St Irene Orthodox mission centre Kenya was started in may 2010 by Fr Constantino's Eliud and his presbytera Triza.
Our mission has played big role in spreading the Orthodox faith in this community.
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Give something however
small to the one in need for it is not small to the one who has
nothing. Neither is it small to God if we have given what we could.
Alexander one of the orphans in St Irene Orthodox mission and
orphanage is seven years boy in class one He has been surviving
with $1 daily, $7 weekly $30 monthly This caters for his
food. He also spend $15 monthly for clothes/shoes ,and education
stationeries. So basically he spends $45 monthly. This has
enabled Fr Constantinos Eliud to bring up such holistic and God
fearing Alexander. Please with your kindness spare your one bottle
of soda or cake and donate your $1 to our mission Website
www.stireneorthodoxmission.org
PayPal account. To facilitate feeding
program in st Irene orphanage of either Alexander or other 30
children that stay with Alexander in the orphanage.
It's hard to grasp the cross of another unless we have gone
through this experience ourselves. However, with the help of our own struggles
and the cross that we each take, we can learn to appreciate the struggles that
others take.
Although we can not know our neighbor's personal struggles,
we can try to understand the cross of our brother, approaching with humility.
The sincere recognition of our own weakness will help us to understand his
weakness, and so we learn to share the crosses of each other.
If we fail to recognize our own weakness, then we can not
really share the weakness of others. We do not help them carry their cross, and
they are prevented from wearing ours. We remain alone in the tears of our
isolation.
In the Cross of Christ, all our crosses are united. In His
love, we will raise them together; In this shared pain, we find the grace and
joy of God.
Fr Constantinos has been working very hard at the mission.
Yesterday he visited a family whose eldest child has cerebral palsy. There are
also several younger children all living in very basic rental housing. The
mother has requested that Father Constantinos assist by taking the younger
children into the mission to assist with their education on all levels, as well
as housing and pastoral care. In order to continue to provide this level of
service, Fr Constantinos and the mission require assistance with funding, by
way of sponsors and donations. Currently there the classroom also serves as a
church and the property is being rented. Fr Constantinos is aiming to buy land
and construct purpose built dwellings and a well to ensure a clean water.
Please donate whatever you can. No amount is too small.
Today was a great and blessed day to us here in St Irene Orthodox mission and orphanage. The Archbishop Makarios Tillyrides Kenyas visited us This is his message to all our donors/sponsors, friends,and all those who pray and support us by donations.
St Irene Orthodox mission center and orphanage is so much affected by the drought and frost our country Kenya is experiencing. Archbishop Makarios has declared too in a letter that he gave to me as a blessing of sourcing donations worldwide.
It is my humble and sincere request to you all please consider donating
to St Irene Orthodox mission and orphanage PayPal account in our
website. www.stireneorthodoxmission.org or else in our mission account:
Name: St Irene Orthodox Mission Center Bank:KCB A/c no:1200959485 Swift code:KCBLKENX.
Your $1,$10,$100,$1000 $200,$300,$500 and the like help me to feed,clothe,and shelter orphans, vulnerable children, both infected and affected by HIV/AIDs.
God bless you as you extend your hand to this noble mission.
Spare your one bottle of soda and help one orphan.
His Eminence at St. Irene Mission Center in Njambini.
His Eminence spoke
to the school children and to the parents. He encouraged the children
to study hard and to obey their parents. Fr. Constantine is doing a
great job and the children and school are going on well.
Dear
Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Glory to Him forever!
Kenya. Officially the
Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa and a founding member of the East
African Community (EAC).
In Nyandarua County Engineer, about 90 km from
Nairobi, the capital of the country, is located the Saint Irene - Orthodox Mission Center, where I and my presbytera Triza manage this center.
We have a number of about
one hundred orphans or very poor children between the ages of 3 and 18. Needs
and poverty are very high. Living conditions are rudimentary, poverty is at
home. We are working hard with our volunteers to provide children with minimum
education, food and clothing services. We also offer children and all residents
of the area, religious services, catechism and religious education.
The love of
Christ manifests itself most alive in Orthodoxy.
Goodness, compassion, mutual
help, love of neighbor, charity and good deeds are the ingredients of this
wonderful spiritual work. All are poor, lacking the most basic living
conditions, no electricity or running water, without some basic facilities
necessary for living, without which a child in developed countries can not
actually live.
In the shift are very happy! They have found the eternal
happiness in Jesus Christ, our Lord! It's amazing! A chubby child, always hungry, dirty and thirsty, you see him with a smile on his lips all the time.The soul
happiness that comes from the cleansing of the soul, sincerity and simple
living, only multiply the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
The water brings it along
with children and volunteers from a river that is a few miles away.
We transport it to the
center in plastic barrels and we use it both for food preparation and for
drinking.
The barracks of the planks
are used both for classrooms, kitchens or places of worship, where they perform
the Holy Liturgy and other Christian Misteryes. We have baptized hundreds of
children, young and less young, teaching all the Word of Truth.
Please believe me, without
your help and love, I could not do anything. According to the word of Christ
the Savior, "You can not do without Me!" I have done with Him,
through you, absolutely everything! I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
I taught them to praise the
Lord in song and prayer. We pray for you our brethren in faith, and we will all
remember in our prayers! Be with your soul in our troubles and poverty! I beg
of all my heart to help me to help these little children, in whom the image of
God shines. They enjoy for very few gifts! For a cup of tea and a slice of bread,
for a hat or pair of stockings, for a cheap coat or even for a bottle of clean
water. They are not pretentious!
Today I sang all to God, I
praised Him and I glorified Him with a banging of his hands, at the urging of
the Psalmist. Their little souls were glad, but I was sad because I was
thinking that tomorrow morning I had nothing to give them to eat. But I have
great hope in Christ! It will surely help us, as it is so far!
Please join us! Be our
benefactors, your humble men!
Give us your little one! I
know you're going through the hardships, but a small coin for us means a lot!
Be our dear sponsors!
To help us visit our website and donate through PayPal.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and took me in, naked
and you clothed me....verily I say to you,in as much you have done it
unto one of the least of these my brethren,you have done in it unto
me. (Matthew 25:35-36,40)
The
expenses of the commodities has gone higher coz of drought and this
has made our yearly budget to go higher from $40000 to $72000.
Here is the
breakdown of our needs.
FOOD $1
per day per child. $30 per child per month $96 per day for the
entire mission $672 per week for the entire mission $2880 per
month for the entire mission
CLOTHING $2per
month per child $192 per month for the entire mission
HEALTH
CARE $100 per month for the mission This includes occasional
doctors visits,medications and first aid supplies
SCHOOL
SUPPLIES $3 per child per month $288 per month for the entire
mission
OPERATING
EXPENSES Rent $1500 monthly Caregiver salaries $1000 ten
caregivers each receive $100 per month
If
you want to contribute to this vital project, you can donate through
PayPal by clicking here: www.stireneorthodoxmission.org
My passion and dream to start an orphanage and
a mission centre was triggered by my humble and poor background. With
me is my mother who took me to church at a tender age my Dad passed
on long time ago when I was still in school.... After along
suffering with my mum and other siblings I got an opportunity and got
educated by the church. So in the year 2010 I decided to give back to
the society by starting an orphanage and mission center by the name
St Irene Orthodox mission center. Today I visited my mum and she
was Much happy of my good work in the mission.
Thanks
all for your financial support and prayers...please continue donating
for us and you will remain blessed www.stireneorthodoxmission.org
is our new website.
"He who has compassion on the poor lends to God and He will repay Him for his good deed" (Proverbs 19:17).
The poor man who begs and the rich man who gives both are indebting the Lord, but only under the condition that the poor man begs in the name of the Lord with humility and that the rich man gives in the name of the Lord with compassion. Everyone who receives should know that he receives that which belongs to God and everyone who gives should know that he gives that which belongs to God. Such giving has a price and such receiving has a price. All of us enter this world naked and naked shall we leave this world. All of us are beggars before the Lord for we possess nothing that we have not received from the Lord.
Therefore, give to the poor man as God as given to you. You take what is another's and you give to your own when you perform charity. The poor man is closer to you than all of your goods even as God, the Creator of men, every man is incomparably more precious than all of his goods. If you have been given riches, it was given to you for temptation: that your heart be tempted! That God and all the heavenly hosts see whether you understood from whom are all your riches and why they were given to you. Blessed are you if you know that your goods are from God and belong to God! Blessed are you if you consider the poor as your companions, among your family members and share with them from that which God has entrusted to you!
O how immeasurable is God's love for mankind! Behold, all that you have belongs to God but, nevertheless, God considers Himself your debtor if you take from Him and give to the poor and He will repay you for your good. What kind of mercy can be compared to this!
O Man-loving Lord, open our minds to understand the mystery of Your mercy and soften our hearts as wax, that as wax they burn and shine with the reflection of Your inexpressible mercy!
To You be glory and thanks always.
Amen.
Please the lord is talking to you...consider donating to His lovely mission work St Irene Orthodox mission center www.stireneorthodoxmission.org and you will be blessed.
