Africa: Encounters, Experiences, and Enrichments: Encounters, Experiences, and Enrichments

This volume is a collection of fifty short stories that chronicle the encounters, experience, and enrichments of Fr. Ron Sajdak over a period of twenty-two years as he interacted with people of different African cultures. Many stories standalone while others are in a series of about four or five chapters.

It is often said that “God works in mysterious ways,” and this collection gives witness to thee humorous as well as the profound ways that was manifested and recorded in the author’s life.

Rev. Ronald Peter Sajdak, is a Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Buffalo, NY. His first encounters with African cultures were from1983-1993, while working within the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. He held a full-time position as a Catholic Youth Minister, Coordinator of Worship, and Director of Religious Education at Our Lady of Sorrows in Takoma Park, MD. Many families from various African backgrounds continually joined the parish. Exposure to and working with these families and their children challenged an openness in him and a deep hunger for the enrichment that such experiences can provide.