CFC-FFL
Seniors Assembly
Seniors1
are the following:
1) The Servant General and Country Servants2
2) District Servants, Cluster Servants, and Chapter Servants
3) Region Coordinators and Area Coordinators3
4) Regional Coordinators and Country Coordinators
5) Overall heads of ministries and their sub-groups4
6) Overall heads of functional groups5
7) Members of the Body of Counselors
8) District core team members
9) Ministry (Family, Social, Pro-Life) core team members6
10) Cluster coordinators of YFL and KFL
11) Cluster coordinators of Social Ministries and Pro-Life
In
areas that have been designated as districts7,
the seniors come together in a monthly8 prayer
assembly involving all the above plus the following:9
1) Spouses of seniors
2) Fulltime pastoral workers
3) Former seniors10
4) Strategic individuals11
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Major parish leaders (PPC head, BEC head, etc.)
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Heads or major leaders of parish religious groups
Attendance
at the Seniors Assembly is a must for all the above. The
purpose of the Seniors Assembly is the following:
1) To provide a communal support environment for seniors.12
2) To help strengthen our overall life and mission.
3) To provide a venue for fellowship and networking among
seniors.13
The
following, not formally a part of the Seniors Assembly,
can attend as guests.
1) Members coming from outside the territory, both local
and from abroad.
2) Diocesan Liaisons and Parish Liaisons.
3) Heads of our parish CFC-FFL groups.14
4) Others as cleared by the Chapter Servant or District
Servant.
1
Formerly called “elders.”
2 The Country Servant is the overall head of a
country.
3 For Metro Manila, this includes the MM Mission
Coordinator, the Luzon Mission Coordinator, the Visayas Mission
Coordinator and the Mindanao Mission Coordinator. In other
countries, it would be their counterparts.
4 Family Ministries, Social Ministries, Pro-life.
Also the major sub-groups thereat.
5 Home Office, PFO, etc.
6 Included are the core teams of each of the Family
Ministries (KFL, YFL, SFL, HFL, SvFL).
7 In Metro Manila there are 7 districts but only
one Seniors Assembly.
8 Except in December, if the regularly scheduled
Seniors Assembly is in the second half of the month.
9 These persons are not considered “seniors”
though they are included in the Seniors Assembly.
10 Those who are no longer serving as seniors not
because of their own transgression. Such former seniors may
opt not to be a part of the Seniors Assembly.
11 These individuals may opt not to be a part of
the Seniors Assembly.
12 The Seniors Assembly is normally a regular prayer
assembly. However, its content and format may be adapted to
whatever will be helpful at that time for the seniors. For
example, there could be an extended teaching, or a video presentation,
or a “town hall” type of interactive meeting,
etc.
13 It is up to individuals to fellowship and network
before and after the assembly itself.
14 This is the top leader, not yet a senior, of
CFC-FFL in a parish. If we have just one household, then it
is the Household Servant. If one unit, it is the Unit Servant.
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