I would like to express my gratitude to the Mission Fund for the generous grant offered to Galilee Centre for the maintenance and repairs of the centre and for the servicing of our two cars, four computers and a photocopier.

Galilee Centre, a retreat house run by the Jesuits, is situated 50 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It has been offering retreats to the religious and priests of the Ethiopia Catholic Church since 1968. For the last six years, the centre has been used by other Christian churches as well. We offer eight-day personally guided retreats and weekend retreats to seminarians in theology, junior religious, novices as well as to youth coming from different parishes and university students. Many religious and priests are attracted by the hospitality and by the beautiful volcanic lake and mountain view to spend a time of prayer and have an experience of God.

The cost of running this centre is more than we can manage, even when we take into consideration the local contribution of each retreatant and the donations of two foreign donors.

It was for this reason that I appealed for help to the Mission Fund and they responded generously.

I encourage readers to continue to send donations to the Mission Fund so as to be able to support the many Maltese religious and priests who are working in other countries. Donations can be sent on the following accounts: HSBC Acc. No. 061 197 448 050, Bank of Valletta Acc. No. 163 007 980 19, APS Acc. No. 200 008207 62 or Banif Acc. No. 008 879 631 01. More information on the Mission Fund is available at www.missionfund.org.mt.

Kindly support our work here at Galilee Centre with your prayers.