October Youth Ministry Resources
As we step into this fall season, OYM wants to highlight a few October resources for you or someone you may know working in youth...
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Sep 192 min
Orthodox Youth & Young Adult Sunday 2024
A Letter from President Chris Krampe Dear OYM Friends, With September 22nd, 2024 designated by the Assembly of Bishops as Orthodox Youth...
Sep 165 min
Notice, Name, Know
September 2024 Ministry Reflection We need to face a stark reality. Young people are suffering. It’s an oft-cited and sad statistic that...
Sep 133 min
A Sense of Belonging
Some words from His Grace, Bishop THOMAS, and Fr. Christopher Shadid on the Translation of St. Raphael’s Relics and the Youth Photo...
Sep 132 min
The Translation of the Relics of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn
Rejoice O Father Raphael, adornment of the Holy Church! Photo courtesy of Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. On...
Aug 213 min
Practicing Hospitality
August 2024 Ministry Reflection The first time I entered the parish that would eventually become my own, I was shocked at how small, even...
Aug 153 min
Letter From The President
This August is personally significant; twenty years ago, my wife and I began an unlikely journey into something called Eastern Orthodoxy....
Aug 151 min
Orthodox Youth and Young Adult Ministries Announces New Monthly Newsletter
August 15, 2024 — Orthodox Youth and Young Adult Ministries (OYM), an agency of the Assembly of Bishops, will begin distributing a...
May 163 min
Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting Joins Orthodox Youth & Young Adult Ministries
The EOCS will continue to promote scouting in the Orthodox church as a ministry of OYM. As of March 15, 2024, The Eastern Orthodox...
Mar 2110 min
The End of Orthodoxy (Thank God!)
It is too easy for the timeless goodness of Orthodoxy to be frozen in the past, but it can be freed through a robust vision for ministry...
Dec 22, 202311 min
Starving to Death in the Cereal Aisle
The other day, I was searching for a very particular brand of cereal, and as I walked down the aisle, I couldn’t help but be struck by...
Nov 6, 20233 min
Beauty Will Save the World.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Dear Friends of OYM, I don’t know about you, but my heart is reeling. Our world is a mess. Injustice. Mass violence....
Sep 26, 20237 min
People Before Programs. Always.
“She looks just like her mom!” Nothing has so ubiquitously been spoken of my youngest daughter. And it’s true. She does have a striking...
Jun 22, 20238 min
3 Simple Ways to Love Young People
“NO, AMELIA! DON’T DO THAT!” This again? I think to myself. If I had a dollar for every time I heard my daughter yell at her sister, I’d...
May 25, 20232 min
Stay in the Lake! (The 40 Martyrs of Sebaste)
About the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste The Forty Martyrs were Christians who suffered persecution under Emperor Licinius. In the year 320 AD,...
Apr 8, 20233 min
OYM Holds First 3ETreat!
Over the weekend of March 31, 2023, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Houston, Texas hosted the first OYM 3ETreat. 3ETreats are a...
Mar 21, 20237 min
The Only Thing That Matters is Jesus
When I was a kid, there was one question that almost every adult wanted me to answer. It seemed to be a universal preoccupation for...
Jan 15, 20238 min
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY AGENCY PUBLISHES ROSTER OF DIRECTORS
WASHINGTON, DC – At its inaugural meeting on December 3, the Board of Directors of the newly blessed Youth & Young Adult Ministry Agency...
Aug 15, 20212 min
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY AGENCY PUBLISHES “WHY” & MISSION STATEMENTS
CHICAGO – At its inaugural meeting on December 3, the Board of Directors of the newly established Youth & Young Adult Ministry Agency...
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