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“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are mad

“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.” - St Gregory the Theologian
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Looking forward to meeting the CT/NY team tomorrow

Looking forward to meeting the CT/NY team tomorrow to make pies. Buy them in local parishes next Sunday!!

Enjoy the day with your family, but tomorrow you n

Enjoy the day with your family, but tomorrow you need to register for this mission team. Don’t wait, spaces are filling up quickly!

REGISTER NOW! Hello Orthodox Youth Mission Team Me

REGISTER NOW!
Hello Orthodox Youth Mission Team Members in NY/CT
Glory to Jesus Christ!
I hope you are all enjoying a peace-filled start to the Nativity Fast!
We are getting ready to reach out to our expansion teams and new parishes who have expressed interest in joining us on next year’s ASP trip. We have a limited number of spaces at our all Orthodox Center—84 to be exact—and some of them have been filled already. We want to make sure that everyone on our core team who wants to go gets a spot. So, if you haven’t already done so, please fill out the 3 forms below online as soon as possible:
Register Now!! Registration Form: https://pdf.ac/aR3Yzi
Youth Protection Policy: https://pdf.ac/1u4k8R

Covenant: https://pdf.ac/7qlCwK

You can mail your deposit to Holy Trinity (74 Joes Hill Rd., Danbury, CT 06811) or bring to the December 8th fundraising get together but please DO NOT WAIT to fill out your registration forms. We don’t want anyone missing out!
I will send a separate email with the training schedule for the upcoming year but our first get together is set for Dec. 8th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Danbury to prepare our holiday fundraiser.
Please forward to anyone in your parishes that you think will want to join the team this year.
In Christ,
Susan
Orthodox Youth Mission Team
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
74 Joes Hill Road
Danbury, CT 06811
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CT team: Liturgy and fellowship at St. Catherine’s on our last morning together

#Repost @geoffwhiteman ・・・ Today has been a

#Repost @geoffwhiteman
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Today has been a blessed day—I feel sustained by the prayers of others—if you’ve been praying for us, thank you! I just couldn’t do this week (or this life) in my own strength.
We started the day with a completely demoed bedroom floor and ended the day with a new free standing subfloor. “Handy” isn’t the first adjective anyone would use to describe me, so getting the chance to do some real work well with a group of new friends has been great in its own right. But getting to know a family I would not ever have meet has been pure joy.
Tomorrow I’m speaking/helping to facilitate the evening programming. I’d be grateful for your continued prayers for me, for our team from St Athanasius, the other participants, and of course the homeowners we are serving with the practical love of Jesus Christ.

#Repost @geoffwhiteman ・・・ It’s been a ble

#Repost @geoffwhiteman
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It’s been a blessed week. I loved getting to know the homeowners and their extended family! They’ve got an incredible story.
I also really enjoyed sharing about God’s mission with the 70+ participants from all over the country. And listening to what that provoked for several.
The week throw a lot of curve balls at each person on our team and we are each pretty beat and looking forward to getting some rest in our own beds.
The end of this trip also marks the end of seven strait weeks of travel for ministry and concludes a seven month season of International transition.
This next week I’m going to take a few days of personal retreat and family vacation and gain some needed clarity on what the rest of 2019 might hold.

Team CT: Free time at the lodge

Team CT: Free time at the lodge

Views from the lodge and dinner

Views from the lodge and dinner

Guess who won the lip synch contest!?!

Guess who won the lip synch contest!?!

Daily Reflection: This week, we pulled up to a tat

Daily Reflection: This week, we pulled up to a tattered mobile home with toys littered across the yard, and made assumptions about the family living within. Today, two days later, we still have our own perspectives and perceptions, but realize the impact this family has already made on our lives as we work to make their safer, warmer, and drier. We are framing and installing vinyl underpinning and have met numerous challenges throughout construction so far. As we work, our crew has grown to know each other better, have developed skills, confidence, and faith. As we work, it can be overwhelming to think of the needs of our family, and see the impact of what is essentially the covering of the underside of a mobile home. Tonight, however, we addressed both the issue of perceptions/assumptions and serving when we only have "not enough" to offer. When progress is slow and we are running a relay race of other volunteers working week to week, our impact can feel insignificant, and our assumptions about the family we serve can make our efforts feel futile. But we have faith that people are trying their best. We have faith that what we feel is "not enough" will be multiplied by those who follow us. We have faith that the challenges that we face as we work are deliberate tests to help us grower stronger and grow closer together. I hope that everyone has the opportunity to see from this perspective we have shared the past few days, which some of us have experience for years. As an educator and a hopeful prospective principal, I look forward to sharing this experience with my colleagues so we can better serve students in poverty by developing empathy through experience and placing faith in the students we teach who live in homes like the one we are sharing this week. I am so grateful to participate in this work and to know those I have met as a result. #aspknox

Tuesday evening prayers

Tuesday evening prayers

Daily Reflection: Grace Kovakas - Team AL Today wa

Daily Reflection: Grace Kovakas - Team AL Today was the first day at the work site. Monday also has a lot of other names such as Musical Monday, Minty Fresh Monday, Mosey Monday, Mingle Monday, and my personal favorite Sundae Monday. This morning I was up before the music alarm, however this will be the only morning that happens. I was excited and ready to go this morning at breakfast. When the preparations for the day began, such as making lunches and getting tools, I realized how much I missed this place. Part of me also felt like I had never left. We arrived at the site with good weather and a wonderful homeowner. We went inside and talked with her and one of the children everyone calls “Bean” for about a hour. We then went outside to start the work. This week our main goal is to remove the porch replace a band joist and start rebuilding the porch. Today we got all the railing, supports, lattice, ramp, and decking removed. Just as we were finishing removing the ramp, it started to pouring. We decided that it was good stopping point and to head back. I got a shower first, so I was super happy! We went to dinner and hung out, which was nice to get to know more people on the trip. Then we had sundaes, which is where “Sundae Monday” comes in. I am about to head over to evening prayers, but I am looking forward to tomorrow and seeing our family again! #aspknox

The gangs all here!!! We’re so excited to meet e

The gangs all here!!! We’re so excited to meet each other and do some great work!

Team CA is on the way! @aspknoxky

Team CA is on the way!
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Team AL on the way!! @aspknoxky

Team AL on the way!!
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