Heavenly Host Youth Program

Heavenly Host Program

Heavenly Host is a structured program based on the Angelic Ranks, providing age-appropriate activities for 8 to 18 year-old Orthodox Christians.

Sometimes kids want to learn more about their faith, but they don’t always know how. Church school is usually only one day a week. Sometimes parents don’t know how to encourage their kids to participate in the richness that is the Orthodox faith.

The Heavenly Host program helps to provide structure and positive reinforcement. Kids study on their own, or with their friends and family, while their parents encourage them and monitor their progress. Periodically the parish gathers and recognizes the kid’s achievements and presents them with pins to show what they’ve accomplished. This is the Heavenly Host program in a nutshell.

It’s initiated by the kids, monitored by the parents and supported by the parish!

Upcoming Calendar

Fri
21Mar
5:00 Panikhida
Sat
22Mar
5:00PM Great Vespers
Sun
23Mar
Third Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Cross
9:10 The Hours 9:30 Divine Liturgy.
4:00PM Sunday of the Cross: Place TBD

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It is orthodox, but not Jewish. It is catholic, but not Roman.
It is not denominational, it is pre-denominational.
It has believed, taught, preserved, defended, and died for the
Faith of the Apostles since the Day of Pentecost nearly 2,000 years ago.”
– Our Life in Christ

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