OSMTH INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS PROGRAM – 2019/20
Simon Le Fevre GCTJ
OSMTH Almoner General
Over the last few years, OSMTH has been fortunate to be able to build up the Order’s international reserve funds. At the Grand Magistral Council of OSMTH meeting, held in Milwaukee, USA, on 26/27 May 2019, the GMC gave approval to a limited program of charitable donations totalling 10,000 Euros (approximately 11,200 US Dollars) for the year 2019/20.
The OSMTH International Donations Program is designed to further the following Object set out in OSMTH’s International Statutes, which is:
- to encourage and promote Christian humanitarian work and charity generally, but especially in support of people in the Middle East;
in ways which are consistent with current key International Policy & Advocacy Positions of OSMTH, which are:
- to support religious and educational institutions, which seek to sustain a diverse Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East;
- to advocate, through United Nations' and other civil society forums, for human rights and with an emphasis on peacebuilding; and
- to support "Christians at Risk" in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East, by aiding the Christian diaspora and other threatened minority faith groups which find themselves in hostile environments, particularly by providing education and employment opportunities which allow them to remain in their ancestral homelands.
Three current recipient organisations are highlighted in subsequent pages of the OSMTH Carpe Diem:
NNDNN
Fraternally yours,
Non Nobis, Domine, Non Nobis, Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam
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