Ministerial collaboration

This table shows the collaborations within the ministerial coordination group. From the data collected, the following possible involvements emerged:

• Comboni community
• Local Laity
• Professionals
• Other communities of the Comboni Family
• Local Pastoral Agents
• Members of other religious institutes/ missionaries
• Partnership with associations / NGO
• Local community leaders

There is also the possibility that only one person is in charge of the ministerial coordination.

This table shows the external entities with which the coordination group collaborates in carrying out ministry activities. From the data collected, the following possible collaborations emerged:

• NGOs / Associations
• Academic institutions at various levels (primary, secondary, university)
• Foreign volunteers and sponsors
• Popular networks / movements
• Ecclesial organisations (diocesan or other)
• Other missionary / religious institutions
• Local volunteers
• Local government
• National government
• Public institutions (e.g. health, education, parastatals, etc.)
• Other Comboni circumscriptions
• Local Christian community
• Other churches or various religious communities
• Private social sector
• Private commercial sector

The mapping shows what kind of relationship the Comboni social ministries have with the local church. In particular, the following variables emerged:

• Specific pastoral: in this case the ministries are an expression of an specific ministry to the local church.
• Outgoing church: ministries that are an expression and animation of the local church called to go out to the existential and territorial peripheries.
• Parish: the ministries are an expression of parish pastoral activity.
• Diocesan office: the members of the Comboni Family involved operate in a diocesan office.
• Collaboration: the ministries are an expression of an institutional partnership between the diocese and the Institute..

This table shows the ecclesial model implicit in Comboni social ministries. The following variables emerge from the mapping:

• Church as mystery of salvation: this model expresses the call of the Christian community to transfigure the world in Jesus Christ. It is a model that is frequently found as a reference for those ministries that are an expression of a faith community (e.g. parish) that cares for the least and for the Common Home.
• Church as communion: that is, as a community of faith, hope and charity in the world that interfaces and walks together with realities also beyond the ecclesial boundaries. This model generally appears in ecumenical and inter-religious contexts.
• Outgoing Church: taking up the image proposed by Evangelii gaudium, it is the "field hospital" church, which we often find in experiences of insertion that reach the excluded beyond the ecclesial borders.
• Church as the people of God: this model emerges above all in the experiences of accompanying and fighting alongside excluded or marginalised human groups, promoting their dignity, social justice, social inclusion with respect and reciprocity, to build a "people" for the Kingdom of God.