EAO missionary animation desk 15 July 2020 -- The most effective missionary animation starts from personal missionary experience sharing by the missionary himself. We are accustomed to give them an opportunity to talk during their homestay in our communities, schools, oratories or parishes. But our SDB new digital generations are spearheading new ways of reaching their missionary animation audience. One of them is the Salesian Indonesian missionary from Flores who is living his missionary vocation in the Ecuadorian part of the Amazon region - Fr. Gusty Togo.

Especially during the Covid19 lockdowns in different countries we can't walk around freely as usual. But you can follow a short video clip following the footsteps of our Salesian missionary in the Apostolic Vicariate of Mendes (Ecuador, since 1896), where in many places the only way to move is by walking through the rainforest. Thanks to the smartphone video you can enjoy the itinerant missionary ministry in the Amazon rainforest. Some dozen or so mission stations around Fr Togo's Wasakentsa community (since 1988) are similar to many others in other parts of Amazon - in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia.

Thanks to these short visual means you can visit the Amazon forest mission almost in real time! We wish more young missionaries would share their daily life from the far-flung peripheries in many creative ways - their humble and hard-working missionary life way may wake up more young Salesians to follow the Cagliero way of living our Salesian vocation as a missionary ad gentes.

Thanks Fr. Rusty!

Videos:

• The itinerant ministry in the Ashuar territory of Amazon (Ecuador)
• Wasakentsa community (4 SDB, lay mission partners including Europe missionary volunteers)

Facebook page of Fr. Augustin Togo

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