Worldwide

The Leading Team

Globally, the Teams movement is led by a Team of seven couples and a chaplain,  currently led by Mercedes & Alberto Pérez  Gómez-Ferrer, from Spain, with Father P. Augusto García, from Canada.

The Team is called the “ERI” – Equipes Responsible International; it includes members from across the world who liaise with the super regions.  The tradition is that the Leading Team serves for six years from one international gathering to the next.  The current ERI began in 2024 after the Gathering in Turin, Italy.

Mercedes and Alberto Pérez Gómez-Ferrer, when accepting the role of International Responsible Couple, said

It is easy to understand that all evangelisation is based on an experience of encounter, and it is in these encounters that an attitude of welcoming must be awakened. We welcome the Lord who has this deeps desire to meet us.
We also welcome the people we meet, from those closest to us to those furthest apart, and in the most diverse situations. We look, we listen, we talk to each other, we open our hearts so that we can begin to communicate, act and serve. These two words: Encounter and Welcome are part of the meaning we want to give to this general orientation for the next 6 years: Called to live in communion.

Teams Structure

Teams has the following levels.

Super Regions

A Super Region groups together, either the Regions of a country, or the Regions of neighbouring countries in the same continent.  Experience shows that at least 200 teams makes a good basis for the functioning of a Super Region.  The Transatlantic Super Region, to which Ireland and GB belongs, is slightly unusual as in addition it groups together English speaking Teams who are linked because of expansion and/or historical reasons.

Regions

A Region groups together several neighbouring Sectors with the objective of mutually helping each other.  It is the link for communication and communion between the Sector Couples, the members of the Sector Teams and other couples accepting positions of responsibility.

Sectors

A Sector is a community of teams wishing to progress together and help each other along this path.  They form a geographical unit of approximately 5 to 20 teams, small enough to enable them to know each other and to communicate directly between persons, yet having enough couples to ensure vitality.  It is the most essential community for the life of Teams.

Zones

A zone is usually a part of the globe with a great diversity of cultures and languages.  Dividing the world by zones allows the Super Regions, Regions or Sectors that make up an area to stimulate, help each other, through meetings to exchange ideas, training, support and even financial aid.  Normally each zone has a dominant language.

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