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Which do You Remember?

Dear Children of God! How are you? Glory to God! How is school and life with your beloved ones? We hope you have been well in your spiritual life and brave in church education.

Little ones! We have brought you a new type of lesson to know how much you remember the lessons we have been presenting to you until present.  It is entitled “Which do you remember?” And in accordance to the questions we have prepared below, you will send us your response on our website address website.english@eotcmk.org and https://t.me/Hiwot122716

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What is our Orthodox Church’s teaching on Gender?

Everything that is created by God specifically those attributes that relate to the image of God which all human were created on, is good (Genesis 1:31). When the human being uses and expresses all the God given faculties in a proper way as intended by God, in the proper time and proper place, these things lead to edification and even to salvation. This includes the expression of love through the means of marital relations and sexuality.

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Let us save our Social Life!

Alike times like this, in passing hardships, the life we make in unity with our families, relatives and neighbors is a strong bond and armament. Our Ethiopian forefathers have a proverb in the local language which is translated as “fifty lemons for fifty people, is jewelry; for one person, is a load.” The unity of people solves the extreme barricade.

The individual life we lead has its own consequences. Living in an apartment or isolated house lone, seeking and owning a silent surrounding, being in a state of earning an income and also leisure, having stable health devoid of any kind of illness and anticipate successful future, might only earn us temporary comfort; however in the long run brings many anxiety, distress, parting from God and spiritual failure.

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How long shall earth mourn?

It is true! the blood dribbled is not without punishment; innocence blood is a cause; it destroys generation to generation; it splits from inheritance; it rains fire and din burn earth; the persecution and the souls who kill innocence are unstoppable; their word echoes up to the heavens; they persecute seize not until their offspring’s and generations are abolished. The Lord of their soul is a true judge; justice is not unfair; He brings His justice upon and in earth; He shuts the heavens; shakes the earth; made earth bestow mercy and blessing; winds as plague and changed rain into snow; for we have not wished to return back!

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I magnify my ministry!

The whole of the community might have owns definition to the word “ministry or service.” Someone strive to have an interpretation within the acts of personhood, family hood as well as within community for “ministry.” It could be probability or improbability to recon whether one has adequate knowledge and comprehension about it; but there is great importance to its significance in the church system and thus creating awareness is off the essence.

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About Mahibere Kidusan

Name

The association was named Mahibre Kidusan (an association in the name of Saints) Saints would be commemorated in that they abounded the secular world and sacrificed their lives to the orthodox belief for whom the prophets prophesized and apostles evangelized.

History

In 1977 E.C (Ethiopian Calendar) few students of higher education initiated the youth in the compass to become members of Sunday school and know the teachings of the churches. Later, this effort had been strengthened by students trained in the Zeaway Hamere Berehan St.Gebreil Clergy Training Monastery by the Then Arch Bishop of Shewa Abune Gorgorious II.

The movements continued in Bilatie military camp that brought all students of higher institutions in the country in 1983 E.C after a year, with the blessing of the church fathers the associations was set up by the name “Mahibre Kidusan” under the Sunday School Department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Since then the associations has been proving spiritual service.

Vision

“Envisioning the Church fulfill its universal leadership role.”

Mission

Fructify and procure an organized, whole, eloquent, moderate, versatile and leader generation who strives in achieving the church’s mission and diligently work for her existence.

Institutional Asset

  • Spirituality: - It is the incarnation of the True Orthodox Religion, inveterate faith, good endeavors and spiritual knowledge; diligence God’s embodiment and cherishes the return to the Lord through the apostolic fight and a heavenly life; Thus, members are made by conversing and working in Christians endeavors at any state, period and condition. Trailing the path of patristic fathers, they serve humbly, faithfully with the trepidation of God.
  • Servanthood: -Members of the association serve with the indication of their Christian life, in a good will, seeking heavenly honor and grace, detesting worldly honor and praise vanity, sincerely, faithfully and with Christian love.
  • Leadership of Thoughts: - The association works in collaboration with leader of church concerned with the sustainability of the Church’s service necessary for the emit of orthodox ideas, with the timely thoughts and leadership
  • Cooperation - The association believes church’s service is activity of all members of the church. Therefore, it works in accordance to the issue, properly with shareholders and partners with affinity, discussion and sincerity for the unison of the mission, venerating sundry grace in incarnation.
  • Veneration of Professions: - It gives proper veneration and priority for skillful thoughts that do not contrast with orthodoxy education and are based with real information within any of its activities done by servile utilizing their various skill and knowledge of the association’s members, as they are congregated in serving the church. It also works for the endowment of proper veneration of the spiritual and carnal profession and professionals.
  • Rational Orator: - The association works for the challenge and resolution of the church’s internal and external obstacles, activities, habitual and histories based on the right data, clear and spiritual firm and truth.
  • Accountability: - Service of the association goal is embracing heavenly virtue. It therefore makes it accountable before God and the pupil as well, if it does not fulfill its responsibility properly. The manager or member in any of its ladder, is liable for the responsibility given within the work of the association.

OBJECTIVES

  • Empower the Church’s Institutional management, operating system and perception for a strong and time redeemer services, thru support of technology and various methods.
  • Expand gospel and apostolic mission multifaceted all over the world by organized and accessible centralized method.
  • Fructify and procure servile who are redeemer of the time, whole and orthodox, serving in the constitution of the Church as well as be active participants in the social, economic, political and on national management affairs through constructible curriculum, enabling students of Higher School Institutions attain full personhood
  • Preserving the Church thru firm apologetics based on the study and research about the blazon rumor on Church, spurious tales and trials of the Church activities by challenging and correcting the mistakes
  • Enhance the role of empowerment of children and youngsters by consolidating the Sunday School’s Capacity to empower the successor generation’s source
  • Executing organized and discerning services by constructing a family expressing orthodox spirituality endeavors and orthodox community maintaining its unity.
  • For the association to create an institutional working system redeeming the time, enabling the fulfillment of its mission. (in Management, Human Resource, Spirituality, Relation, Knowledge, Development, Finance and Technology)
  • Enhance the economic, social and political participation of orthodox through the principle of International Public Relation and Cooperatives Services.

Stand

The association shall not interfere in administrative affairs of the church and it is free from and political affiliation.

Membership

  1. Disciples who trained in various training institution of the church and providing ministerial activity.
  2. Higher institution students attending Sunday in their respective parishes.
  3. Member of Sunday school or/and parish that provide spiritual service after graduating from higher institution.
  4. The laity who support the objective of the association with their knowledge, money and labor.

Structure

Mahiber Kidusan is set under the Sunday School department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It provides spiritual services by its sub centers in the dioceses all over the country and in the Diaspora.