Dear friends of the Mission, Sitting in my office and planning the daily schedule, I suddenly noticed someone come in. It was the person in charge of the kitchen for the little children who we offer breakfast and lunch daily. He stood in front of me and courteously as well as shyly said to me:…
“This year, we reached the limit of not opening the theological school, we had no money to pay the priests, we had problems with children in schools and illnesses.”
Our new festive issue is out with news and reports from 14 missionary teams
He preached repentance and through that preaching he did missionary work. A paradox really… how is it possible for such a sermon to have an impact on the souls of people? And yet; it is, and very naturally so, since he was calling souls to return to their natural state, their pre-temporal relationship with their Creator, to their full rest, whether they were Christians or not…
The large number of people coming to Orthodoxy has created many parishes, which are deprived not only of parishes but also of holy temples. Already, with the help of God and pious donors, two new Holy Temples are under construction and we hope that they will soon be finished and operational…
Very early in the morning, hundreds of students began to arrive at the newly built school to attend the consecration ceremony of the first Orthodox school in Morogoro Prefecture, in a new fruitful missionary effort in eastern Tanzania, where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslims!
“The people welcome us with great joy and sitting under a tree, where there is no Holy Church, they watch the catechist with great attention and silence.”
His Beatitude did not conceal his joy for this unprecedented, unprecedented, reception accorded to him by the faithful people of Accra, emphasizing in particular the spiritual role of the Patriarchate and the untiring interest of both himself and the Metropolitan concerned, together with his associates, clergy and laity.
Such a mission needed a bold call and vision. Missionary work up to that time had only been done on the African continent. In Latin America, Orthodoxy was something unknown, remote and confined to the East. With patience and perseverance the Metropolitan opened the door giving us the opportunity to know and recognize that Orthodoxy is not a national Christian denomination but the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ….
Presentation by Metropolitan Nikephoros of Kinshasa
Sunday 9 December, 11.00 a.m.
