SDI Global Outreach – March 2025
March 20, 2025 @ 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
Canada (Eastern Time – ET): 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
New Zealand (NZDT): 5:00 AM – 6:30 AM (March 21)
London (GMT): 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Kenya (EAT): 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Categories:
Communities, Educators Formation Gathering, Free, Online Gathering
Across the vast and diverse continent of Africa, from its Eastern shores to the Western reaches, and from the Northern deserts to the Southern savannas, there exists a profound and widespread yearning for spiritual connection. We are highly religious and spiritual people with deep rooted traditional beliefs in God, the essence of all things, or however each of us might refer to the Ground of All Being. In seeking the Divine, or the Beyond, people often rely on spiritual leaders for guidance and a sense of direction and companionship. As spiritual directors and companions, our challenge is to assist people in responding to that call, particularly in the face of the many challenges we are all confronting. How can we do this optimally? How do we guide people as they deal with many contradictions that exist in life? Where is God, or the Ground of all Being, in Africa amidst our countless uniquely African challenges? How do we build a team of African spiritual leaders who direct and companion others to God, or the Beyond, to share experiences and resources?
As we walk this journey together, we seek to build a global network of spiritual leaders—a community where we can share experiences, wisdom, and resources. By coming together, we strengthen our collective ability to guide and companion others in their search for meaning.
We invite you to join us in cultivating this interconnected, worldwide fellowship of spiritual mentors, so that we may support one another and those we serve, fostering a more compassionate and spiritually enriched world.
Our initial outreach session was a spectacular gathering of over 60 SDI members from around the world. Register now to continue the inspired conversations around immigration and displacement, regional community building, “currency equity,” and ensuring SDI remains a safe and sacred place for our entire global community.
Rev. Fr. Kevin Oodo, SJ
Rev. Fr. Kevin Oodo, SJ is a Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order, a spiritual director and school leader working in Monrovia, Liberia. Originally from Nigeria, Fr. Kevin earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College in 2018 and 2019 respectively. He was ordained a priest in 2019 and missioned to Liberia to help establish the first Jesuit owned school in the West African country. Besides his current job as the director and principal of Xavier Jesuit School, Liberia, Fr. Kevin facilitates and directs retreats for religious, lay faithful, young adults, and youths in and around Liberia. He has previously worked in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, USA and Quebec, Canada. Fr. Kevin has been part of the SDI since 2017 when he joined the New Contemplatives Cohorts in Toronto, Canada and since then, has been collaboratively working with others to set up SDI in Africa. He is a current member of the SDI-DEIJ steering committee and spends most of his free time teaching and learning from the less advantaged children in his neighborhoods in Liberia.
SDI Global Outreach Session
February 20 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
An event every month that begins at 9:00 am on day Third of the month, happening 12 times
