Fr. Joseph spent the first week of September offering two three-day workshops to the Salesian Family in Thailand, at Hua Hin, 200 km south of Bangkok. He was invited to Thailand by a committee of Alumni from DSPT and the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.
Joseph delivered four presentations each day centered on evangelization and education of the young in the style of St John Bosco and according to the spirit of St Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. Over 160 women and men participated. The majority of the participants were Thai, but there were also delegations from the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Cambodia.
2009 marks the 150th year since St John Bosco launched the Salesian Society. The reflections built on this event, asking the Salesian Family in Thailand and Southeast Asia how they might re-launch Don Bosco's mission for the young of the next 150 years.
