June 5
Speaker: Fr. David Smith
Topic: Pentecost
On this week's CRTL podcast, Fr. David Smith will speak to Fr. Chris about Pentecost. While receiving his seminary degree, Fr. David discovered the Orthodox Church, and he and his family became Orthodox in 1988. Fr. David is attached to St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church in Syracuse, New York, and works full time as a nursing home administrator in Athens, Pennsylvania. He is also the producer of our popular podcast “Harmony of Thunder”.

June 12
Speaker: Dr. Steven Butler
Topic: Life and Walk of Dr. Butler
On this week's CRTL podcast Dr. Steven Butler, award-winning composer and professor of music at Westmont College, joins Fr. Chris to talk about his life and his walk to Orthodoxy. Dr. Butler sailed the world and encountered the majesty of God on the seas. Find out how this led him back to Orthodoxy by listening.

June 19
Speaker: Dr. Paul Meyendorff
Topic: Anointing the Sick
On this week's CRTL podcast, Dr. Paul Meyendorff of St. Vladimir’s Seminary in Crestwood, NY and author of the book “Anointing the Sick” joins Fr. Chris for a discussion about his new book. Paul states, “Health is not simply physical. Health is actually life in communion with God. Life in which we are at peace with God and our neighbor. Real life means communion with others, sharing in their joys and sorrows of life.”

June 26
Speaker: Elizabeth Theokritoff
Topic: Christian Ecology
On this week's CRTL podcast, Elizabeth Theokritoff will discuss Christian ecology. Climate change has become a very heated topic for discussion these days. This conversation deals with how the Church Fathers and the Orthodox Christian tradition understand man’s relationship with the rest of creation. Also learn what Sts. Maximus the Confessor and Gregory the Theologian have to offer for further understanding into this issue.

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The new Orthodox Christian Mission Center’s Archbishop Anastasios and Archbishop Demetrios Missionary Training and Administration Building was dedicated during the two-day festivities of May 20-21.

The new building was named in honor of Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres, and All Albania and Archbishop Demetrios of America, who lead the ceremonies. The Aghiasmos (Holy Blessing) service was held under a tent at the entrance of the new building and with intense rain trough out the festivities. Archbishop Demetrios presided over the service along with Archbishop Anastasios and Metropolitan Jonah, the leading hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

“This day is very significant for Orthodox Christians; this new missions building is a witness to Orthodoxy, because Orthodoxy is always offering herself to everyone; and this is a visible sign of this very character of Orthodoxy: to share, sharing what we have with all the people of the world,” said Archbishop Demetrios speaking about the new building and added: “This place is also important because it is a product of a pan-orthodox unity and cooperation, the faithful working together in the spirit of promoting the Gospel and the faith, which is a basic function of a true Christian. Our gratitude belongs to the people who made this a reality.”

Archbishop Anastasios said that “the dedication of this building is a milestone for all Orthodox missions and the evangelization of God’s People,” and added that “it is impossible to think of a dynamic Orthodoxy without world wide missionary work.”

About 300 people attended the blessing ceremony under a strong downpour. They were  hierarchs of SCOBA or their representatives, from all Orthodox jurisdictions in America, the board of directors and staff of OCMC, missionaries and Mission Team members, benefactors and donors to the successful capital campaign which provided funding for the project, and Orthodox clergy and laity from throughout the country. Earlier in the morning of May 21, Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta presided at the Archieratical Divine Liturgy in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of St. Augustine.

Archbishop Anastasios brought as a gift, a small silver reliquary containing relics of Saint Kosmas Aitolos, known for his missionary work in the 18th Century. Metropolitan Jonah of the OCA also brought a small container with relics of Saint Innocent of Alaska. Archbishop Demetrios presented to the OCMC board an icon of Saints Cyril and Methodios.

The new 12,000 square foot building, which is now the headquarters of OCMC, is located near Interstate 95 just north of St. Augustine, on a wooded twenty-acre site. It has two floors which include space for worship, training and meeting rooms, overnight accommodations for visiting missionaries and mission team members, a kitchen, and administrative offices and work areas. State of the art technology infrastructure is installed throughout, to support communications with OCMC’s Missionaries around the world.

The facility is the first permanent building designed, constructed, owned and operated by a SCOBA agency. The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) is the foreign mission and evangelism agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA). It has missions in many countries like Albania, Romania, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Argentina, Uganda, Indonesia and others. OCMC traces its origins back to the early 1960’s to the Lenten Self-Denial Club of the Annun For the rest of this News Release, visit the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America website