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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the everlasting 
mercies which sent you to us, O 

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Christ, the Light of the world 
and the life of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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knowledge. 
Sanctify our souls by your truth

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and grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfill your commandments at 
every hour, O you. 

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Who enlightens the rational with
the knowledge of your greatness?

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Do enlight, O my Lord, our 
thoughts that we may meditate 

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upon your holy and divine 
scriptures at all times, O Lord 

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of all. 
Father and Son and Holy Spirit 

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forever. 
Amen. 

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Psalm 119 verse nine reads. 
How does a young man purify his 

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way? 
And he gives us the answer to 

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keep your commandments. 
It is an honor for me to have a 

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special, very special guest very
dear to the heart. 

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My brother core Bishop give 
Arges Rashu, known as Father G 

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from the Saint Mary's Assyrian 
Church of the East Parish in Los

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Angeles and also the. 
The President of the National 

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Executive Committee, NEC. 
I will refer to him as Rabi 

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Rabi, means teacher. 
This is how we refer to our 

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spiritual fathers, the priests. 
Our Reverend Fathers, Rabi Rabi,

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welcome, great great to have you
on with us. 

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Thank you, dear brother. 
I am humbly honored. 

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Honestly, I'm humbly honored to 
be part of this wonderful 

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program which I have heard so 
much about. 

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Thank you for the opportunity. 
Thank you for your service, dear

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brother Vice Jinard. 
Thank you for what you do, and I

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pray that the Lord will guide us
through this talk through His 

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interview, that we may glorify 
Him and all that we say. 

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I mean at all times. 
We are recording at the National

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Youth Conference, the North 
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North America Youth conference, 
the 35th Youth Conference. 

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We are in Sacramento. 
So this program or this episode 

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was recorded when we were at the
National Executive, the National

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Youth Conference. 
Robbie, please just enlighten 

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the listeners a little about the
National Executive Committee. 

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The National Executive Committee
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It is a committee representing 
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States and Canada, which we're 
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executive branch of it, which is
the president and vice president

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and secretary and treasurer, are
appointed. 

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In this way, the bishops choose 
the president and the president.

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Chooses his vice president, his 
cabinet, his vice president, his

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secretary and his treasurer with
the approval of the bishops, and

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then each diocese, each Bishop 
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the respectable diocese. 
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four can combine together the 16
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executive committee of. 
The Youth for North America. 

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We know that the the, the, the, 
the foundation of the Youth 

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Association was founded by the 
late His Holiness, smarter than 

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her, of blessed memory. 
When did NEC actually come into 

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fruition or who found it and how
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established? 
The way the way the NEC started,

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it was a a fruit or a branch or 
a product of the youth 

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conference itself, the youth. 
Conference started 37 years ago,

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even though it's the 35th, 
because we had missed a couple 

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years 37 years ago by some youth
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We had, as you say, the late 
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youth association within 
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parishes were growing, some of 
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parishes decided. 
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called calling it a convention, 
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And their aim was their goal was
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of other PR issues. 
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Of course it started small. 
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It was a Saturday, Sunday kind 
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It started small with I remember
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It was 80 participants and then.
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conference and a few years ago 
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Conference, which consists of 
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Few years back during still the 
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his, the late, his onlyness, 
Martha the Patriarch, Martha the

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4th. 
It was during his time when a an

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official committee was 
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it was. 
His Holiness, now His Grace. 

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You and I were both part of that
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And then for seven years, he led
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his election as patriarch. 
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office, and that's how it formed
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It's still building itself, 
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New paths. 
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But then, glory be to God, it's 
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heading in the right. 
Direction I began with some 119 

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verse 9. 
How does a youth or a young man 

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purify his way? 
But, and the answer is to keep 

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your commandments. 
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the strives that the National 
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itself into? 
On a on a diocese level and on a

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Northern America level, what are
some of the programs or what are

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some of the the endeavors that 
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bring this verse into fruition 
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The NEC plays the role of the 
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Brother, Big Brother. 
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guiding. 
Walking along the younger 

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brother. 
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local level parish youth 
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the youth on the local levels. 
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brother and and the older 
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protect, strengthen, talk, to 
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younger brother. 
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has been. 
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committees and and and in that 
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it's looked upon as a reward for
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members looked upon as a reward 
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To if you are part of us, you 
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something nice. 
You belong to a a larger group. 

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You belong to a larger family. 
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throughout the years at this 
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I'm sure there's been a lot of 
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challenges, of course. 
Can you name a few? 

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And what the NEC is doing to 
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Just like any journey, it's a 
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through the journey, we 
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challenges because we live. 
In a fallen world, there are 

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temptations. 
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And so, just like in our normal 
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we face them also as a group, as
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And some of these challenges, 
for example, is losing our young

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to to the world. 
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conference is not of this world.
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Why are we establishing these 
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And because we we want to arise 
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towards Christ which is our true
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And we have to be able to show 
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difference between the world. 
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and the world God created us 
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easier the the road is wide and 
and it's easy for people to walk

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and it you know the the one of 
the fallen world and so to come 

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to a young 141516 year old and 
persuade them or show them the 

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truth. 
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know, it's not easy, but that's 
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right? 
Is steer their kids in the right

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direction. 
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NAC's job is to be that older 
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challenges and to to speak their
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Because some of the challenges 
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example, our parents, our 
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liturgies. 
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in different play, in different 
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was formed in a different 
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in a totally different place, 
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culture, different challenges, 
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It just seems night and day and 
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Bring them to something that 
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It's not easy, so you have to 
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them see why why A prayer was 
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way, for example. 
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paint that picture for them and 
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And I that's one of the 
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that we. 
Do I mean and and and the themes

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of the the conferences 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, Robbie.
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different perspective within the
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I believe the Church Fathers, 
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Is that helping the youth when 
they you know the theme is not 

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of this world and we have a 
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This theme from the perspective 
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sacraments, is there a Does it? 
Does it affect their thinking 

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and understanding and enlighten 
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I believe because the 
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with due respect are doing a 
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bringing for example say that 
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century, 1600 years ago. 
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One of the great fathers. 
Renowned. 

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Very. 
Quite renowned throughout the 

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whole church now. 
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name St. 
Ephraim wouldn't relate to they 

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wouldn't know what it is. 
But when when explained in their

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language, Okay in today's terms,
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explained St. 
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Where they were at, ah, they 
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that so you know. 
That simplest simplicity in the 

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terms simplicity in the way it's
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it really is helping you know, 
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You know when you're young this 
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when you're older this is the 
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So that's it's really based on 
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Thought. 
Apart from our young man meeting

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our young sisters and some 
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you know, some people approached
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let's call a spade a sabe. 
There are a few young men here 

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who actually are looking to find
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acquainted with and maybe one 
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married. 
Apart from those success 

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stories, which we have a few. 
In this conference, we have the 

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children of a couple that met at
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What are some of the other 
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National Executive Committee? 
I believe our #1 mission and 

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goal has been throughout the 
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years where we understood more. 
Our mission has been to bring 

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these young people to Christ, 
and I believe we're working much

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harder at it now than before. 
In the beginning, I remember 37 

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years ago, we didn't understand 
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We were all young. 
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young have become fathers, and 
grandfathers have learned 

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throughout the experiences the 
need of what the mission should 

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be and how it should be steered.
And so bringing them to Christ 

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has been our number of mission, 
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I I see success. 
I personally success and I hear 

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from parents, from you 
themselves testimonies of how 

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life are changing. 
You know, they're coming up to 

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me and saying, you know, so and 
so presenter said this three 

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years ago. 
It impacted my life. 

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It made, it changed my decision.
So that's the greatest thing 

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that you know we see the change 
in people's life, the how 

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they're being touched and how. 
They're changing paths and 

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choosing right and also many of 
the clergy that we have today, 

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our product of the youth. 
I mean His Holiness. 

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His Holiness the Patriarch of 
the Church, well, I remember, 

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you know, at one time before he 
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he was a member of the youth. 
He was a young member of the 

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youth and became part of the 
youth and chose. 

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You know, I'm sure it was God's 
choosing, but chose to serve the

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Lord. 
And now you know. 

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Look how blessed the Church is 
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And many of the Dikas you see 
today, serving as you know, our 

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product of the youth. 
And presenting very well to you.

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And I are product of the youth. 
I am Zaman, yeah. 

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We're. 
Not youth anymore, but we're 

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prodigating. 
Speak with yourself, right? 

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You mentioned something very 
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takes a hymn, a verse. 
It brought to mind John, chapter

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4, verse 18. 
The lady at the well Christ 

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engaged in the conversation with
her, but when he said to her you

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have 5 husbands and the one you 
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husband, touch the heart. 
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And she went and converted a 
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and and that is so evident in in
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I always say you'll never have 
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But what God wants and permits 
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rate. 
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ministry currently under the the
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But eventually it will be a new 
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know you have been quite engaged
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Just tell us a little bit about 
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The salt and light is a product 
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What we saw as as servants in 
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that when our young were 
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They were not engaging in our 
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because they felt they're older,
they're getting married, they're

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having children. 
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a ministry that they can belong 
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And speaking, you know, 
discussing these issues at our 

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NEC, what should we do? 
These are, you know, these are 

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our members still and part of 
us, and now they're not and so 

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this. 
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this thought of having 
establishing a new ministry and 

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it's called the salt and light, 
the association of salt and 

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light of the syringes of the 
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And the reason it's called that,
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Lord called us to be the salt 
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mission of the this ministry is 
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Have these young people between 
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salt and light that the Lord has
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And so now we have committees 
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Phoenix or Arizona area, 
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Those areas we have one 
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area. 
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course. 
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establishing with your help dear
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or we might have to depending on
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the need. 
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the Bishop of Canada. 
I believe in October if I'm not 

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mistaken we'll be heading to 
Canada and establishing the one 

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for Canada and the but the main 
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On the word of God. 
Establishing the Word of God in 

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their life, in their mind, in 
their deeds and in their 

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thoughts, and so built because 
they're new parents, they are 

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professionals, they are leaders,
and we want them to live 

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according to the word of God and
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The Word of God being the food 
to the soul and the light to the

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path. 
Thank you, Robbie. 

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I know you're busy. 
And again, I will remind that 

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this session was recorded during
the conference and we're running

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around like headless chucks do 
They say no, not the youth are 

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doing an amazing job, an amazing
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And I want to, I want to take 
this opportunity to thank you, 

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Robbie, for your hard work, not 
just for this conference, but 

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throughout the years. 
You've been a dear brother, 

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you've been a a true servant and
you're. 

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You have no idea how many lives 
you've impacted as a priest. 

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Honestly, many young people come
to me and tell me of of the 

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influence you've had on their 
life. 

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And thank you for serving. 
Thank you for your love. 

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Thank you for your dedication. 
The church needs you. 

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The church needs people like 
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Yeah, you you have. 
Honestly, you are the light and 

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the salt that the Lord calls you
to be in our church and. 

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The York committee has done an 
outstanding job for this 

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particular conference. 
These young people, these 

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volunteers, the hours they put 
in the the sleepless nights they

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go through these days, This is 
the love that Christ called us 

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to have for one another. 
This is how they're showing 

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their love to their peers, to 
their brothers and sisters. 

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You can see in their service 
carrying these water. 

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Cases driving here and there, 
spending not only money from 

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their pocket, not only their 
time, not only their effort, but

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their gifts. 
Many of them are professionals. 

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They bring their gifts and use 
them to manage and run these 

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conferences. 
And they're doing a remarkable 

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job. 
Many of them might hire somebody

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to do many things that they're 
doing now, so. 

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We're grateful and thankful for 
all of you. 

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God bless you. 
God be with you. 

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We will pray with our feeble 
mind, with our feeble soul, for 

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your success and and for the 
Lord. 

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To be glorified, always to be 
glorified, but for the Lord to 

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reward you, because no matter 
you know what we say, it's 

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limited. 
It's. 

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Perishable this. 
World. 

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Yeah, exactly what this. 
But the Lord will He will reward

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you and glory be tasteful. 
Thank you. 

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I mean likewise with yourself. 
We met in the 2006 was my first 

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conference at that dance. 
It was at Los Angeles, I 

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remember when I got off the bus.
You came and we embraced each 

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other as though we knew we 
sometimes we don't see eye to 

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eye because we're human beings 
but the love we have for one 

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another and the zeal that you 
have. 

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Robbie by the way, I forgot to 
mention 5 minutes with it's not 

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5 minutes usually 10 to 15 
minutes. 5 minutes with Father G

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is the Facebook live session 
Robbie presents. 

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It's all from the scriptures and
I've heard the you know many 

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many great feedback and. 
At the end of the day, Ravi, we 

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always say we are unworthy 
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We truly are unworthy servants 
of Jesus Christ. 

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And he uses truly he uses the 
weak and the fool to put to 

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shame. 
That's what amazes. 

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Me. 
Yeah. 

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God shows me, yeah. 
Wow. 

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Who? 
Me. 

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Me, that's what. 
Who wasn't what? 

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Moses said that, didn't he? 
Who is me? 

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I'm not like I have a stutter. 
Unbelievable. 

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Honestly, unbelievable. 
Thank you, Robbie. 

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Thank you so much. 
And may the Lord's blessings and

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guidance and protection be upon 
your you and your flock. 

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The amazing job that you were 
doing. 

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And all those brother fathers, 
reverend fathers that maybe are 

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listening to these that are he, 
you know they're participating 

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in the in the conference. 
May God be glorified in all that

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we do. 
And then what we say so that 

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he's and I always say this so 
that. 

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We can hear those amazing words 
from the lips of our Lord and 

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Savior Jesus Christ, well done, 
good and faithful servant, and 

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to the Kingdom of your Heavenly 
Father. 

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Praise and glory be to His holy 
name now, under all times, and 

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forever and ever. 
Amen. 

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