This August is personally significant; twenty years ago, my wife and I began an unlikely journey into something called Eastern Orthodoxy....

August 15, 2024 — Orthodox Youth and Young Adult Ministries (OYM), an agency of the Assembly of Bishops, will begin distributing a...

The EOCS will continue to promote scouting in the Orthodox church as a ministry of OYM. As of March 15, 2024, The Eastern Orthodox...

It is too easy for the timeless goodness of Orthodoxy to be frozen in the past, but it can be freed through a robust vision for ministry...

The other day, I was searching for a very particular brand of cereal, and as I walked down the aisle, I couldn’t help but be struck by...

- Fyodor Dostoevsky Dear Friends of OYM, I don’t know about you, but my heart is reeling. Our world is a mess. Injustice. Mass violence....

“She looks just like her mom!” Nothing has so ubiquitously been spoken of my youngest daughter. And it’s true. She does have a striking...

“NO, AMELIA! DON’T DO THAT!” This again? I think to myself. If I had a dollar for every time I heard my daughter yell at her sister, I’d...

About the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste The Forty Martyrs were Christians who suffered persecution under Emperor Licinius. In the year 320 AD,...

Over the weekend of March 31, 2023, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Houston, Texas hosted the first OYM 3ETreat. 3ETreats are a...

When I was a kid, there was one question that almost every adult wanted me to answer. It seemed to be a universal preoccupation for...

WASHINGTON, DC – At its inaugural meeting on December 3, the Board of Directors of the newly blessed Youth & Young Adult Ministry Agency...

CHICAGO – At its inaugural meeting on December 3, the Board of Directors of the newly established Youth & Young Adult Ministry Agency...