Targets Effects and Impact
TARGET GROUPS
The missionary commitment and research work of the members of the Sillon Noir and the Q.I.C. mainly targeted the following target groups:
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the African Church as a whole for its cultural roots,
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formators at the level of the African Church,
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schools and universities,
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poor people,
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the voiceless,
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young people,
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any African in a situation of tension between his faith and his culture.
EFFECTS AND IMPACT
The constant missionary commitment of the members of the Sillon Noir and the QIC has had effects and an impact both at the level of the life of the Church and at the level of society.
I. At the level of the Church:
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inculturation, despite the controversies, has become an essential mission at the level of the local Churches of the mission field of the Sillon Noir;
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the great awakening effort made to help the people emerge from the divorce between faith and culture and lead them to a patient and methodical search for a global reflection on the relationship between faith and culture, on the one hand, and on the liturgical, pedagogical and pastoral implementations of the search for inculturation, on the other hand;
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the fact that the people of God are gradually arriving at non-syncretistic celebrations and in a happy alliance of faith and culture;
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solicitation at various international and regional levels addressed to members of the Sillon Noir: Roman Synods, International Theological Commission, Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome and Cotonou, Cor Unum, Pontifical Council for Culture, Regional Episcopal Conference of Africa West, Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, etc.
II. At the level of civil society:
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the contribution of the Sillon Noir, in terms of mobilizing people and ideas, to the advent of democracy;
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participation in the awakening of a grassroots civil society (neighbourhoods and villages) and the promotion of self-centered and self-controlled development;
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education to accept intercultural and interethnic difference.