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Department of Youth, Young Adult and Campus Ministry challenge parishes through national icon ministry

Article posted: 1/11/2007 7:55 PM

Youth and faithful of Christ the Savior Parish, Chicago, Illinois, have already collected more than 100 icons of all types for the faithful in Mexico

SYOSSET, NY [OCA YOUTH] — While fellowship is essential to any youth group, there's one element that makes a Christain youth group unique: service and ministry to others!

The Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry wants to challenge all of our parish youth groups to mount a national ministry - collecting unused paper icon prints to help Bishop Alejo of Mexico City and his missionary priests in proclaiming the Gospel across their land.

Fr Antonio Perdomo of McAllen, TX, on the Mexican border will make sure your icons go to the right people! Just get the word out to everyone in your parish, asking them to bring their unused icons to church by March 15, 2007. Then pack them up and send them to Fr Antonio at 704 W. Sam Houston, PO Box 667, Pharr, TX 78577-0667.

And be sure to send photos of your youth group or parish undertaking this ministry so we can publish them in a future issue of The Orthodox Church magazine and on yya.oca.org and oca.org. Send photos to jmatusiak@oca.org