Are you currently a junior in high school? Are you making decisions about college and occupation? Are you unsure about what your future holds? Maybe you have your future carefully mapped out but are still concerned with how faith relates to life? Do you want to strengthen and further understand your commitment to Christ and His path? The way of Christ is the way of the Cross, and that’s why CrossRoad is here.

The Office of Vocation and Ministry at Hellenic College/Holy Cross is pleased to announce the launching of CrossRoad, an engaging and exciting summer vocations exploration program for high school rising seniors of all Orthodox Christian jurisdictions. The program will take place this summer from June 27 to July 7, 2004 on the beautiful campus of Hellenic College/Holy Cross in Brookline, Massachusetts. This specially-tailored program has been funded through a grant from the Lilly Endowment, and because of this it is free of charge for you – all you have to do is get yourself to Boston this summer!

The goal of the CrossRoad team is to help you, as high school juniors, discern your life callings, matching your personal gifts with the needs of the world. The team consists of both current students and recent graduates who know the pressures and confusions of being a young person trying to understand his or her calling in today’s society. However, the core belief of CrossRoad is that in just about any direction you choose for your life, it can be of service of God and of neighbor, which is Christ’s call to us all.

Once you take the challenge and come to CrossRoad this summer, you will be staying with a group of your peers in the dormitory of the school. You will be able to experience the fullness of liturgical life by participating in services every day – Orthros/Matins in the morning and Vespers at night. You will have the opportunity to attend mini-classes taught by professors at Hellenic College/Holy Cross, and then participate in in-depth small-group discussions. As a group of Orthodox teens, you and the other participants will work in service projects in the Boston area. Besides all this, of course, you will be taken out into the great city of Boston to have fun with your new friends.