Some Limitations to JPIC Work in the Order:

• Some JPIC provincial coordinators are working alone without the backup of a commission, sometimes with no orientation from the Provincial Government and with little or no moral or economic support.
• Lack of clarity between the role of an activist and a JPIC animator.
• Weak organisational skills among some JPIC animators: organisation of meetings, co-ordination, pursuit of goals and objectives and lack of creativity in incorporating JPIC into fraternal life and existing ministries.
• Some JPIC animators stop trying to do their job due to frustration, negative responses and indifference of the friars. Some prefer to work with like minded socially committed people and organisations.
• Insufficient attention given by authorities at most levels of the Order to aspects of Scripture, theology, spirituality, the General Constitutions and Franciscan documents related to the social dimension of the Christian commitment.
• Lack of ability by some JPIC coordinators to handle frustration and a desire to experience immediate results, rather that prepare the ground for greater receptivity in the future.