How to Join Us

The process of Oblate formation starts when one enters the pre-noviate community. There are a number of pre-novitiate communities in the different units that send their students to St. Joseph's Scholasticate. The prenovitiate formation normally lasts for two years, after which one enters a novitiate. The novitiate is canonically and for the most part the students who come to St Joseph's scholasticate go either to "Our Lady of Hope Novitiate" in Johannesburg or "Our lady of Peace Novitiate" at Dobra in Windhoek in Namibia.

Any one interested in entering the formation process of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate from this sub-regions can contact any of the following directors of formation in their respective units:

CENTRAL PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA The Pre-novitiate Director P.O. Box 555 Rayton 1001 Phone: +270 12 736 2614	NAMIBIA PROVINCE The prenovitiate Director P.O. Box 40262 Ausspannplatz Windhoek Phone: +264 61 242728
NATAL PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA Director of Vocations P.O. Box 100464 Scottsville 3209 Phone: +270 33 396 1451	NORTHERN PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA The Pre-novitiate Director P.O. Box 555 Rayton 1001 Phone: +270 12 736 2614
ZAMBIA DELEGATION: Director of Vocations Oblates of Mary Immaculate P.O. Box 320009 Woodlands, Lusaka e-mail: chinyembaomi@zamtel.zm Phone: +26 01 250026             +26 097750346	ZIMBABWE MISSION Vocations Director P.O. Box QP 157 Queenspark Bulawayo e-mail: mdfomi@mweb.co.zw Phone: +263 9 296747
KENYA MISSION The Pre-Novitiate Director P.O. Box 2501 Meru Kenya e-mail: prenovomi@swiftkenya.com             prenovomi@yahoo.it Phone: +254 6430898