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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