Diversity & Culture

The Diversity and Culture ministry covers the incorporation of all the cultures and nationalities at OLSD.

Our goal as a ministry is to try and incorporate all the different nationalities and cultures within our church by encouraging individuals to take part in the parish services such as welcoming, offertory, readings and bidding prayers. We have also encouraged people to take part and join the OLSD Cricket team. Which takes places during summer months.

We will aim to try and incorporate different cultural prayers and hymns into our Mass and encourage the appreciation of God’s works through different languages and traditions.

Key Initiatives

We will organise and promote four events during the year to actively make adisplay of diversity of cultures within our parish:

• A Christmas Carol Concert with carols from different parts of the world represented in our church
• Pentecost Sunday
• Two other events

We will investigate ways in which people in our parish and visitors/newcomers may feel accidentally excluded because of an unconscious bias and draw up plans to improve the representativeness of different communities in public positions and ministries within the church.

We will continue to use church Liturgies and Diocesan events to highlight different cultures e.g. Bamenda Sunday.