Orthodoxy in Ghana
His Eminence Metropolitan Narcissus of Accra speaks about the work of the Orthodox mission in Ghana
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To keep the light from going out
The basic characteristic of a clergyman should be the spirit of sacrifice and not of inactivity. This means that the clergyman must sacrifice himself for the Church and not sacrifice the Church for himself. Keep your ears open for every contribution, wherever it comes from, because there is always something to learn from everyone…
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A human story, full of God
One morning on an August Sunday, we were waiting at our Mission Centre for a priest from Sierra Leone who had brought his Elder, who was suffering from the incurable disease in various parts of her body, to Ghana for health reasons. Father Alexander, that morning came alone because his Elder was in the hospital….
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Akooaba! It means “Welcome”
At the end of January a meeting of the Orthodox communities is organised in the village of Fomena. Believers from all over the country gather here, where the place is arranged as a camp, and for 4 days they praise and glorify God on it.
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The place was a desert
We don’t have enough food for that many people. Only five loaves of bread and two fish. It is obvious that human logic, “arithmetic”, limits, while God’s logic removes the limitations…
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Mission in South Sudan (part b)
The Mission in South Sudan takes its first steps…
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Mission in South Sudan (Part A)
Enjoy selected parts of the speech of Metropolitan Narvis of Nubia at the hall of our Fraternity in March 2015
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Experiences and experiences from South Sudan
We didn’t have an incense burner for the consecration ceremony and so looking for a makeshift solution of the moment, all I could find was a magazine for bullets from a Kalashnikov gun…
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The children of South Sudan
By their baptism today, these children are tacitly declaring, to the whole Western society of conformism and indifference to the Church of Christ, that life is not only about survival but transcends it…
