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Welcome to the St. Gregorios Orthodox Church of Austin Website! Our Church belongs to the South West Diocese of America under the Malankara Orthodox Church led by H.H. Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, the Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan. Our present diocesian metropolitan is His Grace Alexios Mar Eusebius.
Operation Christmas Child 2015
Our part is very simple -
- Get the box from church
- Choose if you want to send it to a boy/girl and what age group,
- Pick quality gifts to put in the box,
- Pray for the box when you finished packing,
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Bring the box back to church by Nov 7th.
Heping to create a Safer Down Home Ranch
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Video Part 1Good Friday Charity 2015
Every year, we receive many applications as part of the GFC, which contain life situations and stories of tragedies of ordinary people. This year was no different. Sharing a few of the stories that help each of us reinforce how our help is making a difference: A child (studying in 1st grade) crosses the road seeing her mother after getting off a school bus and a KSRTC bus hits her and goes over her leg and finally doctors had to amputate her leg, a student gets 96.7% marks, but is unable to continue her education since her parents can’t afford her higher education, Multiple widows living in houses that could collapse any time or having no houses to live in, having to deal with disabled children, losing husband to cancer, having to deal with brain tumor treatment of their children, and many more and the list goes on.
Thanking our Lord for all the blessings he has given us, we continued our tradition of using the Good Friday offertory to help people in need.
To learn more, attached below is the GFC 2015 report.
Fighting Hunger, Feeding Hungry
When a task is huge, the chance that we all might have heard at some point some one saying - 'dont try to solve the world hunger'. Every time I hear it, I have thought, what an excuse. And on the other end of the spectrum, is Mother Teresa's quote.
"If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one".
Six days a week, that is what keeps volunteers roll their sleeves and cook food at the Caritas of Austin Soup Kitchen for the scores of homeless people.
The volunteers of St. Gregorios Orthodox Church joined hands with the volunteers of Caritas in its fight against hunger by serving at the Soup Kitchen.
Holding hands with Manor ISD
St. Gregorios Austin volunteers joined the Manor ISD Student and Family Support Services department during its 15th Annual School Resource Fair and helped pack school supply kits that was distributed at the School Supply Distribution event at the Manor New Tech cafeteria. It served more than 2,000 students on Friday, August 21, 2015.
Read more at Manor ISD website
Project 'Back to School' @ St. Gregorios Austin
Pidi Ari project turns One!
It’s been a year since we launched the Pidi Ari project, a monthly food drive project to support the local foodbanks and pantries in their fight against hunger and homelessness.
A year, ago, after the completion on a Sunday school food drive, which took couple of months to reach its goal, a thought came to few volunteers: why can’t we do this every month and create a culture of sustained giving in the church.
Learning from our traditions of our grandmothers: Our grandmothers had a rich tradition of sharing by taking a handful of rice every time they cooked rice and kept it in another container. At the end of the month, the altar boy from the church went door to door collecting this rice. This rice was distributed by the church to poor families who did not have enough for their daily meals. It was called Pidi Ari. (a handful of rice)
OVBS 2015
The St. Gregorios Orthodox Church, Austin, TX OVBS 2015 was held from July 24-26th.
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Sunday School Area Level Competitions 2015: St. Gregorios Austin takes it home
St. Gregorios Orthodox Church, Austin, TX takes home first place at the Sunday School Area Level Competitions 2015. Thank you Lord!
Care Packets for the Homeless
There was a sense of joy in the church as everyone’s hands were staying busy. The little children stood in line with open bags and wide smiles, as the older students quickly filled the emptiness.
On March 1st, St Gregorios Orthodox Church Sunday School and MGOCSM in Austin, Texas packaged 144 care packages for the homeless. Each pack contained various food and hygiene items.
The project was administered in partnership with Caritas of Austin, a nonprofit organization that provides financial and emotional support for numerous people in poverty within Travis County. Their community development coordinator, Grace Alrutz, worked hand in hand with the church to provide information and support behind the project.
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Pidi Ari Project
Making a Difference, one can, at a time...
15429 lbs
of canned food donated since the start of the project. Thank you!
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