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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 was a special day at the Oblate Missions Office on Oblate Drive in San Antonio. After years of planning, months of preparation and weeks of packing , a twenty-foot container destined for Lusaka, Zambia was loaded and transported to Houston. From there it will be shipped to Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and trucked from there to Lusaka. An optimistic estimate promises delivery in forty-five days.
The container shipment will no doubt be warmly welcomed by the Oblates of Zambia and their collaborators. It contains books, school supplies, toys, religious articles, statues, eyeglasses, a wheel chair as well as a tabernacle and altar vessels for the new Mary Immaculate Church in Lusaka. The 296 boxes of books are intended for and eventual Delegation library to be established in Makeni, the site of a future formation Center for the growing Oblate Delegation. The books were donated by Oblate School of Theology Library which had gathered the many volumes from a number of formation institutions in the United States, including Oblate Colleges in Washington, DC and Natick, Massachusetts.
Personnel from Oblate Missions, volunteers from the Oblate Association and four young men from a local parish were most generous in collaborating with Fr Ron Carignan, OMI, from Zambia who coordinated the project.
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