Pan-Orthodox Educational, Religious, Social and Welfare Programs of merit within the Orthodox Christian Church
Litsted on this page are the organizations that the Women’s Guild support with yearly donations. You can find out more about each organization by clicking on the name listed.
Mission: The Eastern Orthodox Foundation, is a home to some 100 people, who come seeking help and support due to mental impairments, disabilities, addictions, and other impairments and also for those whose events have brought them that they simply need a place to stay.
We are a monastic community for women of the Orthodox Church in America.
From our monastery’s Typicon: Inspired by the desert mothers and fathers, we model our lives as fully as possible on their life and witness, their martyria. We are called to be Orthodox Christian monastics in our own time and place as surely as they were. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. We are aware that the world around us is very different from the one they knew. We have the responsibility to balance our obligations to this world of noise and technology with our calling to choose to grow into the greater silence and simplicity of their lives.
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Matthew 25:35-36, 40 ‘For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me… as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
IOCC, in the spirit of Christ’s love, offers emergency relief and development programs to those in need worldwide, without discrimination, and strengthens the capacity of the Orthodox Church to respond: We envision that, by God’s grace, IOCC will respond, without discrimination, to those who are suffering and in need, to enable them to continue to improve their own lives and communities and to have means to live with dignity, respect and hope.
Monastery Marcha was established as a women’s monastery in 1975 by then Diocesan Bishop His Grace Bishop Dr. SAVA.
Teen SOYO seeks to integrate each young person fully into the Total life of the Church. SOYO brings its members to a deeper devotion to the Holy Orthodox Church, its faith, canons and worship. Teen SOYO creates and fosters ministries to encourage Members to commit themselves to living the Orthodox Faith daily. The combination of Worship, Witness, Service and Fellowship are the natural expressions of that commitment.
Orthodox Christian Fellowship – Greater Cleveland Chapter
Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) is the official collegiate campus ministry program under the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America. OCF is charged with connecting Orthodox college students—and those interested in the Orthodox Christian faith—to Christ and His Church.
Orthodox Christian Mission Center
“Make Disciples of All Nations” As the official missions agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States it is OCMC’s mission to make disciples of all nations by bringing people to Christ and His Church.
Our Mission: To strengthen Orthodox Christian communities and to share the timeless faith of Orthodoxy with the contemporary world through modern media: radio, the Internet, podcasts, DVDs, television and more.
Our Vision: To inspire the Orthodox everywhere, nurture our children in the faith, welcome back those who have lapsed, and with the joyful, Christ-centered message of the Church reach out to, invite and lovingly welcome,all those outside our Orthodox Christian family, making them our own.
Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration
The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration is a monastery for women under the jurisdiction of The Orthodox Church in America. It was founded in 1967 by Mother Alexandra (the former Princess Ileana of Romania) whose dream it was to provide a place where American Orthodox women from all ethnic backgrounds could come to live the monastic life and benefit from a liturgical cycle in English. Since that time, her vision has been fulfilled. The nuns, many of whom are converts to Orthodoxy, as well as the monastery’s many visitors, span a variety of backgrounds. We welcome a great number of non-Orthodox visitors as well.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Monastery
Nestled in the woods of south central Missouri, Presentation of the Virgin Mary is a women’s monastery open to pilgrims and those interested in pursuing the monastic life.
Project Mexico & Saint Innocent Orphanage
Project Mexico is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that performs works of mercy in the name of Jesus Christ, building homes for the poor in Mexico and by providing education and shelter for orphaned boys through St. Innocent Orphanage.
As the faithful, we boldly pursue our mission while espousing the following values: Acts of Mercy, Excellence, Education, Love & Compassion, Mission Work, Partnership, Witness.
Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery
The Monastery is under the authority of Metropolitan Savas of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate and is dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas.
Saint Herman’s House of Hospitality
The St. Herman House – FOCUS Cleveland is an Orthodox Christian house of hospitality. We are a non-profit, 501c3, charitable organization committed to serving the homeless and needy poor of Ohio City and Inner City Cleveland in a spirit of love and hospitality. As an expression of Christ’s love, FOCUS North America serves the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick and imprisoned by providing Food, Occupation, Clothing, Understanding, and Shelter.
The primary objective of the seminary remains the education and, as God wills, the ordination of spiritually mature Orthodox Christian men to the Holy Diaconate and Priesthood. The seminary also provides the necessary theological, liturgical, and moral foundations nurturing various vocations. The Church in Alaska seeks to retain a full complement of indigenous clergy and laity to fulfill Her purpose. Therefore, the seminary curriculum is arranged to prepare readers, catechists, religious educators, and counselors, as well as deacons and priests.
Saint John the Theologian Monastery
The Skete of St. John the Theologian is a small monastic community of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, located in northeastern Ohio. The monks are part of the brotherhood of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, sharing a common abbot and following the same rule of life.
Saint Mary of Egypt Orthodox Mission & Chapel
Mission Statement: To respond to the call of our Lord Jesus Christ through prayer and the offering of love and charitable service to the stranger and those in need.
Saint Paisius Orthodox Monastery
St. Paisius Monastery is an English-speaking monastery which lives out its monastic life with the blessing of His Eminence KYRILL of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR) and His Grace Bishop MAXIM of the Western American Diocese (Serbian Church). The sisterhood had its beginnings over 30 years ago in northern California. At the newly established St. Paisius Monastery, many young women began to gather around the Abbess, who was then joined by other nuns seeking a traditional coenobitic life. When the sisterhood numbered almost twenty, the need for a permanent location became paramount. The sisters found suitable property in the high desert of Arizona.
Saint Panteleimon Orthodox Christian Outreach
Our primary purpose is to provide group prayer services to Orthodox Christians who are unable to attend services and programs at a local parish. We serve residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other group homes. Additionally, we visit and minister to people who are not Orthodox yet desire to worship the Holy Trinity. It is our prayer that this ministry will be an asset to the Orthodox clergy and laity of our community.
Saint Sophia Orthodox Seminary
The primary, though not exclusive, goal of this seminary is to help form and train true Orthodox pastors, teachers, and leaders of the people of God who follow the example set by our Lord God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in His own earthly ministry.
Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary
The primary mission of the Seminary lies in providing the necessary theological, liturgical, spiritual and moral foundations for Orthodox men to become, as God so wills, good shepherds of His Holy Orthodox Church. At the same time, however, the Seminary also recognizes that many individuals choose to enroll in a professional theological training program for the fulfillment of needs other than those of ordained ministry. Among these are: preparation for general religious leadership responsibilities in parishes and other settings; advanced theological study; specialized ministry as religious educators or choir directors; personal spiritual enrichment. Therefore, St. Tikhon’s Seminary continues to support all honorable reasons for matriculation at the Seminary and participation in class.
Young Orthodox Christian American Mission Adventures
YOCAMA is an independent, non-profit organization. We seek to provide teens and young adults an opportunity to share the experience of working side-by-side with Native Americans who are helping to improve the quality of life in their own communities in the Navaho and Blackfeet reservations.
ZOE is a non-profit Christ-centered support organization with three major goals: to help women who need confidential emotional and spiritual support during crisis pregnancies; to assist Orthodox Christians seeking to adopt; and to provide an education for Pure Living and other resources.
