2011
/ By Event / 2011
Projects: 2011
In 2011 FFA:

  • Allocated $100,000 toward buying health insurance premiums for needy priests' families.
  • Gave scholarships to 12 students of Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, NY
  • Sponsored the purchase of new books and periodicals for the Library of the Eastern-American Diocese
  • Contributed toward tuition for a student at St Tikhon's seminary in South Canaan, PA
  • Sponsored 3 St Herman's youth conferences in Ottawa, Canada, Sunnyvale, CA, Spring, TX
  • Sponsored a family retreat in Germany
  • Granted $55,000 to assist the brethren at Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, WV
  • Sponsored the publication of a "Working with prish youth" handbook for priests
  • Paid for a priest's medical expenses ($6,000)
  • Sponsored 2 winter pastoral conferences in Jordanville, NY and Miami, FL
  • Granted $5,000 to assist the ailing Hegumen Nektraiy at Holy Trinity Skete in Mexico.
  • Granted $3,000 to a family who lost their home to wildfires in Bastrop, TX
  • Bought a motorcycle to provide Fr Christopher Walusimbi (Uganda) with means of transportation around Bukasa Island
  • Gave $5,000 to St John's Academy, the only k-12 school in ROCOR
  • Assisted the family of Fr Sergi Sveshnikov with medical expenses
  • Assisted the South-American Diocese by providing for a priest in Argentina
  • Assisted the family of a needy priest with moving expenses
  • Paid for a laptop, projector and speakers for an Orthodox youth club in Brisbane, Australia.
  • Sponsored 21 young people to attend the IV Orthodox Youth Fellowship in Kursk, Russia
  • Assisted a needy priest in Chile
  • Sponsored a youth pilgrimage to Holy Land from Germany 
  • Assisted Fr Christopher Walusimbi (Uganda) with the purchase of a boat
  • 12th All-Diaspora Russian Orthodox Youth Conference (Paris) (July)
  • Youth summer camp at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY (July-August)
  • ORPR Youth summer camp in Rockford, IL (July-August)
  • Rachmaninoff festival choir in Moscow, Russia (October)
  • FFA to provide airfare to 7 Haitian seminarians traveling to Paris, France to commence their theological education
  • FFA assisted Pastoral School of Chicago
  • FFA sent $20,000 to Orthodox victims in earthquake-stricken Japan
  • FFA sponsored participants in clergy conference
  • Sent $5,000 to a widow of a priest to help pay for his funeral.
  • Assisted a needy priest in the New York area by sending him $2,000 for Easter.
  • Granted $5,000 to an ailing priest (well-known liturgist) in Moscow, Russia in order to help his family survive while he is undergoing treatment.
  • Granted $5,000 to Fr. Gregory Joyce for the completion of his doctoral project on the comparison of the two branches of the Russian Orthodox Church that reconciled in 2007.
  • Sent $2,000 to Fr. Christopher Walusimbi (Uganda) to allow the mission to buy a boat - the only means of transportation to and from the mission's home on Bukasa Island.
  • Granted $1,600 to Holy Trinity Seminary to allow 2 seminarians to travel to the Dominican Republic in order to assist the local priest.
  • Gave a $50K grant for a youth conference in Paris, France

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