Session for Non-Deacon Brother Trainees

From Thursday, February 12 to Friday, February 13, a session was held at the Gervais Quenard Provincial House for non-deacon Trainee Brothers. The general theme was: "Becoming rich in view of God." The lay speakers, the CEO of TID (Trust Investment Development), Mr. Alfred KAMATHE SIVIRI and his Assistant in terms of Credits to TID, Mr. Zawadi, very well dissected the terms of the central theme, thus proving that it is possible to become rich while preserving Christian values. In this sense, for them, even religious people who have nevertheless taken a vow of poverty can also study financial education and become rich in order to carry out their apostolate well with great autonomy and great freedom. In short, for them, wealth being everything that one possesses and which can be transformed into cash for the satisfaction of one's needs and the operation of one's income-generating activities, it is within the reach of any entrepreneur. Better still, numerous reference works on wealth, such as Millionaire's Highway; Rich dad, poor dad; The richest man in Babylon; The cumulative effect; My mother's goat; Atomic Habit; Attitude in everything; etc. they gave the participants these secrets to getting rich:
1) Make the sacrificial choice to live below your means;
2) Pay yourself first (save) from your income, bonuses and salaries, before any transaction;
3) Use income to purchase assets;
4) Take advantage of the principle of cumulative effect;
5) Develop your own business;
6) Surround yourself with successful people;
7) Increase your ability to earn money;
8) Realize that by avoiding failure, we also avoid success; in other words: “Nothing risked, nothing gained”;
9) Desire money and take action to earn it;
10) Borrow (take out credit) to invest, respond to emergencies and consume or purchase assets.
Furthermore, the Assumptionist speakers, Brother César KANGITSI and Fathers Paulin VYAKUNO and Augustin TASI, will have, for their part, complemented the lay speakers by emphasizing above all the opportunities that Assumptionist religious people have to access wealth in view of God. Essentially, the participants learned from them that as neutral, money reveals the nature of the person who possesses it. If it falls into the hands of a generous person, it is the salvation of all. If it falls into the hands of a greedy person, it is death for all! With this, they will help all Assumptionists to abandon the bad relationship with money, the bad attitude towards money and towards the right to desire to get rich. And, given that the wealth of a country springs from the wealth of each of its citizens, each of them now burns with the desire to be rich and thus enrich the Assumption, their family of religious affiliation. The joy of the participants is at its height, they say, to have benefited from a session whose main theme was detailed with a view to encourage choices to enrich the African Assumption and grant it the financial autonomy necessary for its mission. These choices are first of all establishing one's spirituality and fidelity in the living of the vows. It is, then, to have numerous Religious Brothers, freely decided for this vocation in the Church and in the Congregation. Because, the Religious-Brother has the advantage of being trained quickly after the novitiate in the social and developmental areas and he has a great availability to serve over time or in a stable manner. This disposes him to create wealth for his Congregation. At the end, the participants understood that there are four types of wealth: spiritual wealth, mental wealth, relational wealth and material wealth. They stand all four and the one who possesses them is called rich in the sight of God. The session took place to everyone's satisfaction! They therefore welcome the active participation of everyone while encouraging the Province of Africa to move forward in organizing such activities.