Creative Ways to Promote Missions
Creative Ways to Promote Missions
July 11, 2006
Orthodox Christian Mission Center, St. Augustine, FL – Individuals
across the United States are thinking of creative ways to promote the
Mission Center around their parishes and communities. Here are just a
few examples of the different types of support we have received:
Steven and Lisa Rigisich, along with their friends Eric and Teri White,
have a passion for wine but more importantly they have combined their
love for pinot noir into a worthy event that raises money for charities.
This year the Orthodox Christian Mission Center’s missionaries, the
Linderman Family, the Russell Family and Peter & Sharon Georges were
some the beneficiaries of this annual Bay Area Wine Project. As “Pinot
Days” was kicked off on June 23 – 25th, a portion of the proceeds
benefited these families who gave up their livelihoods to become
missionaries for OCMC.
From Joan Berg in Burr Ridge, Illinois - “In Response to a request form a
friend to provide basic necessities for a child at the Home for Hope in
Albania, I decided to provide a little more. I hosted a cocktail party
for my colleagues at a restaurant in downtown Chicago for the benefit of
The Home of Hope. As a result, three individuals donated materials and
several others provided monetary donations, raising $1000 for the
children at the home”.
The Papioanou Family in Longwood, Florida decided that their daughter,
Theofania, had plenty of toys and wanted to teach her about giving back
for all that God had given her. So on her next birthday, along with the
invitations, her mother asked the Mission Center to put a package of
pledge cards and a small note asking guests that in lieu of gifts that
a donation be made towards the Mission Center.
In Buffalo, New York, long time supporter Mary Danakis, took a Saturday
morning to coordinate a Missions Walk. Along with her parish, they
raised $2600 to support youth towards their OCMC mission trips.
Other creative ways to promote missions:
Host a dessert party, cocktail hour or dinner – Have people over or go
to your favorite restaurant and discuss some insight on missions and how
the ministries the Mission Center continues to spread the word of
Orthodoxy.
Promote the Mission Center – Order some Mission Center materials like
the OCMC magazine or brochures and give them to people that might be
interested in missions, share the Mission Center video, and request a
poster to put on a parish bulletin board.
Coordinate a project – Have a Missions walk, bake sale, garage sale or
an auction, and find creative ways for others to raise funds.
Become an Advocate – Start a missions committee at your parish, share
the Mission Center’s emails with friends or encourage friends to visit
OCMC’s website to learn more about the missionaries, mission teams and
mission priest that continue to put their faith in action.
These are only a few creative ways that come to mind when supporting the
Mission Center. We want to thank all of our supporters for creating
such amazing philanthropic projects while sharing their love towards the
ministries of OCMC. We ask for your continued prayers for all our
missionaries, mission team members and mission priests. Funds to help
support our ministries can be sent to the Orthodox Christian Mission
Center to P.O. Box 4319, St. Augustine, FL 32085-4319. To find out more
about the Mission Center’s missionaries, visit www.ocmc.org. or contact
us at missions@ocmc.org.
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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
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