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A PATHWAY TO COMMON GOOD (ROMANS 13:1-7): COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, 2025-08) Rev. Fr. Nteban Thomas NGONG
PURPOSE
To demonstrate collaboration between the Church and civil authorities in the Cameroon Grassfields through submission to civil authorities in Rom. 13:1-7 is a pathway to the common good in the Cameroon Grassfields.
INFLUENCE OF TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ON TEACHER JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RONGAI SUBCOUNTY, NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, 2025) KORIR MERCY CHELANGAT
The study investigated the influence of teacher professional development programmes on teacher job performance in public secondary schools in Rongai Sub-County, Nakuru County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following research questions: What is the level of teachers’ participation in professional development programs? How does the school administration promote teacher professional development? To what extent does participation in professional development programs influence teachers' job performance? What challenges hinder the effectiveness of teachers’ professional development programs in enhancing teacher job performance? The study was anchored in Malcolm Knowles’ Adult Learning Theory and employed a mixed-method research design. The target population included one sub-county director of education, 48 administrators, 285 teachers, and 300 students from 48 public secondary schools. Stratified random sampling produced a sample of 15 schools, 85 teachers, and 90 students; systematic sampling yielded 15 administrators, while purposive sampling was used for the sub-county director. Data collection involved questionnaires and interview guides, validated through expert review. Reliability was established using Cronbach’s Alpha (α = .796) for quantitative tools, while credibility and member checking were applied to qualitative data. Quantitative data were
analyzed using descriptive statistics and correlation tests with SPSS, while qualitative data were thematically analyzed. Findings showed low teacher participation in PD (28%). However, student responses indicated improved classroom performance (81%) among participating teachers due to better preparedness. Correlation results revealed significant positive relationships: PD participation and lesson preparation (r = 0.45, p = 0.002), PD relevance and clarity of explanations (r = 0.50, p = 0.001), and PD support with teacher motivation (r = 0.40, p = 0.005). Despite these benefits, 68% of teachers considered PD irrelevant, while 81% cited inadequate leadership support and 72% mentioned funding challenges. The study recommended localized and mentorship-driven PD models, enhanced peer coaching, and collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations to address resource constraints and improve teaching outcomes.
Influence of Support Staff Strategies in Enhancing Learners Safety in Public Catholic Sponsored Secondary Schools in Kiambu County
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, 2025-09) REGINA MUENI MUTISO
The pertinent issues of the safety of learners in institutions of learning have become a global concern in educational platforms. Governments, schools and even churches have explored guidelines and policies that offer solutions. This study examined the influence of support staff on learner safety in Public sponsored Catholic secondary schools in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following research questions: To what extent does the duties of a support staff influence the safety of learners? How does the relationships between Support Staff and Students influence the safety of learners? What influence does training and capacity building support staff have on safety of learners? What influence does job satisfaction of a support staff has on the safety of learners? How does administrative strategies influence safety of learners? The study was anchored on the Invitational Theory. A mixed methods research design was employed, targeting 86 Public sponsored Catholic secondary schools in Kiambu County. Through proportionate and purposive methods of sampling, 26 schools were selected. Data was collected through questionnaires, interviews and document analysis. Content validity was ensured through university supervisor reviews and reliability was tested using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.7. Data analysis utilized SPSS version 26 for descriptive and inferential statistics.
Ethical standards were maintained throughout the study. The findings affirm that support staff are crucial in the safety of learners, they are effective when school cultures uphold the importance of each staff in facilitation of safe and supportive environments, well laid support systems, clear policies and continuous training. The study recommends national policies that define clear positions and roles of support staff that ensure safety of learners. While schools exhibit excellent endeavours in enhancing the safety of learners, there is need to make systematic investment to train, involve and assist support staff.
THE PNEUMATIC REVELATORY INCULTURATION AS A MEANS OF ECCLESIAL CONVERSION IN EPHPHATA CHARISMATIC RENEWAL MOVEMENT IN CAMEROON (E.C.C.R.M.)
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, 2025-09) WILLIAM COSME BOUTCHANG FODJO
Can a deeper theological understanding of pneumatic revelatory inculturation serve as a pathway for ecclesial conversion within the Ephphata Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in Cameroon? Can pneumatic revelatory inculturation be relevant as a means of ecclesial conversion in the current context of the Ephphata Charismatic Renewal Movement in Cameroun, which is marred by confusion and abuse of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit? Existing literature and experience on Ephphata’s life emphasize only prayer, healing, and Experience In The Spirit. Less attention has been given to the relevance of pneumatic revelatory inculturation as a means of ecclesial conversion amid misunderstandings of the Experience In The Spirit, financial abuse, confusion involving syncretism and witchcraft, abuse of sacraments, fetishism, religious pluralism, tribalism, emotionalism, misuse of exorcism, and mixing of denominations. Furthermore, little has been done to explore the relevance and impact of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Ephphata's contemporary context, especially concerning the challenges above.
This study explores the relevance of the Holy Spirit’s charismatic work within the Ephphata context of inculturation in Cameroon. From the case study of confusion and misuse due to Ephphata’s misunderstanding of the experience in the Spirit, syncretism, witchcraft, abuse of sacramental, and tribalism, etc., in Cameroon, this study underlines that the pneumatic revelatory inculturation may help one fellow charismatic to appear and work for ecclesial conversion and charismatic renewal. It demonstrates that the contextualization or the inculturation of the light, the gifts, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit might help to reconstruct the charismatic renewal order, ecclesial conversion, and social harmony weakened by the confusion and abuse of the Holy Spirit within the Ephphata charismatic community. This survey thus assumes that the pneumatic revelatory inculturation of the economy of the Holy vi Spirit’s gifts is a useful way in addressing the crucial problem of tribalism, syncretism, witchcraft, elitism, sacramentalism, and misunderstanding of the Experience In The Spirit towards People encountering Ephphata catholic charismatic renewal movement.
This thesis is composed of four chapters. In the first chapter, the thesis deals with the Socio-Anthropological background of Ephphata in Cameroon. The first point explores the founder of the Ephphata catholic charismatic renewal group, the second point the foundation of the Ephphata catholic renewal movement, and the third point the expansion of the Ephphata catholic charismatic renewal movement in Cameroon and Europe, and the United States.
The second chapter draws attention to the understanding of the challenges and issues of Ephphata Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The first point of the second chapter demonstrates the misunderstanding of the Experience if the Spirit among Ephphata people, the second point examines how the financial abuse and elitism happened, the third point, points out the confusion of syncretism that happened through the belief in witchcraft, and the fourth point describes the phenomenon of witchcraft and its negative effects on the christian faith.
The third chapter studies the Church’s teaching on the mission of the Holy Spirit within the charismatic renewal of Christianity. The first point is about the origin of the revelation of the Holy Spirit rooted in the Holy Trinity, the second point treats the biblical foundation of the Holy Spirit according to the Old and the New testament, the third chapter concerned the patristic teaching of Tertullian, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Augustine on the Holy Spirit, and finally the third point emphasized on the Holy Spirit’s
vii Authority in Inculturation and Charismatic Renewal Mission through Redemptoris Mission , Vatican II’s Ad Gentes, Ecclesia In Africa, Africae Munus, and Nyamiti’s trinitarian pneumatology.
The fourth chapter focuses on the contextualization of The Gift of the Holy Spirit in Ephphata. The first point focuses on the invocation of the Holy Spirit, understood as the primacy of the prayer with the Holy Spirit, the second point deals with the spirituality of the seven gifts, the spirituality of the three extraordinary gifts, and the charism and the charismatic renewal mission and vision, and the third point emphasized on the recommendations to Ephphata catholic charismatic renewal movement for ecclesial conversion and charismatic renewal. This survey affirms the relevance of the pneumatic revelatory inculturation of theeconomy of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the context of the Ephphata Catholic Charismatic renewal group for the sake of ecclesial conversion in Cameroon. This thesis demonstrates the significance of pneumatic revelatory inculturation as the means of ecclesial conversion in the case of Ephphata Catholic Renewal.
FAMILY SOCIO-ECONOMIC STABILITY AND THE REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN INSTITUTIONALIZED IN CATHOLIC CHURCH-RUN INSTITUTIONS IN LANG'ATA-KIBRA SUB-COUNTIES, NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, 2025-09) ELIZABETH AKOTH
The reintegration of institutionalized children remains a challenge where families face socio-economic instability. The study assessed the influence of family social economic stability on the reintegration of children institutionalized in Catholic church-run institution in Langata-Kibra Sub Counties, Nairobi County, Kenya. The specific objectives were to assess the influence of family socio-economic constraints, family employment opportunities, socio-economic stability challenges influence the reintegration of children institutionalized in Catholic Church-run institutions in Lang’ata and Kibra Sub Counties, Nairobi County, Kenya as well as to determine the strategies that enhance the reintegration of children institutionalized in Catholic Church-run institutions in Lang’ata and Kibra Sub Counties, Nairobi County, Kenya. Attachment Theory and Social Network Theory was used in this study. This study adopted a convergent parallel design. Study targeted 40 participants (4Directors, 4 Counselors, 12 Social workers and 20 Caregivers. Census sampling techniques was used to get a propionate 40 sample size. Questionnaire and interview guide was used in data collection. The data that was analyzed using (SPSS) version 26. Quantitative data was summarized using descriptive statistics (percentages and frequencies). The qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The study found that socio-economic constraints, particularly low income, financial instability, inadequate housing, and high debt, significantly hinder the reintegration of institutionalized children in Langata-Kibera Sub-Counties. Families often struggle to meet institutional financial requirements, while job insecurity further complicates their ability to provide for reintegrated children. Although education and healthcare were less consistently cited, they remain challenges for disadvantaged families. Stable employment emerged as a key factor in facilitating reintegration. To address these barriers, financial support, family counseling, and vocational training were identified as crucial strategies. The study recommends further research on socio-economic constraints, a focus on employment opportunities, and the design of effective reintegration programs to enhance family stability and improve outcomes for children.