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WA State Youth and Young Adult Conference – Sat 8 Feb

Saturday 8th of February

(Conference M.C. Rev. Fr Terry Gerovasilis)

7.30 am – 9.30 am Matins Service and Divine Liturgy in English
Holy Monastery of St John
(Main Monastery Church of St John)
9.30 am – 10.00 am Morning Tea and Registrations
(Monastery Grounds)
10.00 am – 11.00 am Official Opening of Conference (Agiasmo)
Key Note Address by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios.Youth Conference Topic:
“I have a dream for this Church; that the people who are outside, to be inside and that the people who are inside to open their hearts to those outside.”
(His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Perth 2019)
(Main Conference Area)
11.00 am – 11.20 am Speaker 1 – Fr Emmanuel Stamatiou

  • How a local Orthodox parish can welcome those outside the Church

(Main Conference Area)

11.20 am – 11.40 am Speaker 2 – Anthony and Natalia Zafer

  • Discovering Orthodoxy from a Hindu background

(Main Conference Area)

11.40 am – 12.00 pm Speaker 3 – Fr Terry Gerovasilis

  • Information for those wishing to study at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College

(Main Conference Area)

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch
(Monastery Grounds)
1.00 pm – 1.40 pm English Supplicatory Canon to the Theotokos
(Main Monastery Church of St John)
1.40 pm – 2.00 pm Speaker 4 – Ignatius and Elizabeth Davis

  • Discovering Orthodoxy from a gnostic Christian background

(Main Conference Area)

2.00 pm – 2.20 pm Speaker 5 – His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon

  • Establishing English speaking Orthodox parishes

(Main Conference Area)

2.20 pm – 3.00 pm Panel Discussion (Q&A)
(Main Conference Area)
3.00 pm – 4.15 pm Group Brainstorm

  • Topic: How do the Orthodox open up their hearts to the non-Orthodox?

(Monastery Grounds)

4.15 pm – 5.00 pm Presentation of Group Brainstorm
(Main Conference Area)
5.00 pm – 5.30 pm Closing remarks of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios and Conclusion of Conference (presentation of gifts and group photo)
(Main Conference Area)
5.30 pm – 6.30 pm Coffee/Tea
(Monastery Grounds)
6.30 pm – 8.00 pm Great Vespers Service Presided by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios and the Enthronement of the new Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St John of the Mountain, Very Rev. Archimandrite Thalassios
(Main Monastery Church of St John)
8.00 pm Official Enthronement Dinner
(Main Conference Area)
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