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Blessed Anuarite at Agoe-Assiyeye

Lome, Togo, West Africa

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Our Sister Parish - Blessed Anuarite at Agoe-Assiyeye Who is Blessed Anuarite? Click here The parish is located in a semi-rural zone in the northern suburb of Lome the capital of Togo, and consists of four groups totaling 6,000 parishioners strong. The pastoral care is led by two priests. The pastoral parish council is composed of lay people, and there are several associations and movements of ladies groups, youth groups, and widows. The parish has an Organization of Charity for Inte­gral Development concerned with helping the deprived and disenfranchised equivalent to CARITAS. The parish is a large work-in-progress and is very happy and excited to be­come friends in Christ with Our Lady of the Meadows.

News   3/13/2009 Letter and DVD arrive.   3/10/2009 Our future plans for Our Sister Parish include, Each committee at OLM will be preparing a packet to send to Togo regarding what they do and how they contribute to the parish Pictures, brief summary, anything they can think of to send that might be interesting and fun as well Peace & Justice will be the first committee to send a packet, we plan to include Pictures of Our Lady of the Meadows, the congregation, Easter & Palm Sunday 2008, both in print and on CD, and pictures of our Peace & Justice Committee members, and an OLM cookbook Brief summary of what P & J does within our church, and outreach to community Fr. Kevin is going to be writing a reply to their invitation, inviting representatives from Blessed Anuarite to OLM as well Fr. Kevin would like to send them a movie of our Mass on DVD, Bulletin board in April will have invitation from Blessed Anuarite enlarged along with enlarged pictures of their parish We are going to be asking the children of OLM to make drawings of their family life, church, school, whatever they would like, to send We hope this will start an exchange of drawings with their children and start a family pen pal project 3/1/2009 Reply Christmas cards are arriving. 2/5/2009: An Invitation - click here to read 2/5/2009: Letter acknowledging our Christmas Cards 1/9/2009 Togo Update, Fr. Kevin will set a new date for a Togo Committee meeting. $583.00 was sent via wire transfer to our Sister Parish. Forty-two Christmas cards were sent from the parish office and several were sent individually.      Our Sister Parish, Blessed Anuarite, has received by wire transfer to their bank, the $731.00 that was saved by Our Lady of the Meadows over a few months out of the 10% of the tithe. The parish council president, Nukunu Kodjo Raphael, expressed their gratitude and said it would be used to help with the roof they are trying to complete by Christmas. Their parish priest, Pastor Aurelien Mienso-Benissan, has announced this gift to his parishioners at Sunday mass. They hope someday that Our Lady of the Meadows parishioners will be able to visit Togo.      We will continue to save for our Sister Parish and will be wiring them these savings periodically. The Peace and Justice committee will be sending a parcel of information regarding their committee soon, other committees are invited to do this as well.  The Peace & Justice Committee needs your help as we launch this important project, as there will be many aspects to explore and ideas to develop. We need the whole parish to get involved. To volunteer call Chris Armstrong at 561-3580 or sign up in Narthex.

Our first Cultural Exchange, a traditional sweet treat:     Benne Cakes from West Africa   1 cup finely packed brown sugar (I used dark) 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 egg, beaten 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder  l/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup toasted sesame seeds*   Grease Cookie sheets Preheat oven to 325 degrees   Mix together brown sugar and butter, beat until they are creamy. Stir in the egg, vanilla extract, and lemon juice. Add flour, baking powder, salt, and sesame seeds. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto the cookie sheets two inches apart. Bake for 15 minutes or until edges are brown.   *To toast sesame seeds put in pan on medium and stir constantly until you can smell them and they start to turn golden, remove from heat right away as they will burn easily.   Recipe doubled yields approximately 7 dozen cookies

Christmas Card Campaign 2008 Send Greetings to Togo     We would like everyone in our parish to send a Christmas Card to our Sister Parish in Togo. A picture of your family or yourself with a personal written greeting is encouraged so we can get acquainted with our Togo friends. Tell them something about your family, your church, our/your community.      Joyeux Noel et Bonne Annee is Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in French if you would like to include that in your card.      Please mail by December 10th 2008 so it will have plenty of time to arrive by Christmas. Take to the post office and have it weighed, flats are very reasonable to send, and they will put the correct amount of postage on it (a regular size #10 envelope starts at $.94). We want this to be a BIG success, so please send your cards to:! Paroisse Bienheureuse Anuarite 13 BP 68 Agoe Assiyeye Togo, West Africa