As I write this it is exactly two years since Jeanne Hinton and I edited the 26 Chapters in our book Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005). As we continue to track the development of SCCs around the world here are "two" new moments that have emerged.

Salvatorian Institute, Inculturation Week
Morogoro, Tanzania
Talk given on 15 February 2007

My name is Father Joe Healey and I am a student, a learner – just like yourselves. Even though I have lived in Africa for 35 years I am a still a visitor, a guest, and in some ways still an "outsider." When it comes to African Culture, I am constantly listening and learning from the African people and African cultures. So you are my teachers. When it comes to Small Christian Communities in Africa we priests are not the experts, not the specialists. No, we are the students, the learners. The African lay people who meet every week in their SCCs are the experts and the specialists. We learn from them.