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Youth workers training course A SYNDESMOS Youth Worker Training Course was held here
6-15 September 2000. The event was organised by SYNDESMOS in partnership
with the local Orthodox Youth Fellowship of Saint Moses of Uhrin.
The training course gathered over 40 participants from Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Greece, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia and from
several dioceses throughout Ukraine. The purpose of the event was
to bring together youth workers of different backgrounds and experience
for intensive training as well as to enhance Orthodox youth ministry
in the Ukraine. Among the topics discussed were the establishment
and operation of youth groups, the use of discussions in youth min-istry,
Orthodox Christian education and upbringing, and social work. The
group was really blessed by the presence of Mother Gavrilia, a nun
from the Greek island of Leros, and Deacon Dimitri Leussis, an American
who is currently living in Slovakia. Deacon Dimitri, an iconographer,
contemplated the role and place of icons in the family life and at
home. During a meeting with a representative of the Regional Administration
who oversees Church Affairs, the participants learned about the complex
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