A Banner Year for OCMC’s 2006 Mission Teams !!
A Banner Year for OCMC’s 2006 Mission Teams !!
May 31, 2006
The Orthodox Christian Mission Center , St. Augustine, FL – OCMC’s 2006
Mission Team Program has experienced a phenomenal year as mission team
members prepare to follow in the foot steps of saints.
Each year the Mission Center sends out groups of 2 to 24 volunteers to
various countries. These volunteers donate their time, money and energy
to witness the Orthodox Christian faith through a variety of activities.
The trips last from one to five weeks and the majority take place
between July until early October.
This year the Mission Center successfully approved over 122 team
members, the most ever , who will teach, build, baptize, nurture and
heal in Orthodox communities around the world. Ten are seminarians
from schools like Holy Cross, St. Vladimir’s, St. Tikhon’s and St.
Herman’s while others come from various churches throughout the United
States . What makes this year so incredible is the amount of people that
have been invigorated to participate in mission teams such as eleven
members from St. Barnabas Church in Huntington Beach , California ,
eight from Annunciation Cathedral in Baltimore , Maryland and six from
Holy Trinity Church in St. Augustine , Florida .
All these teams will assist in the many needy communities all over the
world. These projects range from teaching about the faith in India and
Tanzania ; building a church in Kenya , caring for orphaned children in
Guatemala , offering medical assistance in Uganda , nurturing youth in
Albania and Romania . Closer to home, the Mission Center will also send a
team to Alaska were they will teach, provide a dental outreach program
and assist in light construction. Each host community appreciates the
mission team relationship, cross-cultural experience and the renewal and
rejuvenation that the experience brings to their community.
This year also marks a collaborative partnership between sister SCOBA
agencies, IOCC and OCMC, as a health care team prepares to serve in
Ethiopia, educating local health care providers working with people
living with HIV/AIDS.
But the success doesn’t end there! This year will also have four health
care outreach trips which will include four medical doctors to Uganda ,
three counselors to Romania and two dentists to Alaska .
As each team member represents a visible expression of love, unity and
support which truly exists within the Holy Orthodox Church, they come
from many different backgrounds such as teachers, clergy, seminarians,
youth workers, contractors, health care professionals, students,
housewives and those willing to offer their skills and love during this
“hands on” program to implement and serve the Lord’s Great Commission –
to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations”.
For more information about getting involved in a Mission Team or
supporting a member, please contact the Orthodox Christian Mission
Center at team@ocmc.org or call (904) 829-5132 . Details for this year’s
Mission Teams available are available on our website at www.ocmc.org .
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The Orthodox Christian Mission Center: Helping Orthodox Christians
respond to Christ's call to preach, teach, baptize, minister to the poor
and make disciples of all nations as the official international mission
agency of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in
the Americas (SCOBA).
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