CJPD HIGHLIGHTS FROM AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT

Good afternoon Leaders, as a follow up to the brief highlight given by CJPD representatives during Mass today, kindly share the attached write up with your respective Jumuias and church groups.

We urge you to spare a few minutes in your next meeting to come up with more suggestions that we can implement as a community to reverse the negative effects of climate change.

Have a blessed week ahead 🙏🏼

Simiyu – CJPD Chair

 

 

 

 

 

 

PARISH ACCOUNTANT

PARISH ACCOUNTANT

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POSITION TITLE: Parish Accountant
CONTRACT TYPE: Part-time
CONTRACT PERIOD: One (1) Year
MODE OF APPLICATION: Hand delivery.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 28th August 2023
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Working closely with the Parish Finance Committee (PFC) Chair and the Parish Priest to support in the
administration of Parish Financial Resources.
✓ Prepare adequate accruals for all unpaid invoices of a particular month and make releases once payment
has been affected. Ensure all accruals are reconciled to the general ledger on a monthly basis.
✓ Respond to vendor inquiries and reconcile vendor statements.
✓ Make reconciliations of prepayments, provisions and staff advances and submit schedules within the
required time.
✓ In consultation with Parish Finance Chair, maintain updated cashbook(s) for reference before any
payments are processed.
✓ Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for all parish accounts.
✓ Ensure timely posting of all non-current Assets into the accounting software and issuing of Local
Purchase Orders
✓ Prepare billing instructions for clients for the delivery of services.
✓ Responsible for Issuing of Proforma invoices and all claims on a timely basis and ensure they have gone
through the relevant approval process and within agreed service levels and ensure they are duly recorded
in the correct entity.
✓ Regular updates of income stream through account reconciliation of project accounts; company
expenditure, income etc.
✓ Verification and filing of all documents related to accounts receivable in the finance department.
✓ Ensure that tax is correctly accounted for on all payments in accordance with the Income Tax Act and
provide suppliers with their Withholding Tax (WHT) certificates on a timely basis.
✓ Regular issuing of updated monthly financial reports.
✓ Propose and document standard operational procedures.
✓ Initiation of transactions in the Smart Parish system for approval
✓ Implement and train staff on use of Smart Parish System
✓ Track implementation of the annual parish budget and the strategic plan
✓ Introduce controls in the running of all parish projects and ventures including but not limited to water
billing and payment, book sales, pledge tracking, offertory reporting among others.
✓ Proper filing & organizing of all documents pertaining to the above tasks for ease of retrieval.

15TH Announcement

15TH Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 15TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME

  1. The procurement committee wishes to announce the start of the prequalification process for vendors who will offer services to the Parish for the years 2023/24. The process will be done in phases. The first phase is for services/goods frequently required by the parish. The list of services has been posted on the noticeboard and on the church website. Any vendors/suppliers interested in offering the services or supplying goods are required to download the requirements from the church website and submit the required information by 28th July 2023. For any clarification, please refer to the Parish office.
  2. Next Sunday, 23th July, we will have a second collection commonly known as Peter’s Pence. This collection will be send to Rome to aid the Pope in his missionary work. We are all kindly requested to come prepared for this.
  3. CMA monthly meeting/training has been postponed to 30/7/2023 after 1st Mass

 

Jumuiya service

Today:                                                                                    Next Sunday

    1st Mass: St. Peter and Paul                          1st Mass: Our Lady of Fatima

    2nd Mass: SMA Friends                               2ndMass: St James the Great

 

 

Exchange Programme with the Youth /Mental Health Talk

On 4th June, the senior youth from Ngong Cathedral will visit our church(St John and Sylvia) for an exchange programme with our  youths .All the youth are therefore encourage to be present on that day for a successful day. The youth therefore were asked to remain behind for a mental health talk after the mass. This was a great initiative to help the youth to be able to open up on various challenges affecting their mental health. Mrs. Virginia one of the youth patrons in the church was able to take the youth through mental health.

15TH Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENTS 18TH JUNE 2023.

Announcements 18/06/2023

  1. Next Sunday 25th June 2023 is SMA founders’ day which all over the world we request you to pray for us our founder and missions. We sincerely thank you for your continued prayers and support through the years May God Bless you families and your work. SMA Friends will animate Second Mass that day.
  2. Next Sunday, 25th father Thomas will be celebrating ten years of priesthood, we are requested to continue praying so that God strengthen him in the ministry.
  3. The youth will have a recollection on Sunday 25th June after the second Mass, the theme will be, “Overcoming Fear”. All the youth are encouraged to join this wonderful session.
  4. There will be a deanery youth Mass on Saturday 1st July at Namanga and our youth are planning to participate. Parents are kindly asked to allow their youth to participate.
  5. The youth have a project for selling cupcakes, kindly let’s support them
  6. All friends of SMA are encouraged to pass by the church entrance and have their shirts measurements taken by the tailor who is outside the church.
  7. Currently we are doing registration for infant baptism. Those parents who would like their infants to be baptized are invited to register through their Jumuiya’s.Virtual classes will start on Wednesday 21/06/2023 from 8pm in the evening.
  8. Fathers and friends of SMA sincerely thank all parishioners for their continued support. A priest from Lodwar has visited our parish today to appeal for mission support. We therefore invite parishioners for second collection and also return envelopes which were shared last Sunday.

 

Jumuiya service

Today:                                                                      Next Sunday

1st Mass: St. Gabriel                               1st Mass: St. Josemaria Escriva

2nd Mass: CWA                                       2nd Mass: SMA Friends

 

MATANGAZO 18/06/2023

  1. Jumapili ijayo tarehe 25/6/2023 tutasherekea siku ya mwanzilishi wa SMA kote ulimwenguni.Tunawashukuru kwa dhati wakristu wote kwa maombi na usaidizi wenu wa kifedha katika huduma ya Mungu.Tunawaombea kwa Mungu aendelee kuwabariki nyote kijumla,familia zenu na pia kazi zenu.Siku hii marafiki wa SMA watahudumu katika Misa ya pili.
  2. Jumapili ijayo Padre Thomas Otieno atasherekea miaka kumi tangu upadrisho wake,tunaombwa tuendelee kumuombea kwa Mungu ili amtie nguvu katika huduma yake.
  3. Vijana wetu watakuwa na siku ya maombi Jumapili ijayo baada ya Misa ya pili.Mada ya siku ni “overcoming fear”Hivyo basi vijana wote wamealikwa.
  4. Kutakuwa na Misa ya vijana ya Dekania tarehe 1/7/2023 uko Namanga na vijana wetu wamepanga kuhudhuria.Hivyo basi wazazi na walezi wanaombwa kuwaruhusu vijana kushiriki katika Misa hii.
  5. Vijana wetu wameanza mradi wa kuuza keki pale nje karibu na bookshop tafadali tunaombwa tuwaunge mkono kwa kununua keki hizi.
  6. Marafiki wa SMA wanaombwa kupitia pale nje kwenye hema baada ya Misa hii ili kupeana vipimo vyao kwa fundi wa nguo.
  7. Usajili wa ubatizo wa watoto wachanga bado unaendelea na kwa wale ambao bado hawasajili watoto wao wanaombwa kufanya hivo kupitia kwa jumuiya zao.Mafundisho yataanza Jumatano tarehe 21/6/2023 saa mbili jioni kupitia kwa mtandao.
  8. Mapadre na marafiki wa SMA wanawashukuru kwa dhati wanaparokia wote kwa usaidizi wao katika kazi ya kimishonari.Padre kutoka Lodwar amatutembelea leo kwa ajili ya kuomba usaidizi wetu kwa kazi ya mishonari.Hivyo basi tunaombwa tujongee mbele kwa mchango wa pili na pia kurejesha bahasha tulizopewa Jumapili iliyopita.

 

Jumuiya service

Today:                                                                      Next Sunday

1st Mass: St. Gabriel                                   1st Mass: St. Josemaria Escriva

2nd Mass: CWA                                            2nd Mass: SMA Friends