Golden Jubilee For Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference Child safeguarding Conclusion In Evangelii Gaudium, under the heading 'Pastoral activity and conversion' the Pope says “I hope that all communities will devote the necessary effort to advancing along the path of a pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are. “Mere administration” can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be “permanently in a state of mission” (Evangelii Gaudium 25). Pope Francis says that “even good structures are only helpful when there is a life constantly driving, sustaining and assessing them” (EG26) and, so speaks of a “renewal of structures [that is] demanded by pastoral conversion” (EG27). This involves moving from “a pastoral strategy of mere conversation to a decidedly missionary approach.” The National Pastoral Centre is in the process of reforms so that it is in a position to be truly missionary and be at the service of evangelization in Zimbabwe. 72