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Priests and ministers are counseled on how to deal with problems involving their congregations. The members of the grand commandery in Fresno have organized and paid for a Breakfast Ministry in conjunction with Alliant University, which is an institution specializing in psychology. It contributes also to the Armed Forces Children’s Charity. Our Arizona Legation regularly donates books to a Veteran’s Hospital.Īlso, the Grand Commandery contributes to the new Bob Hope USO Center at Los Angeles International Airport, which is providing expanded services to traveling military personnel.

Recently, the Grand Commandery of the West has established a relationship with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd whereby we not only provide funds for homeless women and children but also volunteers and the material proceeds resulting from food and clothes drives we hold concurrently with our local events. We were fortunate that during a visit to Los Angeles, His Beatitude addressed us at a luncheon outlining the current great need in the Holy Land among the Christian minorities. Since meeting His Beatitude Torkum Manoogian, GCMLJ, the Armenian Patriarch, on the Order’s Pilgrimage celebrating the 900 years of its founding, we have broadened our contributions to the Holy Land. The Beit Sahour Medical Center in Bethlehem has been able to be helped with our funds as well. The Order’s historical roots are in aid of Christians and the helpless in the Holy Land, and as we are under the religious protection of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, we have, over the years, contributed to humanitarian relief under his auspices. Vincent’s Medical Center in Los Angeles, and attended by officers of the local commandery and the Mendez brothers, world renowned transplant surgeons and founders of the Institute. This year a meeting was arranged at the National Institute of Transplantation (NIT), founded in 1984 at St. The film Christopher has been seen by over 10 million people throughout the United States and has been distributed for viewing by prospective organ transplant patients. The Western Commandery has been fortunate to be able to contribute to this campaign with a film produced by its member, Chevalier George Lilly, KLJ. The Grand Priory of America as a whole has over the last several years found a new charitable focus in Organ Transplantation. We have also contributed to a program providing shoes for the Hansen’s disease patients who continually need custom-made shoes.

The clinics use the funds for the purchase of special lab equipment, updating educational information, providing interpreters, and for the transportation of patients to the clinic. The clinics are located at the University of Southern California County Hospital in Los Angeles, the Contra Costa Health Clinic in Martinez and the San Diego City Health Department’s Hansen’s Disease Clinic. The Grand Commandery of the West, continuing the long tradition of the Order, contributes to the operation of three leprosy clinics in California. The Grand Commandery of the West has a long history of contributing both internationally for major disasters such as the Nicaraguan Earthquake and Asian Tsunami as well as locally for projects important to members.

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