Pastors & Mission Committee Members
Overseas Ministries Study Center
MISSIONS BREAKFAST AND LECTURE
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 8:00 a.m
Testimonies by OMSC residents from around the world
Held at Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
1045 Old Academy Rd., Fairfield, CTÂ 06824
(203) 259-5596 Directions: www.greenfieldhillchurch.com
Co-hosted by OMSC Board of Trustees members and
co-sponsored by their churches:
Rev. Dr. David Johnson Rowe,
co-pastor, Greenfield Hill Congregational Church,
drowe@greenfieldhillchurch.com
Rev. Larry Fullerton, executive pastor/missions pastor,
Black Rock Congregational Church,
lfullerton@brcc.org
Fr. Luke A. Veronis, priest of Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, Webster, Massachusetts, (http://schwebster.org), invites pastors and church mission committee members to “share inspiring stories and pictures from an apostolic story” when he discusses “the amazing resurrection of a Church in the only country in the world that outlawed any and every expression of religion for twenty-four years.” He describes Albania as “an ancient land where the Apostle Paul preached and in which the Christian Church flourished for 1,900 years (before being) destroyed and closed” under the atheistic Communist rule of Enver Hoxha. Twenty years later, the church experienced what Veronis calls “an amazing resurrection.”
In addition to parish responsibilities, Veronis is director of the Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts; and an Overseas Ministries Study Center Board of Trustees member. He became interested in Orthodox missions as a Holy Cross student and soon thereafter was a missionary in Africa. In 1994 he relocated to Albania. Veronis is author of Go Forth! Stories of Missions and Resurrection in Albania (2010).
Space is limited: To reserve your complimentary breakfast, please RSVP by March 6, 2012, by e-mail to Pamela Sola, sola@OMSC.org, by mail to 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, or by fax to (203) 865-2857.
When registering, list the name of each person attending from your church.
Click here to download this invitation (PDF)
