discussed and set up their own ASC plan, preparing them for founding a new delegation by the end of 2019.
