Luisi Family Visits the Mission Center as they prepare to serve in Albania

Friday, May 19, 2006

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Luisi Family Visits the Mission Center as they prepare to serve in Albania
May 16, 2006
 
 
Orthodox Christian Mission Center, St. Augustine, FL – The Mission Center was blessed to welcome Constance, Dennis and Domenico Luisi to St. Augustine during the week of May 9th – May 12th as they made final preparations to serve as OCMC missionaries in Albania.
 
Dennis and Constance are both converts to Orthodoxy. Constance became Orthodox in 1988 with her family, Fr. Patrick and Kh. Denise Reardon and her brother, Jeremy. Dennis converted with his whole parish in 1992. They married in February 1999 and were blessed by the birth of their son, Domenico, in June 2000.
 
For twelve years, Dennis has been the choir director at All Saints Orthodox Church in Chicago where he also taught Sunday School and assisted with facilities management. He has experience in multiple trades including carpentry, plumbing, HVAC and electrical maintenance. Constance has also been a choir director, as well as Sunday School Director and teacher. She earned her BA in French and German language and literature and enjoys being a chanter, composing and arranging music.
 
During their brief visit to the Mission Center, the staff was able to enjoy the presentation that the Luisi’s have been giving to parishes around the country.  As a wonderfully cogged wheel, Dennis and Constance worked as a team as they presented historical information on Albania beginning with the first centuries, through the establishment of the nation, through the coming of Communism and the persecution of religion and finally to the modern revival of the Orthodox Church,
 
Once their fundraising is complete the Luisi family will depart as OCMC missionaries to Albania. Their primary task will be to work with children’s choirs, first in Tirana and then throughout the country. The Luisis will also explore other ways their varied gifts and talents can be put to use for the glory of God in rebuilding the Church in Albania.
 
In their last few months before they depart for Albania, they will be visiting various parishes to speak about missions and raise the support for their ministry.
 
We ask for your continued prayers for the Constance, Dennis and Domenico.  Funds to help support the Luisi Family can be sent to the Orthodox Christian Mission Center, designated for the “Luisi Family” in the memo line, 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 missionaries@ocmc.org.
 
 
 
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