Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah for the 2009 Church Planting Grant Appeal
To the Venerable Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful
of the Orthodox Church in America
Dearly Beloved in Christ:
I recently returned from a visit to the Church of Russia, during which I was blessed to visit once again the Valaam Monastery. One of the great holy places of the Russian Church, this monastery holds a significant place in the spiritual legacy of Orthodox Christianity in America.
In 1794, a group of monks from the Valaam Monastery arrived on Kodiak Island, Alaska, to bring the Orthodox Christian Faith to a people eager to receive the Good News of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Because of the exemplary lives and efforts of those first missionaries, Orthodox Christianity was firmly planted on the North American continent, where it remains firmly rooted and continues to proclaim the fullness of truth.
Although the world has changed dramatically since Saint Herman and his companions first arrived in Alaska, the mission we have inherited from them has not. Following their example, we also are called to bring the fullness of truth found in the Orthodox Christian Church to the people of North America, to any and all who would receive it.
One of the many ways you can take part in this mission is by providing financial assistance through your support of the Orthodox Church in America’s Church Planting Grant Appeal — formerly known as the “Mission Appeal.” Your designated gifts will be shared with qualifying OCA missions, enabling them to grow and prosper by providing a portion of their rectors’ full-time salaries.
This year, Sunday, June 7, the Great Feast of Pentecost, has been designated “Church Planting Grant Appeal Sunday.” The mission entrusted to the apostles on that first Pentecost — the proclamation of the Gospel in its fullness — has also been entrusted unto us. Your generous gifts will enable our mission communities to continue the work of the apostles, as well as the first North American missionaries, in our time. Focusing solely on Christ, may we bring about a new, yet equally Spirit-filled Pentecost, through our efforts to proclaim the Good News in its glorious fullness!
With God’s Blessings,
+JONAH
Archbishop of Washington and New York
Metropolitan of All America and Canada
Dear in Christ,
Greetings in the matchless name of Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
we are seeing your website very useful our ministry
Our ministry area is in Coimbatore the District in Tamilnadu State . We are involved in various ministries.
We conduct personal prayer two days in a week. Lot of people belonging to various religions participates in the meetings. Many were delivered from various problems through this ministry.
This prayer meeting is conducted in a rental building. Once a month we gather together and pray for the revival in India and the blessing of the people in our city- this is a fasting prayer. Many people participate for these prayers. Many received miracle healing and deliverance from the clutches of demon.
Once in a month we conduct a fasting prayer in a auditorium. Every week on Sundays evenings we have prayers for the people who were under the bondage of various problems (deliverance meetings). Even the heathen people participate in these meetings. We have lot of testimonies. We will share with you in the near future for the testimonies.
Once a year by the grace of God we conduct a Deliverance festival (Crusade meetings) in a big open ground. Thousands of people attend in the meetings.
We were invited to preach the gospel in many churches. We go by a team and conduct the meetings.
These are the various kinds of ministries. We trust in God and do the ministry. We fully depend upon God and our ministry is a faith ministry… God provides all our needs.
As the ministry is growing fast and at present we are conducting the meeting in rental building we pray earnestly to God to have a own land and construct the church, that would help us to bring more people into the vineyard. We pray to God and you can assist our ministry as the Lord leads you.
Our future vision is to have the following ministries:
1. To start orphanages for the poor and needy children.
2. To start village ministry – preaching the Word in the interior villages and hamlets where there is no gospel.
3. Television ministry – presenting the Word of God through Television.
4. Hill tribe ministry. There are many tribal areas adjacent to Coimbatore city.
5.Widow and aged people orphanage
6.To start prayer cell
7.students education help
8.Pastor’s and Evangelist fellowship
9.Woman’s ministries
Please uphold our ministry in your prayers. Please pray for our ministry.
May the Lord use you mightily in India and save a group of people through your ministry. We pray that God would use you ministry throughout world. We uphold you, your family and the ministry in our prayers. Kindly pray for us.
looking forward to hearing from you.
in His Vineyard
by
DONALD ABRAHAM
E-mail :
miracleofjesusministries@ yahoo.com
miracledonald@gmail.com
http://freewebs.com/ miracleofjesus/
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C.DONALD ABRAHAM
MIRACLE OF JESUS MINISTRIES
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COIMBATORE.641002
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