The Salesians arrived in the country in 1995. Their first work was established in Sarh. The city, the third largest in the country, is located in the South and has more than 120 thousand inhabitants. Three years later the Salesians began a second work in the capital, N'Djamena, and in 2013 they started yet another in the city of Doba.
Fr Bartol was parish priest in Sarh for the past five years and Fr Hubner has spent two years as parish priest in Doba. The community of Sarh also has two Salesians from Cameroon and one from Chile. In the mission there is a school, a kindergarten, an oratory-youth centre and a parish. But the Salesians carry out their pastoral ministry also in 116 villages. It is a typical Salesian work, their mission is to evangelize and educate.
Fr Bartol serves the people with joy and says that you must have patience. He understands that for the local people the Gospel is new and it takes time to get to know it.
The Sarh people became good friends with Fr Bartol. The children of the mission school especially showed affection, and every time he came into the yard they would run towards him. He is a priest who shows interest in families and helps them.
After nine years in Cameroon and five in Chad, Fr Bartol has now started his missionary work in the Central African Republic, a country that together with Chad, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea form the Vice-Province of Tropical Equatorial Africa (ATE).
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