Charity

The 10th Annual Toy Drive

The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles announces the 10th Annual Toy Drive benefitting the Toys for Tots foundation.  This year the Diocese Toy Drive will run from October 31st  through 

Collection for the Saints

Ministering to the needy requires raising money, and collecting money in church is a sensitive issue that stirs numerous opinions, which can be controversial. The Church has its spiritual message - which is witnessing for Jesus Christ before the whole world and preparing its children for the Kingdom of God. When the Church cares about collecting money, there is skepticism about the basic mission of the Church; this matter is not new in the life of the Church.

Diocese and Santa Verena Charity Initiate Agape Program

Financial aid became a dire necessity for low income families in Egypt because it consumes a huge portion of their income. In most cases these families barely have enough income for food, so they resort to dropping their kids out of school which is known as Evading education.

The Agapy Program of St. Verena charity focuses on these types of families and helps them by offering a grant for the amount of L.E 800 to every student.

With the increasingly rising cost of living, this amount is not enough for all the financial demands that comes with education like clothes, books, and school tuition, in addition to tutoring classes which became a basic necessity for education in Egypt.

Important Message from Bishop Serapion & Bishop Youssef (English Version)

Our Beloved, the Blessed Children of the Holy Church,

Peace and grace from our God and Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ.

It gives us great pleasure to see how the Church’s children living abroad are greatly concerned about helping our needy brothers and sisters in Egypt , especially the orphans. We find that it is written in the Holy Bible, “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Fr. is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27)

We pray that the Lord may bless your offerings and efforts towards helping your needy and suffering brothers and sisters in Egypt .

Important Message from Bishop Serapion & Bishop Youssef (Arabic Version)

أحبائنا ابناء الكنيسة المباركين

                        سلام ونعمة من إلهنا ومخلصنا ربنا يسوع المسيح

 

يسعدنا إهتمام ابناء الكنيسة فى المهجر بمساعدة إخوتنا المحتاجين فى مصر خاصة رعاية اليتامى . فالكتاب المقدس يقول: " الديانة الطاهرة النقية عند الله الآب هى هذه أفتقاد اليتامى والأرامل فى ضيقتهم وحفظ الإنسان نفسه بلا دنس فى العالم." (يع 1: 27 ).

نصلى أن يبارك الرب فى عطاياكم ومجهوداتكم وينمى محبتكم نحو إخوتكم المحتاجين والمتألمين فى بلادنا الحبيبة مصر.

The Gift of Giving

With only two weeks before Christmas, there was one lady ‎in the hospital recovering from an illness. She had a large, ‎loving family who visited her regularly and attended to her ‎needs. When she came back from surgery, she awoke to a ‎room full of several cards and bouquets of flowers. She also ‎realized that she had another patient staying with her.