Golden Jubilee For Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference The National Pastoral Team In 1978 Fr. Tim Page SJ was appointed the second Director of the Pastoral Centre. He looked for representatives from each diocese to meet regularly as an attempt to coordinate the Pastoral effort of the country. A lot was achieved by the National Pastoral Team as dioceses shared the common challenges, opportunities and pastoral plans. The National Pastoral Team was beefed up by some specialists as Fr. Page sought help of Fr. Edmonds in Scripture, Br James Langlois in Spirituality and Sr. Marlene Scholz in Communications. National Pastoral Centre Directors In 1972, Fr. Horst Ulbrich SJ was the first director and was followed by Fr. Tim Page. After him followed Sr Denise, RSHM who was appointed in January 1983. With her background in Communications, she made special efforts to keep the country informed of the pastoral efforts in each diocese by means of regular meetings and subsequent reports in “Pastoral Service”. The centre was also given the tasks of making a study on the Small Christian Communities. In 1990 November Fr. Tom Russel OFM took up office as the new Director and his main task in his first year was to assist in the national preparations for the First Special Assembly for Africa. He provided a summary of the Lineamenta as a booklet “Our Way In”. From 2002 to 2005 Fr. Martin Mukosera from Mutare Diocese ran the Pastoral Centre continuing with the task of obtaining information, research and organising pastoral formation workshops and seminars. From 2006 - 2012 the Director was Fr. Robert Mabonga who also continued with the task laid down for the Pastoral Centre. He directed a lot of work on the formation and animation of the lay associations, formation of Catechists and ongoing formation of young priests. He also achieved a lot on biblical apostolate and translation of liturgical texts. From 2012 the Pastoral Centre was without a director. ZCBC Strategic Plan In 2017, the Bishops came up with the 2018-2022 strategic plan in which they made a commitment to appoint a National Pastoral Coordinator, re-vitalize the National Pastoral Team and re-establish synergistic relations with Diocesan pastoral programmes including winter school and pastoral services reflections. In January 2019, Fr. Mgcini Moyo from Hwange diocese was appointed as the Coordinator of the Pastoral Centre. 71