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St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church 1220 S. 60th Ct. Cicero, IL 60804 Very Rev. Fr. Nicholas Dahdal Church of the Virgin Mary 12147 S. Cicero Ave Alsip, IL 60803 708-239-0004 www.virginmaryoc.org Read More about them?	St. Luke Lutheran Church 9100 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910	Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church 451 West Madison Avenue Placentia, CA 92870 714 985 1710 hcmelkite@earthlink.net www.holycrossmelkite.org Rev. Fr. James Babcock, Pastor Rev. Dcn. Edward Faulk, Pastoral Assistant	Sabeel PO Box 49084 Jerusalem, Palestine 91491 942-2-532-7136 sabeel@sabeel.org Friends of Sabeel North America (Main office in the U.S.) PO Box 9186 Portland, Oregon 97207 Phone: (503) 653-6625 Email: friends@fosna.org
Arabic Alliance Church 905 Mason Dearborn MI - 48126 Contact Info: Haytham Abi Haydar Phone: 313-274-1120 Fax: 313-274-6787 Email: Haytham-abi-haydar@hotmail.com		St. Anne Church Rev. Fr Albert Wehbe, Pastor Rev. Fr Alam Alam, Assistant Pastor Rev. Dcn. George Sayegh Rev. Dcn. Marion Rimmer Rev. Dcn. George Karout 11211 Moorpark St. North Hollywood, CA 91620 Phone: (818) 761-2034	Bethlehem Media Center PO Box 162 Paul VI St., Bethlehem, Palestine   Tel: +972 (2) 277 0047 Fax: +972 (2) 277 0048 www.annadwa.org csansour@annadwa.org
Metro Detroit Christian Church 33045 Hamilton Court, E117 Farmington Hills MI - 48334 Contact Info: Peter Dresser Phone: 248-489-0210 Email: info@metrodetroit.org		St. Jacob Mission Melkite 2766 Navaho Rd. El Cajon, CA 92020 (Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church) Phone: (619) 588-6536	Ramallah Christian Outreach Pastor Munir Kakish www.hnlife.org pastorkakish@hnlife.org
Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church 950 N. Grace Street Lombard, Illinois 60148 Telephone: (630) 932-9640 FAX: (630) 932-9463		St. Paul Mission Melkite Rev. Fr. Alexei Smith, Pastor Rev. Dcn. Irenaeus Dione 538 Concord St. El Segundo, CA 90245 (St. Andrew Russian-Greek Catholic Church) Phone: (310) 322-1892	ALAMEH Evangelical Lutheran 6705 Hohman Ave, Hammond, IN, 46324 ALAMEH Evangelical Lutheran, 8765 W. Higgins Rd, Chicago,IL,60631
Arabic Baptist Church, Pastor Winston,Mazakis 7654 W. Berwyn Ave, Chicago,IL,60656		St. Philip Mission Melkite Rev. Fr. Justin Rose, Pastor 932 Congress St. San Bernardino, CA 92410 Phone: (909) 889-3579	Arabic Bible www.arabicbible.com T arab Evangelical and Baptist Churches  in the US.
St. Elias Church, Pastor Paul,Albert, 4940 Harroun Rd, Sylvania,Ohio,43560		Virgin Mary Mission Melkite 28900 Front St. #105A Temecula, CA 92590 (909) 308-1060
St. Elias Lutheran Church, Pastor Gabi Aelabouni Former Pastor Rimon,Said, 1500 W. Elmdale Ave, Chicago,IL,60660 773-810-9618 steliasChicago@yahoo.com			Al-Bushra www.albushra.org veryfriendlyto@aol.com Fr. Labib Kobti
St. John Baptist Melkite Catholic Church, 200 E. North Ave, Northlake,IL,60164 Fr. Rabat Phone: (708) 865-7050 Fax: (708) 865-7050 A Parish of The Melkite-Greek Catholic Diocese of Newton MA			The Lutheran World Federation Office for Communication Services 150, route de Ferney P. O. Box 2100 CH-1211 Geneva 2 SWITZERLAND E-mail          pmu@lutheranworld.org
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, 15 W. 455 79th Street, Burr Ridge,IL,60521			ELCA Middle East Networking Division for Global Mission, ELCA www.elca.org/middleeast 800-638-3522, ext. 6466 www.elca.org/peacenotwalls
St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church Pastor Ishaq,Tanious, 2100 N.W. Frontage Rd, Palatine,IL,60078			Jerusalem Patriachate www.jerusalempatriarchate.com
St. Martin Melkite Church Hammond, Indiana Father Samir 219-933-1457			Melkite Catholic Churches of America View Church Directory
Holy Transfiguration Antiochian Orthodox Church 28 W. 770 Warrenville RD. Warrenville IL. 60555 Fr. Bill Calderoni 630-836-1319 All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church 4129 W. Newport Chicago IL. 60641 Fr. Patrick Reardon 773-777-0749			St. Vincent de Paul Society New Gate, Casa Nova Street P.O. Box 54773 – Jerusalem Telfax: 972 2 6264432 svpjrs@netvision.net.il Read about them? Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation www.hcef.org Contact: Susan Kerin (301) 951-9400, ext. 217 skerin@hcef.org
Shabeebeh Team Arabic United Evangelical Church 2247 University St. Des Plaines, IL 60016 Tel. (847) 299-4466			http://www.ffhl.org/ http://www.cmep.org/
Arabic Nazarene church of Chicago 10456 S. Kedzie ave. Chicago IL 60655 For more information please call: Sami Al-deir:  (708)906-9494    Magdi Mossad: (219)614-5717 Mike Bassaly: (312)933-1608			Arab Christian Singles Comments@ArabChristianSingles.com Advertising Information: Advertising@ArabChristianSingles.com P.O. Box 550846, Jacksonville, Florida, 32255-0846

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St. Vincent DePaul Society, Jerusalem

Greetings,

Allow me to introduce to you the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Jerusalem, a very old society that we are reviving for the benefit of our remaining Christians in Jerusalem. Kindly take a few minutes to read the below:

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Jerusalem was first established in 1851. The Society is a fraternal Catholic organization of lay people who practice Christianity by helping those in need on a person-to-person basis. Leading each member of the local families to join together to grow spiritually by offering help to needy and suffering people, The Society functions in the tradition of its founder blessed Fredric Ozanam, and the patron of St. Vincent De Paul.

Due to the great turmoil in the Holy Land, the situation of the people is getting worse and worse every day, which has increased the demand for help. Many families are having problems in providing the daily basic needs.

The Society’s activities take place in different areas, which includes, visitation to elders in their homes, nursing homes, and sick people. It assists needy students in tuition fees for non-school/ non-university training and education, provides assistance with medical prescriptions, laboratories, hospitals, and rehabilitation of drug addicts, as well as distributing monthly cash for needy families in Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza Strip. The Society provides food to elders in nursing homes in addition to food distribution to needy families. Mortuary Services for the Christian community in Jerusalem and its surrounding areas are also provided.

The organizational structural of St. Vincent is made up of seven members of the board with the Chair-Person, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and three Consultants. Our current General Assembly consists of 32 members.

St. Vincent de Paul Society is a fully registered non-profit charity organization under the number 045

Our Goals

The main goals of our Society are summarized as follows:

1. Help the real needy and elderly in the Old City of Jerusalem.

2. Provide support medicine for non-Jerusalem cases living in Jerusalem

3. Resolve medical insurance cases for Jerusalem inhabitants to rejoin the government medical insurance program.

4. Give the opportunity for the students who have not finished school and will not join any university, to enroll in vocational training that will help them work in Jerusalem in different posts and jobs that will come back to them with a decent income for living.

5. Decrease the number of youth emigrating to foreign countries.

6. Develop greater self esteem in our youngsters and motivate them to learn and earn their living without relying on Church and Aid funds.

7. Help addicts to overcome their difficulty in various ways of recovery.

8. Provide basic funeral services for our dead.

9. Facilitate the best committal process for the deceased.

10. Provide Mortuary Services for the Christian community in Jerusalem and its surrounding areas.

11. Subsidize tuition fees for school and university needy students.

Brief History

In 1856 the Society opened the first hospital in Jerusalem, situated next to the Holy Sepulcher with a capacity to accommodate 18 patients; 10 men and 8 women.

In 1891 the Society’s activities expanded remarkably, new branches were opened in Bethlehem, Jaffa, Haifa, Salt and Nazareth.

During World War I when the difficult conditions of war led to famine and displacement of people, help was offered by the Society to refugees in Taybeh, Jifna, Birzeit and many other locations in the Holy Land.

Through the 1948 War, the Society extended help to those refugees who took shelter in the Old City of Jerusalem and the surrounding villages. A clinic was opened, children were taken care of, schooling, job training, clothing and sometimes even feeding.

The consequences of the 1967 war also led the Society to offer help wherever it was needed. We supported existing institutions such as hospitals, orphanages, vocational schools and others.

Since 1987, the Society with its modest means is still participating in alleviating the needs of those families affected by the current events in the Holy Land to include prisoners and their families, the unemployed, the sick and the aged.

For nearly 150 years now, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Jerusalem has been loyal to its mission. Visits to the sick and needy continue and financial assistance is offered on the basis of necessitate and with no discrimination of religion, sex or color

Our message

The task of the Society is limited only by its financial restrictions; the more the Society receives funds, the further it bestows out. The tending to the poor, needy, sick and those families afflicted by the consequences of injustice remains a cherished goal of the Society and its members in this Holy and yet troubled City of Jerusalem. Each of you our friends can be part of our circle of friends, by engaging in the following:

a. Making a Financial contribution

b. Volunteering with us.

c. Introducing others to St. Vincent de Paul Society Jerusalem

We are actually looking for contributions that will provide perpetual funding to assist St. Vincent de Paul in Jerusalem in helping the needy and continuing in its history of mission. Through the earnings of donations and endowments, St. Vincent de Paul Society will be able to continue it’s tasks in lending a hand to the poor and deprived.

If you would like to assist in this manner, we will be happy to receive your hand-outs, our address is:

St. Vincent de Paul Society

New Gate, Casa Nova Street

P.O. Box 54773 – Jerusalem

Telfax: 972 2 6264432

E-mail: svpjrs@netvision.net.il

Thank you again for your endeavors to assist.

Norma Awwad

President – St. Vincent de Paul Society Jerusalem