The paper discusses Vatican II Council’s conception of Church as a “community of faith”. Assuming much of present day apathy towards the Church to be closely tied to the problem of understanding; it hypothesizes that clarification of terms would be an important key to resolving this problem and to enhancing discipleship in the Church today. Affirmative of the correlation between the Gospel and culture, the paper concludes that the African worldview on community is the appropriate model for interpreting the above conciliar definition of Church, and proposes the adoption of the same perspective of community for catechesis on the Church. The method is hermeneutic. Library and internet materials are used as sources of data.