Support the monastery
Every lamp, every roof tile, every loaf
The monastery has no parish behind it and no endowment. Since 1994 it has stood on gifts — money, materials and work, offered by people who wanted this place to exist. Below is where the need is now, and every way there is to meet it.
Give now
Two ways, both direct
Card or PayPal
Give any amount, once or every month
You do not need a PayPal account — the page accepts debit and credit cards. Choose the monthly option if you would rather give a little at a time.
Zelle
Straight from your bank, no fees
Send to the address below from your banking app. Please write what the gift is for in the memo — or leave it blank and the sisters will put it where it is needed most.
Would you rather speak to someone first? Telephone (574) 654-7994.
Other ways to give
Not everything the monastery needs is money
A greenhouse needs lumber. The kitchen needs pots. The garden needs soil. Gifts in kind are received with the same gratitude as cheques, and they arrive faster.
Wish list
Buy something from the list
The sisters keep a list of what is wanted in the kitchen, the guest house and the workshop. Anything bought from it is delivered straight to the monastery — nothing to arrange, nothing to carry.
Open the wish listIn kind
Materials, tools, appliances
Building materials, garden equipment, kitchen appliances, a vehicle, professional services. Telephone before you deliver anything so the sisters can tell you whether it is still needed and where to put it.
Write to the monasteryOwn a project
Take one thing on this list and see it finished
These are the works waiting at the monastery right now. Some are a single afternoon of a tradesman's time; others will take a family, a parish or a fellowship a year to see through. Write or telephone and the sisters will tell you what the one you have chosen costs today.
Church
- Repair the leaking roof
- Repair the bell tower and fit screens
- Replace or repair the wooden doors beneath the bell tower
Konak — the sisters' residence
- Redesign the plumbing and add water filtration
- Replace the parquet floors
- Paint the walls
- Replace the windows
Guest house
- New kitchen appliances
- Replace the furnace
- Replace the air conditioning
Pavilion
- Replace the air conditioning units
- Plumbing
- A new kitchen
- New restrooms
The grounds
- A greenhouse
- A prefabricated building for candle making
- A professional embroidery machine
- Soil and fertiliser for the gardenBefore Memorial Day
- A cellar for potatoes and onions
- A smokehouse for fish
- A bakery for bread and prosphora
- A workshop for embroidery and sewing
Garden and land
- Work with an agronomist on the use of the eleven acres
- Sowing and planting
Share your talent with us
The list above needs hands as much as it needs money
Much of what stands here was built by people who came for a weekend with their own tools. If you have a trade, a licence, or simply a free Saturday, the sisters will find work for you — and feed you.
Trades and repairs
Roofing and carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, heating and cooling, painting and finishing, windows and doors.
Garden and land
Agronomy, orchard and vegetable growing, machinery, fencing, groundskeeping across eleven acres.
Handwork
Embroidery, sewing, candle making, icon mounting, bookbinding — the workshops the sisters are building up.
Kitchen and household
Baking bread and prosphora, preserving, cooking for feast days, laundry and linen for the guest house.
Your name in the sisters' prayers
The living and the departed are remembered in the sisters' daily prayers and at every Liturgy. Send the names you would like read.
Send namesCome and see the place first
Nobody should have to give to somewhere they have never stood. The church is open, the grounds are quiet, and Liturgy is at nine on Sunday.
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