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Sinopsis
Educating Our Youth in the Orthodox Faith, Both at Home and in the Parish - "Raising Saints" offers tools to equip adults to share the Orthodox Christian faith with children, shaping the way in which our youth understand their lives.
Episodios
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Teaching the Story
15/05/2014 Duración: 16minElissa shares with us how to get our kids to the place where their worldview is totally dependent on the Christian story.
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Christian Gonzalez on Youth Ministry
08/05/2014 Duración: 54minElissa interviews Christian Gonzalez, the California deanery youth director of the Antiochian Diocese of Los Angeles and the West, about how we need to rethink our approach to ministering to our youth.
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The Light of Pascha
24/04/2014 Duración: 10minElissa reminds us that we are temples of God, meant to light up and become a lamp for the world.
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Traditions of Holy Week and Pascha
10/04/2014 Duración: 25minElissa shares some of the youth-centric traditions of her home parish with regard to Holy Week and Pascha.
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The Devil’s Fast
20/03/2014 Duración: 09minIf you are fasting from meat and dairy products, but you are not praying, studying the word of God, and making an effort to show love and charity, then your fast looks a lot like the devil's fast.
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The Triumph of Orthodoxy: Icons in the Church!
06/03/2014 Duración: 14minThe Sunday of Orthodoxy offers us an opportunity to discuss with our kids the Orthodox understanding of the materiality of this world and its potential for holiness.
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Prayer Groups: the Psalter and the Blessings of Intercession
13/02/2014 Duración: 18minElissa describes the "Psalter group" and its purpose during Great Lent.
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Noah’s Ark: Why We Go to Church
30/01/2014 Duración: 18minElissa tells the complete story of Noah's Ark to demonstrate how doing so can be used to teach children about why we go to—and participate in the disciplines of—the Holy Orthodox Church.
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St. John the Forerunner: Repent!
16/01/2014 Duración: 21minElissa demonstrates how talking about St. John the Forerunner can be a great way to illustrate and understand the roles of the prophets and the saints all at once.
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Praying for Our Children II: In God’s Hands
20/12/2013 Duración: 12minElissa discusses the story of Abraham and Isaac and her favorite prayer for children.
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Praying for Our Children I: St. Porphyrios
05/12/2013 Duración: 07minElissa shares the wisdom of the newly canonized St. Porphyrios with regard to raising up children.
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Exams? Examining St. Euphrosynos
14/11/2013 Duración: 10minElissa addresses the issue of testing Sunday School students.
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YES! Teaching Our Youth to Live the Gospel
30/10/2013 Duración: 19minElissa details what she and her parish learned when FOCUS North America's Youth Equipped to Serve (YES) came to visit Austin, Texas.
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On Being Imperfect
10/10/2013 Duración: 18minElissa expresses how important it is to be honest and humble when teaching children, freely showing our imperfections.
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Tattletale
12/09/2013 Duración: 12minElissa asks, "If the devil's goal is to isolate us from each other and to make us miserable, do you think he is for or against tattling?"
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Humming Theology: The Cherubic Hymn
29/08/2013 Duración: 14minElissa talks about the new hymnology program at her parish in Austih, TX, and then discusses the Cherubic Hymn.
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Camp St. Sava: Talking about Miracles and the Butterfly Circus
18/08/2013 Duración: 12minElissa recounts her week at Camp St. Sava, the official Orthodox summer camp of the Serbian Orthodox Church's Western American Diocese.
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Saved in Community
18/07/2013 Duración: 14minElissa discusses the ways in which it is helpful for our children to have an understanding of how even the imperfections of the people we meet are an important part of how God saves us.
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That’s Not Fair!
20/06/2013 Duración: 14minElissa reminds us that if God were fair, we would be in big trouble.