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All GOYA Inquiries:
GOYA@stgeorge.org
G.O.Y.A. is a vibrant youth ministry at St. George that allows 7th-12th graders to grow and develop their relationship with God through participation in various activities and events. These activities and events encompass the four pillars of GOYA: Fellowship, Witness, Service, and Outreach.
Our calendar is filled with various events beginning in September and ending in June. We also on occasion do summer events.
Some favorite G.O.Y.A. activities include monthly Youth Nights, monthly Orthodox Life events, Sights & Sounds, community service, fundraisers, religious retreats, Basketball tournaments, Ski Trips and more. All of our events are live streamed via Zoom, so when you register for an event you can choose either to attend in person (in person events are always outdoors or in Church) or to attend virtually.
GOYA is about meeting other Orthodox youth, growing spiritually and about having fun! We have a tight knit group of GOYAns and feel we are a Orthodox Christian family in Christ. To learn more, please contact us at GOYA@stgeorge.org
To register for GOYA, please register for Youth Ministries at St. George and choose GOYA: https://stgeorge.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/413/responses/new
GOYA Board for 2020 to 2021
President: Simo Agritellis
Vice‐President-One: Irene Haramis
Vice‐President-Two: Tyler Barberis
Treasurer: Steven Haramis
Secretary: Alexia Contos
Social Media Coordinator: Litsa Berns
Historian: Athena Stayeas
Middle School Representative: Roxana Stayeas
Worship & Orthodox Life Representative: Maria Farmakides
GOYA Parent Coordinators
Vasilia Contos (Service)
Julie Georgelakis (Witness & Finance)
Rhea Karavangelos (Orthodox Life & Worship)
Christina Stayeas (Fellowship)
To reach the entire GOYA Parents Coordinators Committee, please email GOYA@StGeorge.org
St. George GOYA
2020-2021 Tentative Calendar of Events
*Any event may be subject to change*
GOYA Orthodox Life takes place on one of the Saturdays of every month. Here, in the context of games and team building activities, we enrich our understanding of our holy Orthodox Christian Faith and learn to live it in every situation of our lives. We are not just Orthodox On Sundays, but every single day, hour, minute, second, microsecond and so on of our lives. We are called to witness our Orthodox Faith through our lives by living an Orthodox Life.
St. Paisios the Athonite on living an Orthodox Life:
“Silence greatly helps in spiritual life. It is good for one to practice silence for about an hour a day: to test oneself, to acknowledge one’s passions and to fight in order to cut them off and purify one’s heart. It is very good if there is a quiet room in the house. There, ‘in secret,’ one is able to do one’s spiritual maintenance, to study, and to pray. A little spiritual study done before prayer helps greatly. The soul warms up and the mind is transported to the spiritual realm. That’s why, when a person has many distractions during the day, he or she should rejoice if he or she has ten minutes for prayer, or even two minutes to read something, so as to drive away distractions” (Family Life, by Elder Paisios the Athonite. Souroti, Greece: Sacred Hesychastirion of St. John the Evangelist, 2002).
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