The seminar took place on August 19th and 20th, 2010 in Saydnaya – Syria led by the Region Coordinator Miss Claire Saïd and the participation of the delegations of the Two National Lebanese and Syrian Bureaux
 
The Lebanese Delegation : The National Responsible M. Chadi Mouchantaf, Miss Cynthia Stephan, Dyana Hayek and Lama Mouchantaf.
 
The Syrian Delegation : The National Responsible M. Gassan Talab, Miss Claude Mirza, Lucine Awaydissian, Chirine Karwachane and Ranim Dahdouh, Mrs Sarkis Droubi, Louay Kharbout and Fadi Bittar.
His Grace Joseph Absi presented a study bringing closer the points of the texts of the Instrumentus Laboris which concern the pastoral of the children, the spiritual and apostolic life of the accompanying adults and the mission of an international movement in the near eastern context.
Thus he helped the group to read out the mission of the IMAC with the children and to renew its evangelical and missionary agreement at several levels, in order to train secular people inside the Church, witnesses of Jesus Christ communion and Love in this part of the world.
 
After the presentation of His Grace Absi, the participants worked during two successive workshops, the agreements and the appeals of the movements in each country :
 
1. Our agreements
·         To go with the children to discover Jesus and strike up a friendship with Him and this will be done thanks to the testyfing of the accompanying youngs and adults of their Love for Christ.
·         To look after the blooming the Gospel spirit in our own lives : the charity, the forgiveness, the open-mindedness, the solidarity… And to look after God in the other, in every man and in everything, to make Him present in our societies and in our lives reading again our life according to the pedagogy of the IMAC – To See – To Judge – to Act - Evaluate – Celebrate at the children’s, accompanying adults’, executive’s and chaplains’level.
·         To make the children passionate for the  Word of God varying the approaches – to create a Lebanese-syrian commitee of the accompanying adults to think up and to spread big biblical games  to the groups of the countries of the region, to collaborate with the parishes priests to set up times for biblical meetings for the children and their parents
·         To encourage the children to discover our religious inheritance in order to discover the course of our Churches throughout history, the richnesses and the trials to reinforce their belonging to this holy land, organizing pilgrimages to the holy sites of each country.
·         To be considerate towards the sacerdotal and religious vocations and encourage the children and the young to the consecrated life when we feel the premises for this vocation within the person.
·         To make our children conscious of the respect of the human being because the Creator’s respect is linked with the respect of his creatures. As we agree to go on promoting the education as we wish for our children, preparing in the future their faculty to make personal, moral and political choices according to the Gospel values and we get involved to mobilize them around the charter of the Child’s Rights, accompanying them to help them to be actors of change in their environment. To implicate the children in the oecumenical step for the Church unity and to take actions showing the mutual welcome as they are from all the Churches inside the movement. To teach them the respect of the variety of the Churches attending meetings in their diocese during the week of unity in January month each year.
·         To help to the cleansing of the collective memory in our societies training the children to become actors of change in their families and in their environment encouraging their parents to go beyond the experiences from the past at the muslim-christian relations leading social and play actions between muslim and christian  children. 
·         To promote in our education for use of  mass media and electronic games, the meaning of the beautiful and the truth in the texture of relations to oneself, to the other and to the society.
2. Our call
Dear Fathers, at the beginning, we would like to express our gratefulness and our gratitude for the appeal for this   synod, expressing the concern of the Church, our Mother, in front of the challenges that his sons and his daughters live in the Near East countries. We also want to testify of the presence and the encouragment we have from the Bishops’part of our dioceses where the IMAC is. As we want to express our filial love for our three Bishops – National Chaplains of the IMAC, His Grace Joseph Absi in Syria, His Grace Yasser Ayache in Jordan and His Grace Elie Haddad in Lebanon. In the second place, we would wish to share with you the following points :    
People of the future but children of today able to work here and now according to their ability to build the kingdom of God.
·         Following the paragraph 61 of the Instrumentus Laboris, dealing with the mission of the international movements in our Near-Eastern countries, we shall want to share our experience with you. The IMAC groups together children and young people from various Catholic and Orthodox Churches and calls for the respect of the tradition and the liturgy of everyone. Several vocations bloomed within some groups, priests, monks, nuns. Our international belonging is a blessing for us, we are subject to no restraint at the level of the Movement politics as the IMAC pedagogy focuses on the children’s participation in the elaboration of the year campaign and  ideas and desires come from the children. All the same the Movement operates in the parishes, it is fully fixed in the parish’s life, the children are in charge of the liturgical service and take part in the liveliness of the feasts in the parish. The bishops and the parish priests provide the spiritual accompaniment of the children and the young people, as we wish that the Holy Synod encourages even more the parish priests to live this service because the needs in this field are numerous. We hope that there would be a visible space for the children in the pastoral organization chart of the diocese creating a diocesan commission for the Childhood Pastorale which, on  top of the preparation for the solemn communion and the catechetics, this commisson would favour the role and  the place of the children in the parishes of the diocese and would provide a direct relation between the Bishop and the children.
·         We desire that the children shall be welcomed with a specific way in their parish where they can live in a family climate in the image of the tenderness of their own family, and afterwards, that the places and the times used by the children shall be respected, that they will be given responsabilities according to their ability in the liturgical services and the liveliness of the parish. It is important that the parish shall be listening to the children and take seriously their point of view and propositions because they are able and responsible for the liveliness of the parish life.
·         All the same, the young people and the accompanying adults express their wish that the Church, in persons and institutions, dedicate more time to listen to them and asks to reassure them concerning their future in their country of the Near East.
·         We request from the religious assemblies that they encourage the missionary and apostolical work, we feel the need that the monks and the nuns get involved, outside of their convents, monasteries, next to the secular people in this Church Mission.
We express again our thanks for the appeal for this synod and we wish a better attention for the children, secular people of the Present and the Future of the Near East