Decani Monastery Relief Fund Now On Facebook
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From: Reverend Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes
Date: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:29 PM
Subject: The Decani Monastery Relief Fund (38)
Greetings in our Lord,
May our Gracious God always bless you! I pray you are having a great spiritual journey during holy Great Lent.
Thanks to God now the Decani Monastery Relief Fund is now on facebook and has it’s own facebook. See the attached. Note also the info page.
For this blessing I would like to offer deep humbly thanks to Basil Jeremy Danneholm from Denver, Colorado who offered to help set up this site for our fund. Please pray for him.
God bless you!
Peace to your soul!
Humbly in Christ our Lord,
+Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes
President of The Decani Monastery Relief Fund Inc. USA
Who prays for you!
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Decani Monastery Relief Fund Charitable Activities
Information about the charitable activities of the Decani Monastery Relief Fund is available on their Facebook Info page:
The Decani Monastery Relief Fund (DMRF) is a completely non-profit organization. Information regarding the Fund’s financial operations may be viewed by going to the following web site: http://www.serfes.org/missionary/charter.htm
All donations made to the DMRF are forwarded as quickly as possible to volunteers in Serbia who immediately use this cash resource to distribute financial and/or material aid to persons in need of assistance. No portion of any donation is used for administrative or overhead costs– 100% of every donation is dispersed to aid recipients. Volunteers in both Serbia and in the USA donate their own funds, as well as their time, to assure that your donations in their entirety are used to address the needs the DMRF exists to alleviate.
The DMRF desires to alleviate those who are constantly in need of food, fuel, shelter, and medical attention, as well as assist the needs of the recent Orthodox Monasteries and Churches throughout the Province of Kosovo and Metohija. This fund as well seeks to help the youth and elderly in these same regions.
The fund currently supports six soup kitchens and one bakery – which produce bread loaves, a vitally important part of diet in this region. It also funds the delivery of bread and other foodstuffs to villages and provides daily lunches to four schools as well as shoes and clothing for youth of all ages.
Your fund supports 61 scholarships to the University of Northern Kosovo and also scholarship assistance for Serbian youths at Boise State University, and at Hellenic College/Holy Cross Theological Seminary, as well as financial assistance to Serbian immigrants in Boise, Idaho
Other important issues, needs and problems addressed by our Fund include: refugee centers and camps; special needs of the elderly; electricity bills; firewood during winter months (including schools!); necessary medical (and surgical) procedures; Orthodox celebrations of Christmas and Easter-Pascha; shortages of hay and farm equipment.
The Fund has also purchased pigs for 200 families annually!
The needs in Kosovo-Metohija continue to increase as events in the region continue to leaving many homeless and indigent.
The Decani Monastery in Kosovo
† Kosovo, Serbia – ” The Glory Of High Decani ” / Slava Manastira Visoki Decani 1 Of 2
† Kosovo, Serbia – ” The Glory Of High Decani ” / Slava Manastira Visoki Decani 2 Of 2
The Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox Monastery is both a vital monastic community and a valuable and endangered historical site within occupied Kosovo.
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To learn more, please visit the diocesan website:
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren: Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox Monastery
Originally posted on 1389 Blog.
