Prosperity in Trung Song parish

Trung Song Parish includes the following families: Trung Song, Thien Tuoc and Tan Da. The parishioners live in 7 hamlets, including 2 all-Catholic hamlets 11A and 11B with 2,305 people, accounting for 16.4%. The parish has 2 churches: Trung Song and Tan Da.

Trung Song parish church was built spaciously. Photo: Mai Giang

From the movement "All people unite to build new countryside, civilized urban areas, live a good life and follow religion in the period of 2015 - 2020", the parishioners of Dien Thinh commune, Dien Chau district have concretized it with movements such as: Developing the economy, helping each other to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and improve living standards; Movement to build cultural life in residential areas, prevent social evils; Beautiful in ethics, lifestyle and religious life; Beautiful villages, beautiful homelands, beautiful houses, beautiful fields...

Spacious houses in Trung Song parish. Photo: Mai Giang

Local Party committees and authorities focus on building a core force of dignitaries and officials with prestige and qualifications. From there, they will form a close relationship and proactively coordinate with Party committees and authorities to receive and satisfactorily resolve the legitimate aspirations and recommendations of religious people.

Mr. Ha Huy Dong - Deputy Secretary of Party Committee, Chairman of People's Committee of Dien Thinh commune

The road to Trung Song parish, Dien Thinh (Dien Chau). Photo: Mai Giang

Parishes and parishes always pay attention to propagating and mobilizing parishioners to build harmonious families and foster village and neighborhood relationships. Localities also always pay attention to, respect, and ensure freedom of belief and religion in accordance with consistent policies and laws. Since then, parishioners have strictly followed local regulations on cultural and civilized lifestyles. Notably, the campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas, live a good life and good religion" is associated with the implementation of "A good Catholic must be a good citizen".

With the creation of solidarity and unity in building the homeland among parishioners, in the economic development movement, people here focus on applying scientific advances to the fields, increasing the productivity of crops, thereby increasing crop productivity, developing livestock; transportation services, restaurants, purchasing and processing of agricultural and seafood products, occupations such as carpentry, construction, and mechanics are considered the strengths of the people of Trung Song parish, such as Phuc Nhi Seafood Processing Enterprise, which earns billions of dong in profit each year, creating stable jobs for nearly 100 workers.

A corner of Trung Song parish. Photo: Mai Giang

By creating conditions for loans and practical career guidance for young people in religious areas, the number of children of Catholics working abroad is now more than 600, sending back tens of billions of dong each year. Typically, the families of Mr. Nghe, Mr. Tien, Mr. Le... have 3-5 children working abroad.

Up to now, the people's lives have been significantly improved. In 2015, the poverty rate among parishioners was 15%, by 2019 it had decreased to less than 1%; the average income per capita in 2015 was 24 million VND, now it has increased to 48 million VND, while the average for the whole district is 40 million VND/year.

Responding to the campaign "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas", reminded by the parish priest, weddings and funerals were innovated to be simple and economical, sports activities to exchange between Catholics and non-Catholics, and parishes and families inside and outside the district were organized on important occasions.

The peanut fields have completely replaced the corn plants of the Trung Song parish. Photo: Mai Giang

With the close coordination between the hamlet command board and the priest, the parish pastoral council, and the church, in 2016, hamlets 11a and 11B built 2 sports facilities worth 350 million VND, 70% of households built wastewater tanks in the garden to not discharge into the environment; the rate of cultural families has increased from 70% in 2015 to nearly 90% now; the rate of children going to school reached 100%.

All hamlets have established village conventions, so Dien Thinh does not have any complicated incidents or drug addicts. Dien Thinh parishioners always aim for the goal of “Beautiful in morality, lifestyle and religious practice”.