1.   The ultimate goal of SPRED is the integration of handicapped people into their local parish community.

2.   I work in a Programme called SPRED -- Special Religious Education -- which reaches out and welcomes handicapped children and adults into the life of the parish community.

3.   The sine qua non, the absolute requirement, is the opportunity to belong to a community of believers and this is the reality of the parish community.

4.   Parish Chairperson -- one of the helper catechists who undertakes to be the link with the clergy and the parish community.

5.   SPRED is a programme that reaches out and welcomes mentally handicapped children, adolescents, young adults, and adults into the local parish community.

6.   And they are still the center of many parish communities.