Theme Sessions - Speakers

Fr Justin Matthews - Executive Director and CEO of FOCUS North America

Fr Justin will be speaking about the amazing efforts of FOCUS to reach out as Orthodox Christians, as well as how this can be done by you or in your parish. In addition, he will be speaking to the Youth on “Getting Youth Equipped to Serve”

Fr David Rucker

Fr David will be coming all the way from East Africa to speak to us! He is the Associate Director of OCMC (Orthodox Christian Mission Centre), and will be speaking about his work and the larger efforts of OCMC to assist the preaching and praxis of the Gospel message to countries all over the world.

Fr Jon-Stephen Hedges

Fr Jon-Stephen helps run a vital outreach centre in Santa Barbara, CA, under the patronage of St Bridget. He will be telling us how it all got started, what they do, how it works in his parish, and where people truly need help, and how we can help them.

Archbishop LAZAR

International Orthodox speaker and author of many books, Archbishop Lazar will speaking on how the Orthodox Church has responded to chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel throughout history.


Kevin and AmandaEve Wigglesworth

Presentation of Kevin & AmandaEve Wigglesworth's OCMC mission trip to Zimbabwe in Aug. 2009 and discussion on other OCMC missions. (May include AmandaEve's Guatemala mission trip from July 2010.)





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