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The Mission Orientation Programme (MOP) is an annual event
held usually in the middle of the year. The Mission Orientation
Programme seeks to bring about a deepening of the participants'
awareness of what mission means and help each person to be
more missionary in his or her daily life.
With the understanding that each person is called to mission,
the programme will help him or her to discern what form this
calling takes. Mission is a way of being, of doing good, of
sharing God's love, of being the light of Christ wherever
you are.
For some people, mission simply means "being Christ"
wherever they are, in their everyday settings, to their family,
friends, colleagues in perfectly ordinary ways. For others,
the call may mean doing outreach such as volunteering in some
form in Singapore. For yet another group of people, mission
may take the form of an overseas calling, to "leave everything
behind" and go. The programme will also provide some
avenues for those who want to be full-time missionaries and
allows many opportunities to be with local and foreign missionaries.
The MOP serves more as a formation or awareness programme
than as a trip for participants to actually engage in mission
work. It focuses on observations of mission firsthand in mission
centres as well as sharings and talks by lay and religious
missionaries.
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broad topics that are generally covered in the MOPs are :
- Introduction to Mission
- Redemptoris Missio/ Missiology
- Answering the call/Discipleship
- Discernment
- Social Situation/Needs/Mission in Singapore
- Foreign Missions
- Inter-Religious Dialogue
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