I magnify my ministry!
Part Two
The word of God’s expansion to the world is the highest and foremost honored service to keep and adhere. Gospel has been expanded in this globe variously accord its historic development in religious order and command of the Lord.
It was primarily the preaching of gospel on “Church Assembly/Awede Meherete/Sebeket/” that enhanced in our country on 1977 E.C. Religious Fathers by then ordained as deacons were first to commence preaching’s in Churches. Fathers who were servile of Mahibere Kidusan spiritual association as Melake Selame Priest Dejene Sheferaw, Melake Areyam Priest Birhanu Gobena, Priest Eshetu Tadesse, Lieke Selitanate Priest Kefeyalew Tilahun, Priest Yigzaw, Teacher Fekadu Sahele and others Preachers had contributed highly to the promotion and expansion of holy words of God.
This was done through the council assembly, the commencement of publishing’s as “Hamere Magazine, Tsima Tisdike News Paper and Mestshate Teleko Magazine.” Soon after, it launched the biggest medias being its own television, as well as the fastest social Medias and started distributing the word of God by websites, face books, telegrams, and as such.
Mahibere Kidusan, under the department of the Ethiopian orthodox Tewahedo Church, Sunday School, has being providing numerous spiritual and social service by the support of all the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Laity found all over the world, for more tahn thirty years.
The Association has been engaged in the provision of various services under the constitution of the Church since its establishment in 1984 (E.C.) It has triumphed in successfully providing endeavors thru the consultation and order of Patristic Fathers following their footsteps.
Currently it has expanded its service and is able to establish 52 centers, 444 District Centers, 214 Communication Sites and 467 Campus Assemblies within the country as well as 7 Centers, 24 Sub Centers, 26 Communication Sites and 18 Campus Assemblies abroad.
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It is highly attempting to capacitate Orthodox Ethiopians who enter High Institutional Schools to be conserved with spiritual knowledge and discipline. This service of campus assembly is done on national and international governmental and non-governmental High Institutional schools. Thus, it has presented curriculum for the students to know their religion and live in Christian Endeavors to serve their country humbly and diligently.
It is working on focusing participatory works for the Campus Assembly students in addition to the spiritual knowledge within the curriculum, to learn the traditional education and service the Church. In this year, many students are set out for service after receiving Priesthood.
The association is doing triumph work on traditional education which has a big role for the continuity of the service of the Church. Particularly in solving national war, drought and pandemic diseases, Corona that occurred in our country. Traditional schools are highly endangered. We have seen several of these schools dispersing assemblies. To solve this problem, Mahibere Kidusan has reestablished the traditional schools, expanded traditional schools and has highly attempted to fructify and procure intellectuals which is anticipative for the future.
The traditional school’s students were not able to plead in the name of Holy Mother Mary and obtain their daily bread and clothing. Therefore, in solving this problems, Mahibere Kidusan has assembled laities and provided monthly donations for their daily expenses, for the purchase of clothes and book as well as the salary for the teachers of many traditional schools. By this, the weakened spiritual congregations are strengthened. Those which are waning are reopened. The number of students is also increasing.
It has especially fructified new councils on different parts of our country and procured Patristic Fathers enable to teach laities. For this reason, local churches closed due to lack of servile are reopened and hence laities whom have fled to other faiths have returned to their church.
The association is also contributing its part for the economic empowerment of Monasteries and to stand on their own as well as guide others. It has made the relevant support in supplementing the service of parades and monasteries through the collection of information of current matters causing problems. This will enable hermits to pray for the welfare of the country and public and reach up to brace laity socially and spiritually.
The Association has fee of an expense of 50, 000, 000 (Fifty Million) Birr in 2015 for strengthening traditional schools, aid monasteries and support spiritual institutional schools and traditional students by the collaboration of laity.
Laities are recently found in refugee camp derived from their houses, losing their possessions due to the conflicts that occurred on different areas of our country. Several priests, elderlies and children as well as pregnant mothers are found in this camp sheltered from these conflicts. Mahibere Kidusan regularly provide donation of nourishment and hygiene products for the victims with the collaboration of laities. This aid provided by the Skill and Social Department contains priest and laities whom are deprived out of the problems targeted on Church and laities.
As instance, we can mention the prompt aid and reinstatements of the deprived by the national war sheltered in the refugee campus, the indignant from the drought that occurred in Borena Zone, for the migrators in Welega, the victims of the 2015’s (E.C.) illegal papacy of bishops as well as the church servile and laity who fled from various areas of the countries.
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