2021 Year of the Youth: Meet Your Bishop
Desanka Elwell
2021 Year of the Youth
The Year of the Youth celebrates youth’s presence and potential within the Church by celebrating and enhancing their God-given talents. The presence of Youth, as full members of the Body of Christ, is essential to the life of our communities. The Youth are our present and future. Our hope stems from a faith that is not only lived on a daily basis but is passed on from generation to generation, ensuring continuity in witnessing Christ’s love in the world. “He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children; that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God but keep His commandments…” (Psalm 78:5-7).
Activities:
Town halls: Who do you say that I am? Explaining our Orthodox Christian Faith
Six Town halls will be hosted virtually throughout the year, each in a different geographic region of the United States, connecting our youth and hierarchs. Town halls will provide youth with opportunities: 1) to better know their hierarchs, and 2) to dialogue with their hierarchs about their spiritual lives. Below is a list of regions, dates, and times. Please register for the regional town hall for the region with which you identify. Each session is limited to 60 participants, and registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Registrants must be "children or teens" (18 years old or under). More information to come.
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Geographic Area |
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Registration |
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Northeast |
April 13, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm EDT |
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Southeast |
May 11, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm EDT |
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Central East |
September 14, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm CDT |
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Central West |
October 12, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm CDT |
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Northwest |
November 9, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm PST |
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Southwest |
December 14, 2021 |
7:00-8:00pm PST |