With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim a team of three young people from the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) in the USA will come to the Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria during June-July 2007 for a teaching mission.

The Team is composed of three dedicated and very capable people:

Seraphima Carl (born 1984) 1st year St. Vlad's seminary student; BA in Humanities minor in Biblical Studies. Has organized portions of Vacation Bible Studies, president of OCF, 4 time Team member to Tiajuana Mexico, spent 4 months helping at St. Raphael House, is a Reader in her church, plans to pursue a PhD in Theology and teaching at the seminary level
possibly overseas.

John Diamantis (born 1978) St. Tikhon's student (M. Div completed this summer); BA psychology Penn State 2002; Human developlment and Family Studies minor, carpentry and painting, Bible study leader, musically interested, camp counseler, evangelist at heart, previous team member.

Alex Goodwin (born 1977) OCMC communications director; Computer Info Systems degree; prison ministry, youth work, Sunday school, previous employment - Light and Life, previous team to Kenya.