Acquaintance and Cooperation
Acquaintance and Cooperation
All women’s work in our Church is currently proceeding in an individual manner or in separate groups that have no connection with one another.
And it needs someone to gather everyone together.
For example, there has been no one to gather together the female servants of church education, nor anyone to gather together the women working in social service. The same may be said concerning all the women working in the literary, scientific, and artistic fields, and the women working in the field of development and in the field of visitation ministry.
The first benefit of this gathering is acquaintance. Then comes the exchange of experience and information.
Thus, each person does not begin from zero, but rather begins from where others have reached, continues, and benefits from the experiences of others.
How beneficial it is to hold seminars, joint exhibitions, and listen to joint lectures on one subject.
And this may sometimes happen on the level of a district, or a small city. How beautiful it would be for it to be on the level of the diocese and then on the level of the entire Patriarchate.
Alongside acquaintance and the exchange of experiences, there is cooperation and joint work, which also leads to unity and the organization of efforts.
Who carries out this work?
The bishoprics can carry it out, and the Patriarchate can also carry it out.
The Pope has already begun the work by forming a Women’s Committee in the Patriarchate and providing a headquarters for it. It remains for the woman to continue her path.
It also remains for the Patriarchate to gather all these efforts, establish acquaintance among them, for it possesses the means for that, in terms of knowing the women workers, extending the invitation, and preparing the place.
Thus the woman stands at the beginning of the road and organizes her work in service.
And all cooperate together.
And competencies and capabilities can be identified.
For example, let us suppose that we want to issue a magazine for children’s ministry. At the same time, we do not have before us the competencies that serve in all fields of drawing, caricature, story writing, composing riddles, zajal poetry, and various forms of entertainment…
How then shall we serve?!
Would that we might keep a register of women’s competencies in all fields of service.
Then giving these competencies an opportunity to work and produce…
Many women present protests because the Church has not made use of their capabilities…
And the Church excuses itself by saying that it does not know these capabilities. And the excuse is unacceptable because it was possible for it to know…
The woman desires to serve, and the Church welcomes her service…
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