Mr. Ruki Fernando, lay chaplain of IMCS Asia Pacific paid visit to IMCS Nepal and conducted a half day orientation as well as interaction session for the members of IMCS Nepal. Orientation was mainly focused on Spirituality and Identity of IMCS. Ten members actively participated and benefited a lot from the program.

Mr. Ruki explained on the history, role and structure of IMCS. He also provided opportunity for us to discus about issues pertaining to students and church in which he divided us into two groups for the discussion. Each group were given a topic to discuss and then from the group discussion, we presented the issues in regards to the students and church in Nepal to the whole group. From the issues presented Mr Ruki, gave us various ideas on how to tackle it. Since, being newly formed group, he said that working on these issues can be the road map to move forward for the group.

From these sessions, we got clear perspective and vision about being IMCS member and the role we have to perform. We came to realization that the spirituality and the action should go hand in hand and he told us to explore ourselves with discussion and debates. Mr. Ruki used parables from Bible and clarified about the spirituality and made us aware about our responsibility towards students, church and society.

Probably this program was the first where we discussed about the issues, as compared before where we were only limited with mass. Everyone got opportunity to put their views which made us to know each other very well and know capacity of our group. This program gave us the “We” feeling.