{"id":1485,"date":"2017-07-18T04:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T04:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-07-18T04:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T04:29:54","slug":"coppel-family-concludes-visit-karonga-diocese-pledges-unwavering-commitment-supporting-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/coppel-family-concludes-visit-karonga-diocese-pledges-unwavering-commitment-supporting-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coppel Family Concludes their Visit to Karonga Diocese; Pledges Unwavering Commitment to Supporting the Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After an action packed visit since Wednesday the \u00a012th July, 2017, the Coppel Family left the Diocese of Karonga on Sunday, the 16th of July 2017. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr and Mrs Coppel were accompanied by their 2 grandchildren, 2 friends and senior representatives from the Catholic Relief Services. Mr Coppel has been a close partner of the Diocese of Karonga especially through \u00a0Lusubilo Orphan Care project \u00a0in terms of providing funding for several projects run by the organization. The Coppel were also one of the very first people who\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">generously\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">contributed \u00a0to the construction \u00a0of the St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral. The Coppel Family also supports the Diocese of Karonga through the Caritas and Pastoral commissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During their visit, Mr Coppel \u00a0Family had a number of meetings with staff and management of Lusubilo and Karonga Diocese Curia and visited a number of project interventions in Chitipa and Karonga districts. \u00a0According to Vit<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG-20170712-WA0097-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coppel Family with Bishop Mtumbuka and Representatives from Lusubilo, Diocese and CRS at Bambo Zutu House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">umbiko Ngwira; the Deputy Director at Lusubilo; \u00a0Mr and Mrs Coppel appreciated services that Lusubilo is rendering to various vulnerable individuals and communities in the Diocese of Karonga. He also expressed his joy for the partnership that exists between the organization and his family. During one of the field visits 2 beneficiaries \u00a0shared their experience on the help that they have received from Lusubilo. Also, together with His Lordship Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, Mr Coppel officially opened the warehouse at St. Michael\u2019s Parish on the 14<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0of July,2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the farewell dinner at Bambo Zutu House on the 15th of July, 2017 Mr Coppel expressed his \u00a0thanks for the people of Karonga Diocese for warmly welcoming and hosting them in the Diocese of Karonga. He also pledged unwavering commitment to supporting the Diocese of Karonga. To demonstrate this, among others, Mr Coppel said that each time they visit the Diocese of Karonga, they make sure that they are accompanied by their children and\/or grand children so that this bond continues to grow in the future. In his words, Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Dioce<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Warehouse1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Coppel unveils the plaque marking the official opening of Lusubilo warehouse at St. Michael&#8217;s in Chitipa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>se expressed his gratitude to the Coppel Family for \u00a0the huge support render to the Diocese. According to the Bishop; &#8216;what the Coppel Family are doing to the Diocese call for both<\/p>\n<p>a sense of gratitude to God and to the Coppel Family and a sense of responsibility&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Coppel left Karonga Diocese in the morning of Sunday, 16th July, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an action packed visit since Wednesday the \u00a012th July, 2017, the Coppel Family left the Diocese of Karonga on Sunday, the 16th of July 2017. \u00a0 Mr and Mrs Coppel were accompanied by their 2 grandchildren, 2 friends and senior representatives from the Catholic Relief Services. Mr Coppel has been a close partner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}