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There are types of people who would serve servants, and offer their facilities for the service.
Many women used to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and: “Provided for Him from their substance” (Lk 8:3). At the outset of the first church, Mariam, the mother of St. Mark the Apostle, left her home so that it may become the first church where the faithful would meet together and pray, St Paul the Apostle also told us about Priscilla and Aquila that : “The church that was in their house” (Rom 16:5), and also of the church that was in the house of Nymphas (Col 4:15). History also described for us the many services done for the churches and the monasteries by the two well known benefactors : Ibrahim El Gohary and his brother Girgis...
Also some people may not serve the villages but donate a car to take the servants to these villages.
Or they may prepare a place to be used for the service or buy Bibles, Gospels, Agpias, pictures, prizes or whatever the priest distributes from crosses and icons, or they may help in the administrative work of meetings such as writing the names of those who are present, prepare lists of those who are absent so that they may be visited later on and such services that seem simple but are necessary and of benefit.
And there are those who serve by praying for the meetings and their fruitfulness, and for problems and their solution.
Their prayers which are said in secret may be of greater benefit than those which are heard. The important thing, my brother, is to serve....
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