I would like to express my gratitude to the Mission Fund in Malta for the generous grant offered to Galilee Centre for its maintenance and repairs 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 km south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It has been offering retreats to the religious and priests of the Ethiopian Catholic Church since 1968. For the last six years, the centre has been used by other Christian Churches as well.

We offer personally guided eight-day retreats and weekend retreats to seminarians in theology, to junior religious, to 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 and spend some time of prayer here.

The cost of running this centre is more than we can manage, even when we take into consideration the local contribution for each participant and those made by two foreign donors. It was for this reason that I appealed for help to the Mission Fund and they responded generously.

I encourage you to continue to send your donations to the Mission Fund to enable it to support many Maltese religious and priests who are working in other countries.

Kindly send your donations to one of the following accounts: HSBC [Acc. No. 061 197 448 050], BoV [163 007 980 19], APS [200 008207 62] or Banif [008 879 631 01]. For more information on the Mission Fund visit www.missionfund.org.mt

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