Healing, love: words that are easy to say, sound good, but translating them into action is very difficult. Close to the wounds, poverty, destitution, the difficult conditions in which they live without basic medical care, without organised education, make them unable to cope on their own and they look to us as their support and spiritual refuge. They thirst to know Orthodoxy, to be baptised, to be reborn. And we do not deny them…
The person in charge of this ministry, Fr. Kallinikos, often tells us that we need to increase the quantity and quality of food so that the children can withstand the hardships and the difficult environment in which they live. We look at him with embarrassment and sadness. Everything requires sacrifice. The poverty that surrounds us hinders us. We do what we can, but we know it’s not enough…
The cultivation of plants, vegetables, fruit trees in our nurseries, greenhouses and cultivated areas, apart from curing our own needs, is also a means of maintaining our Monastery, so that we can have a small economic self-sufficiency, but also an apprenticeship of the young native novices of our Monastery in the profession of gardener…
In the Morogoro region we have already established four new parishes with about 2,000 converts, of whom 450 belong to the Maasai tribe. It is there that we will need to build four new churches…
If trained personnel are available, the machine is capable of drilling 24 wells per year. We have obtained a country-wide drilling license from the State of Tanzania and we are working with the Ministry of Water for laboratory testing of the water quality of the wells drilled. These are then recorded in the state’s general well inventory
While he was walking and monologuing, he suddenly saw a car driving around with abnormal turns and movements. He immediately ran after it and, in spite of the danger of being injured, skilfully tried to get in front and succeeded in stopping it. To his great surprise he noticed that the driver had lost consciousness and the car was moving without control
The tours in the countryside have continued, despite the many new difficulties we have. Mbuji-Mayi, Kabinda, Nkanka, Mbaza-Ngungu, Kikwit. The pastoral tours in the interior of Congo helped us to follow closely the efforts of our priests and catechists, the possibilities and problems of our mission, to rejoice and pray with our faithful and to ask God to send workers of His Gospel…
Sunday 12 November
11 a.m.
Nine of our girls who finished their studies are now working in our English school. My dream is to leave the school in Orthodox hands. Otherwise, without Orthodox witness and perspective we are straying from our purpose…
Representatives from all our communities came to the city of Medan. We were very happy because we had the opportunity to get together again. Our believers received much strength and direction for the continuation of the mission in this region…
