Albanian Orthodox Church
With the blessing of Archbishop Anastas, the Children’s Office in collaboration with the Protagonist’s school organized an English Camp. Approximately 45 children from this school, the Children’s Home of Hope and some schools in Durres took part. The activity took place at the beautiful monastery of St. Vlash near Durres from June 17 – 21. For the third year in a row a group of young people from the USA participated in leading a camp with the theme “Give thanks for all things; family, nature, environment.” The children learned to see the world around them with new eyes and each became aware of their responsibility in life. The first goal of the camp was to teach more about God and how to give thanks to Him and the second goal was to practice the English language. The program of the camp was spiritual, educational and entertaining. The children took part in art and craft activity, games, dramas, music and discussions regarding the theme of the camp.Every day the children participated in the spiritual talks where were discussed themes such as “Why creation is important? Why should we take care of the world? How is God present in our lives? What do we do to thank God? How to live in communion with God, with others and the environment? How to use our talents in life?”They also participated in English class where they had the chance to practice it and in the art and craft class they learned how to draw a portrait which was also related to the idea that we are icon’s of God, how to draw nature that we see every day, how to keep our environment cleaned and the decoration of a dragon fly through which was transmitted the message “if a dragon fly was created to fly, eat or drink, the human beings are created to live with God every day, to love Him and our family, the neighbor and our environment.”
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