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Brisbane Paniyiri 2013
Hi to all the Rev Themi & Friends and supporters everywhere, Today the PK4A Brisbane Team (Australia) finished up at the Brisbane’s Greek Community Paniyiri Greek Festival. Each year it is estimated more than over 50,000 people pass through the festival and this was our first year with a stall at the Paniyiri. It’s hard [...]
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here’s something that’s weird but true
Eleni McDermott “here’s something that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. The compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type [...]
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Truly it is a blessing to be here
Dear Rev Themi and friends Christ is Risen! This was the first year in my life as an Orthodox Christian where I was able to fully participate in Holy week and really experience the Passion of the Lord, from his be trayal, his agony and suffering followed by his life-giving Resurrection. Each day there was something new to [...]
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Christ is Risen
Hi Everyone Christ be with you. We have now entered the Church’s most sacred period, that of Holy Week on our spiritual journey towards the triumphal victory over death – the final enemy – of the Risen Christ. This morning we celebrated Palm Sunday in Freetown with our cathedral all decked out with palm branches [...]
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Sympathy and Reality by Mary Adams
Since my arrival in Sierra Leone I have heard many desperate stories of survival from young and old and have seen many tragedies in the streets and everywhere else. After a while you realise that your whole sense for being here is to solve a myriad of challenges even for a moment. You may be [...]
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establishment of the Orthodox Youth Fellowship(OYF), this is timely intervention of
Dear Brother Louee, to be candid, the initiative you brought for the establishment of the Orthodox Youth Fellowship(OYF), this is timely intervention of God through your idea for a society like ours. This idea is more functional compare to that of the old one and in this regard, it has a mixture of both social and spiritual benefit [...]
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…. but how emotionally unprepared I was!
Dear Rev Themi & Friends I have been here almost 2 months now and trying to keep up with my commitment of one blog per month. As I reflect on my time here, I realize how intellectually prepared I was for this work but how emotionally unprepared I was! It is a daily roller coaster [...]
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PK4A – A chance encounter? -I don’t think so!
PK4A – A chance encounter? I’m an Australian girl with Greek heritage, who, much to my grandmother’s dismay, has moved my life to the small West African country with a colourful history – Sierra Leone. “Come back soon”, my grandmother has begged repeatedly. “If you come home, I will pay for a flight to Greece [...]
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The Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone is making such a difference to people’s lives
The Life and Death Cycle in West Africa Since my arrival nearly two months ago, before we were blessed to be connected to the Government House line, the electricity supply to the Mission House and the College had been erratic. This situation brings about many challenges, impossible to charge phones and computers, no lights, no Power-point presentations, [...]
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“Orthodox Youth Fellowship, Freetown.”
Hello Rev Themi & friends & supporters. I wanted to wait a month or so before I put up my first blog. Mainly because I didn’t want to make the same false assumptions and western expectations that I did when I was here 2.5 years ago. It is easy to be shocked, to be overwhelmed, to feel [...]
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