Gamba: PIME Chapel Program
A Look at the Gamba Community's Former Chapel
PIME U.S. Mission Director, Fr. Daniele Criscione, walks us through the Gamba community in the area of the mission in Tikem, Chad, to their former chapel.
Constructed primarily of sticks, the faithful of this community gathered at this chapel in the shadow of a tree often, until a more permanent, sturdy structure was funded by a PIME U.S. Supporter through the PIME Chapel Program.
The Gamba Community's New Chapel & Dolly the Sheep
The Gamba community’s new chapel is still under construction but has been funded through the PIME Chapel Program. In gratitude of what PIME and our supporters have done for the Gamba community, they gifted Fr. Daniele and PIME U.S. Mission Center Administrator, Michelle Regner, a sheep named Dolly!
Traveling Around Tikem
Tikem Community School
Fr. Daniele shows us a community school in Tikem that was granted permission by the chief of the village to build a permanent structure. Aided by PIME Missionaries Fr. Luis Alberto De La Cruz and Fr. Francisco Vincente Da Silva (Fr. Sheiko), parents of the community were able to to form a school to provide their children with a Catholic education.
The MDI-PIME Sisters here manage the school, which currently takes place in structures made of rough hewn wood.
St. James Parish Chapel
In the Tikem area, Fr. Daniele visits a chapel within St. James Parish. This chapel is constructed in the modest way that many chapels are in the PIME Mission in Chad.
The PIME Chapel Program transforms communities like this one by allowing them a permanent structure where the faithful can not only celebrate Mass in any weather, but it also gives them a gathering space where they can come together.
Mission Center + Cameroon & Chad
