Knights of columbus supported in columbia council 3302 in st. helensAnderson013
Roseburg Council 2939 collaborated with the youth group at St. Joseph High School to be able to coordinate a Father's Day breakfast just for charity, according to the representative of Knights of Columbus. The event raised more than $1,000 to send members of the youth group to a summer conference in Spokane, Wash.
Mary MacKillop Foundation Newsletter Issue 2 - 2014Natalie Sykes
Inside this issue:
◗ Message from Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ p2
◗ Kid's Camps engaging the youth p2
◗ Our scholarship recipients graduate p3
◗ Events calendar p4
◗ Looking at scholarships for Indigenous Aussies p4
To find out more about the Mary MacKillop Foundation visit our website www.mackillopfoundation.org.au
PCU - New Partnership at Christmas - 2017 (PCU Shares - Newsletter - Autumn ...Pentecostal Credit Union
New partnership at Christmas
We’re delighted to announce that we are now officially partnered with the New Testament Assembly in Tooting (NTA) in their long-established programme to deliver food hampers to people in Wandsworth at Christmas.
The Christmas Hamper Project was launched back in December 2008, by the late Amy Rose Powell MBE from the Women 2 Women ministry. She was concerned about members of the NTA Tooting Church, and people in the wider community, who were experiencing difficult times.
Responding to hardship
The project provides a box of food as a gift at Christmas to individuals or families in need – whatever their religious persuasion or ethnicity. Most of the boxes go to single parents, pensioners and households on a low income. The hampers – 2,914 of them in the past eight years – are delivered individually or via community groups.
The scriptural reference for the project is taken from Matthew 25:35-46:
“…for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me…
“Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”
PCU sees this project as an important element of our corporate social responsibility programme. Corporate social responsibility is about contributing to the improvement of the community we are part of in some substantial way – and doing so in line with our ethics and values.
We view the local Christmas hamper programme as an essential local social service to individuals and families in desperate need at Christmas and we are privileged to take part in this.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
AA 4AASkwarczekEngl. 2310.20 4 December 2017The River Be.docxransayo
AA 4
AA
Skwarczek
Engl. 2310.20
4 December 2017
The River Between
Introduction
The novel ‘The River Between’ is a chronological record of author Ngugi's literary encounter of the Kikuyu's culture and history. The novel gives a historical account of the Gikuyu tribe in the Mount Kenya region of central Kenya between the early ‘20s and ‘30s. Throughout the novel, Ngugi undergoes several significant changes in style and thematic. The author gives a skeletal overview of the native life amongst the ancient Kenyan tribe of the antagonism between modernity and culture. Through Waiyaki the lead protagonist in the novel, the author reveals the idealism and materialism that defined the 19th-century African societies (Thiong’o, 20).
Thesis statement
This paper is a study of the importance of cultural tradition and ritual to the cohesion of a community. It also ponders upon Ngugi’s views about how a community can withstand changes to its traditions caused by external forces.
Supporting evidence and analysis
The turmoil of former British colonies, an example being Kenya, consistently struggle with the themes Ngugi highlighted were evidently present deep into the 21st century. Ngugi highlights the plight of these communities together with the early missionaries input and their impact on societies, including the uproar of female circumcision. “The River Between distills this atmosphere of urgency, self-questioning, and change context set around the time of the push by the British colonial religious infrastructure to eradicate female circumcision” (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 12). Ngugi through Waiyaki embodies the idea of identity in adherence to the African culture.
In the novel, Waiyaki at a very young age tackles the messianic role of mending the two ridges of both Makuyu and Kameno that separated because of the religious affiliations. “The two ridges lay side by side. One was Kameno, the other was Makuyu. Between them was a valley. It was called the valley of life” (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 17). One was true to the tribal identities while the other embraced Christianity. The ramifications of the white man and his religious interference to the native life in the ridges acted to increase the wedge between the two ridges separated by river Honia (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 17). According to Thiong’o, Waiyaki is the new face of change. Waiyaki does not believe in the influence of the white man's religion but believes in the white man's education. The story narrates Waiyaki's failed attempts to combine old traditions with the new educational endeavors.
The novel describes how the arrival of the Whiteman and the subsequent colonization, threatened the very existence of the cultural experience. The colonialists epitomized by the Reverend Livingstone in the novel, judge the people based on their own cultural experiences. Female circumcision in the eyes of the colonialists was evil and backward but according to the Gikuyu, it was what held society together. They equated .
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Critique of Christianity in Petals of Bloodinventionjournals
Ngugi wa thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is an interesting study of Kenyan post-colonial context from a socialist perspective. He not only dissects the opportunistic neo-colonial ruling clique, but also exposes the complicity of Church and Empire in the enterprise of Colonialism. Though the novel is seeped with Biblical allusions and a spiritual journey motif, Ngugi questions the white man’s religion and proclaims the necessity for redefining Christianity from a Blackman’s perspective. He rejects both religion and politics as liberating forces, as both are in collusion with capitalism. He rather roots for revolutionary politics as the means of ushering in meaningful change in the socio-politico-economic and cultural conditions of the masses of the Kenyan people, who comprises of peasants, workers and labourers.
2014 conference photo contest entries, on blackallisonwickler
Browse the 26 fantastic entries to the 2013 NCFR Conference Photo Contest, taken by NCFR members of people and places across the world.
Three winners have been chosen from the entries — one first place, two runners up — and will be announced at the World Family Festival held Friday, Nov. 21 at the conference. All photos will also be on display at the conference.
Knights of columbus supported in columbia council 3302 in st. helensAnderson013
Roseburg Council 2939 collaborated with the youth group at St. Joseph High School to be able to coordinate a Father's Day breakfast just for charity, according to the representative of Knights of Columbus. The event raised more than $1,000 to send members of the youth group to a summer conference in Spokane, Wash.
Mary MacKillop Foundation Newsletter Issue 2 - 2014Natalie Sykes
Inside this issue:
◗ Message from Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ p2
◗ Kid's Camps engaging the youth p2
◗ Our scholarship recipients graduate p3
◗ Events calendar p4
◗ Looking at scholarships for Indigenous Aussies p4
To find out more about the Mary MacKillop Foundation visit our website www.mackillopfoundation.org.au
PCU - New Partnership at Christmas - 2017 (PCU Shares - Newsletter - Autumn ...Pentecostal Credit Union
New partnership at Christmas
We’re delighted to announce that we are now officially partnered with the New Testament Assembly in Tooting (NTA) in their long-established programme to deliver food hampers to people in Wandsworth at Christmas.
The Christmas Hamper Project was launched back in December 2008, by the late Amy Rose Powell MBE from the Women 2 Women ministry. She was concerned about members of the NTA Tooting Church, and people in the wider community, who were experiencing difficult times.
Responding to hardship
The project provides a box of food as a gift at Christmas to individuals or families in need – whatever their religious persuasion or ethnicity. Most of the boxes go to single parents, pensioners and households on a low income. The hampers – 2,914 of them in the past eight years – are delivered individually or via community groups.
The scriptural reference for the project is taken from Matthew 25:35-46:
“…for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me…
“Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”
PCU sees this project as an important element of our corporate social responsibility programme. Corporate social responsibility is about contributing to the improvement of the community we are part of in some substantial way – and doing so in line with our ethics and values.
We view the local Christmas hamper programme as an essential local social service to individuals and families in desperate need at Christmas and we are privileged to take part in this.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
AA 4AASkwarczekEngl. 2310.20 4 December 2017The River Be.docxransayo
AA 4
AA
Skwarczek
Engl. 2310.20
4 December 2017
The River Between
Introduction
The novel ‘The River Between’ is a chronological record of author Ngugi's literary encounter of the Kikuyu's culture and history. The novel gives a historical account of the Gikuyu tribe in the Mount Kenya region of central Kenya between the early ‘20s and ‘30s. Throughout the novel, Ngugi undergoes several significant changes in style and thematic. The author gives a skeletal overview of the native life amongst the ancient Kenyan tribe of the antagonism between modernity and culture. Through Waiyaki the lead protagonist in the novel, the author reveals the idealism and materialism that defined the 19th-century African societies (Thiong’o, 20).
Thesis statement
This paper is a study of the importance of cultural tradition and ritual to the cohesion of a community. It also ponders upon Ngugi’s views about how a community can withstand changes to its traditions caused by external forces.
Supporting evidence and analysis
The turmoil of former British colonies, an example being Kenya, consistently struggle with the themes Ngugi highlighted were evidently present deep into the 21st century. Ngugi highlights the plight of these communities together with the early missionaries input and their impact on societies, including the uproar of female circumcision. “The River Between distills this atmosphere of urgency, self-questioning, and change context set around the time of the push by the British colonial religious infrastructure to eradicate female circumcision” (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 12). Ngugi through Waiyaki embodies the idea of identity in adherence to the African culture.
In the novel, Waiyaki at a very young age tackles the messianic role of mending the two ridges of both Makuyu and Kameno that separated because of the religious affiliations. “The two ridges lay side by side. One was Kameno, the other was Makuyu. Between them was a valley. It was called the valley of life” (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 17). One was true to the tribal identities while the other embraced Christianity. The ramifications of the white man and his religious interference to the native life in the ridges acted to increase the wedge between the two ridges separated by river Honia (Thiong’o & Uzodinma, 17). According to Thiong’o, Waiyaki is the new face of change. Waiyaki does not believe in the influence of the white man's religion but believes in the white man's education. The story narrates Waiyaki's failed attempts to combine old traditions with the new educational endeavors.
The novel describes how the arrival of the Whiteman and the subsequent colonization, threatened the very existence of the cultural experience. The colonialists epitomized by the Reverend Livingstone in the novel, judge the people based on their own cultural experiences. Female circumcision in the eyes of the colonialists was evil and backward but according to the Gikuyu, it was what held society together. They equated .
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Critique of Christianity in Petals of Bloodinventionjournals
Ngugi wa thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is an interesting study of Kenyan post-colonial context from a socialist perspective. He not only dissects the opportunistic neo-colonial ruling clique, but also exposes the complicity of Church and Empire in the enterprise of Colonialism. Though the novel is seeped with Biblical allusions and a spiritual journey motif, Ngugi questions the white man’s religion and proclaims the necessity for redefining Christianity from a Blackman’s perspective. He rejects both religion and politics as liberating forces, as both are in collusion with capitalism. He rather roots for revolutionary politics as the means of ushering in meaningful change in the socio-politico-economic and cultural conditions of the masses of the Kenyan people, who comprises of peasants, workers and labourers.
2014 conference photo contest entries, on blackallisonwickler
Browse the 26 fantastic entries to the 2013 NCFR Conference Photo Contest, taken by NCFR members of people and places across the world.
Three winners have been chosen from the entries — one first place, two runners up — and will be announced at the World Family Festival held Friday, Nov. 21 at the conference. All photos will also be on display at the conference.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Codex Singularity: Search for the Prisca Sapientiajfrenchau
If there was some lost civilisation in the very remote past then two questions need to be answered:
1. Has the knowledge from that lost culture disappeared for good?
2. Has that knowledge survived over the many millennia?
If it's the second option then two further questions need to be asked:
1. Can that knowledge be identified?
2. Can that knowledge be pieced back together into something discernible?
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
A373 true knowledge Not according to true knowledge, knowledge/true knowledg...franktsao4
When I read about true knowledge, I had a lot of doubts in my mind. What is true knowledge? Could it be that the knowledge I think is not true knowledge? What is the difference between true knowledge and the knowledge that ordinary people think? We will conduct in-depth research on the following topics. What is love god? What is knowing God? Am I loving God? From the analysis inside, we can clearly see that if it is not true knowledge, then we can clearly see that what is required is almost impossible for humans to achieve. However, if God's method is followed, which is true knowledge, then We can see that this is not such a difficult thing. Only by starting with God’s method can we achieve such a state. A373.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Story of 'Chin Kiam Siap' ~ An AI Generated Story ~ English & Chinese.pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on an AI Generated moral story with some editing.
Life Lessons based on the story are penned for the presentation.
The texts are in English and Chinese.
The audio narration with explanation is in Hokkien.
For the Video with audio narration and explanation in Hokkien (Texts are in English and Chinese), please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8qD7skfi8
The Prophecy of Enoch in Jude 14-16_.pptxStephen Palm
In Jude 14-16 Jude cites one of the most cryptic characters in the Book of Genesis, Enoch, the man who never died! Jude quotes Enoch, but the words are not found in Genesis nor anywhere else in the Bible. Jude is actually quoting from a pseudepigraphical book named 1 Enoch. In this sermon we will take a close look at Enoch, consider the way that biblical authors at times cited non-biblical books as illustrations and how Jude applied these words to the false teachers of our day.
1. SVS seminarian carries scholarship aid to “Pearl of Africa’s Crown” British statesman Winston Churchill once referred to Uganda as “the Pearl of Africa’s Crown,” with its equatorial snow-capped mountains, breathtaking waterfalls originating from the headwaters of the Nile at Lake Victoria, and over 3,400 species of birds and magnificent mountain gorillas. Today, Uganda secures Churchill’s epithet by offering tourists white water rafting through turbulent rivers and exotic treks around shimmering lakes, creating an almost mythic lost kingdom for visitors. But 3rd-year St. Vladimir’s seminarian Troy Hamilton saw another, more circumspect view of the country when he visited the northern region around the small town of Gulu over his winter semester break, January 1–12, 2009. Snubbing the superlative camping spots and spectacular national parks, he saw people. People recovering from a civil war that had decimated villages and forced their resettlement in United Nations refugee camps where they lingered for decades. People without ambition. People reluctant to rebuild their hometowns after their kinfolk and children had been beaten, raped, maimed, forced to march to exhaustion, or sold into virtual slavery as concubines and soldiers by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Northern Uganda, the region Troy visited, had been destabilized in the 1990s when the LRA, led by Joseph Kony, had flowed over the Sudanese border. LRA soldiers hooked up with the Army for Liberation of Rwanda (ALIP) and other rebel groups battling with forces from the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD). Victims of their civil warfare included the Acholi tribe, then residents of the Gulu and Kitgum districts, the region in which Troy decided to spend his hiatus between seminary semesters. More than 6,000 children in that region had been abducted during the civil war, and most human rights NGOs estimate that 3,000 are still held captive by the LRA. More than one-half-million people in Uganda's Gulu and Kitgum districts have been displaced by the fighting and are living in temporary camps. These are the people that Troy saw. More precisely, these are the Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters that he saw, for many residents in the Gulu region have embraced Orthodoxy during the past 50 years. But, he saw something else…opportunity—specifically, opportunity for education and enterprise. “The Ugandans have almost a ‘mythic’ faith in education,” he noted, “and I wanted to help provide them with the means to obtain that.” So, prior to leaving on his African journey, Troy solicited the seminary community, along with the people at his parish assignment, Holy Trinity Church in East Meadow, Long Island, for books, clothing, and cash. As he crossed the Atlantic to another continent, he pondered how he would distribute the generous US Dollars to the two Orthodox Christian communities that would welcome him, or rather welcome him back, for this January 2009 trip would be Troy’s second journey to Africa within a year’s span. In June 2008, under the auspices of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), Troy had participated in a short-term mission team that took him to Kampala and the Gula region of Uganda, located just about 60 miles south of Sudan. He assumed that he would spend much of his trip teaching, but instead found himself working for hours on end with the medical personnel on the team, distributing medication to villagers—especially cocktails to treat HIV/AIDS. Having served in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, as a chaplain’s assistant and paratrooper (1996–2000), Troy also began to relate to the Ugandan people’s experience of war and terror. “I had three ‘theological’ talks prepared for that missionary journey,” he said, “ ‘The Lord’s Prayer,’ ‘The Jesus Prayer,’ and ‘The Church’s Response to War’. We connected on that last talk. “I presented the idea that a nation should support its soldiers and that there were causes worth fighting and dying for—like when rebels are raping and kidnapping your children. But, I also spoke about prayer for and forgiveness of one’s enemies,” he said, “and that’s what caught their attention.” Troy said that an estimated 90% of the children in the region of Gulu had incurred Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, having survived the nightmare of being kidnapped, raped, or enslaved, or having watched their parents and relatives disappear. “It was tough to watch them,” he recalled, “and forgiveness was a topic that absorbed them.” In reflecting on what effect that first trip had on him, Troy said, “everything was an eye-opener,” and he expressed his interest in returning again to Uganda soon, better prepared to help the villagers. So this fall, he determined to go back to the Gulu region. On his second trip, he visited two churches under the leadership of Fr. George Lakony, one in the Akonyibedo village, about a 20-minute motorcycle ride north of Gulu; and St. Basil’s Church, much closer to the town proper. “Both churches measurably contrast in some structural ways, but both communities are very generous and kind,” noted Troy. “St. Basil’s parish had walls, and the children—toddlers—were disciplined to ‘stick around’ for their baptismal ceremonies. But the village church is an open-air structure, and the kids would wander off during the service to play under a tree or just to walk around, as small children are apt to do.” “I returned to Uganda on my winter break,” Troy said simply, “this time by myself, without the umbrella of OCMC, because I had told the people there that I would. My goal was to be an observer of their needs, not to interfere with or to interrupt their lives, and certainly not to export ‘Western Orthodoxy’ to them. Basically, I just wanted to see how they were doing.” Upon hearing their needs, Troy began discreetly distributing what he called “small scale money and small scale advice,” concentrating on entrepreneurial projects and scholarships that would allow his new friends to complete high school or college courses. From an Internet café, in an e-mail to his cadre of U.S. donors, Troy wrote: 8Jan09 Hello from Uganda, We have distributed all of the clothing and books that the community gave so generously. We have also purchased 18 goats for the village parish and invested in a brick-making endeavor that is being run by the Youth of the Akonyibedo Parish. Four scholarships have also been granted for continued studies. Theophany was very nice and there were about forty baptisms between the two communities that Fr George serves. It is about 90 degrees every day and sunny. Hope everyone is enjoying break, see you next Tuesday or so depending on travel. In Christ, Troy Sitting in that Kampalan coffee shop, and avidly reading the economic section of the local Daily Monitor, Troy began to expand his vision. He hit upon the notion of micro financing: employing community trusts that would partner with local banks to distribute loans to willing entrepreneurs. “Basically, a teenager would come to the local village Youth Council and present his or her business plan,” he said. “If the plan were feasible, the council would then approve a loan taken from the seed money kept at a local bank. “People in an around Gulu need seed money for on-going enterprise,” he continued. “During my stay, high school and college students had already used the seed ‘scholarship’ money I had given them to buy pigs, goats, boiler chickens, and seeds to plant in the coming rainy season. By breeding the animals, and producing cash crops, they will be able to fund their own education through high school and college…and, maybe, just maybe, even come to St. Vladimir’s Seminary some day.” Troy is determined to raise further seed money that will fund what he says amounts to “a big 4-H project” in the Gulu region. In so doing, he will instill hope in his newly found Orthodox brothers and sisters—a priceless gift for the people living in the Pearl of African’s Crown. View Troy’s missionary journey to Uganda via his photo gallery. CUTLINE .JPG 199 SVS seminarian Troy Hamilton (right) spent his winter semester break in the Gulu region of Uganda, and provided seed money for educational scholarships for native Orthodox Christians. Here, he and Fr. George Lakony, a priest serving two parishes in the Gulu area, explore the countryside in search of a site for a new Orthodox Church. CUTLINE .JPG 61 Ugandan Orthodox Christians “Simon Peter” and “Connie” were among the enterprising college and high students who received scholarships through the generosity of the SVS community and Holy Trinity Church in East Meadow, LI, and the missionary endeavor of 3rd-year seminarian Troy Hamilton. -END-