• August 16th – Denver – 12K Bike/Walk
  visit www.iocc.org/denver for more information

• August 23rd – Washington D.C. – Wine Tasting
  visit www.iocc.org/washington for more information

• August 26th – Orange County – One In Spirit Dinner

• August 30th – Pittsburgh – One In Spirit Dinner

August Parish Bulletin Announcement Please post this announcement in your weekly or monthly bulletin. Hope for Kosovo: Every dollar you donate to IOCC for Kosovo will now be matched up to $100,000. Help us repair schools, provide educational programs, and sustainable agriculture training to families living in the most isolated communities of Kosovo. You can help us continue providing assistance to communities in Kosovo by making a donation today. Call IOCC’s donation hotline toll-free at 1-877-803-4622, make a gift on-line at www.iocc.org, or mail a check or money order payable to “IOCC” and write “Kosovo” in the memo line to: IOCC, P.O. Box 630225, Baltimore, Md. 21263-0225.

AUGUST VOLUNTEER ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The 2007-2008 Prayer Journal will be mailed out the end of this month. Please share this great activity journal with all the children you know. Use the order form found here to order single copies. To order more than one copy, contact the Department of Religious Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese [800-566-1088]. The prayer journal is free, but shipping charges may apply.
• New Financial Procedures will be ready for all Metropolitan Committees to use this by September 1st. If you are currently in charge of you committee finances, please contact IOCC if you have additional questions after the procedures are sent out.
• Please make sure to keep posting the Priest to Priest on your parish bulletin boards and order IOCC informational materials at www.iocc.org/materials. Many times you are the only resource people have to keep them aware and up to date on who IOCC is and what we do!

VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH

After completing a Masters in Theology at Holy Cross Seminary in Boston, Karim Bishay volunteered at IOCC this summer. “I wanted to help IOCC put the commandments to love and serve those in need into practice ... I learned about the workings of a nonprofit and saw how much heart and brain has to go into an operation like IOCC and some of the real sacrifices people make for those in need.” This fall, Karim will start his first year at Boston University to get his MBA in Non Profit Management. Karim hopes to work with the Coptic Church in starting an Orthodox home helping those in need – homeless, elderly, pregnant teens, drug addicts, etc.

REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

IOCC had been working in Georgia since 1994 and is currently working on two major projects pictured below.

Drug Abuse Prevention Project IOCC is currently working with the Georgian Orthodox Church on a community education project to reach nearly 2 million Georgian youths and their parents with drug abuse prevention messages.
Pilot Agricultural Business Local farmers are now learning to raise grass-fed cattle through an Agricultural Demonstration Farm that was initiated in late 2007 with the Georgian Orthodox Church and the University of Maryland. IOCC is also providing a separate cash grant to the agri-business division of the Patriarchate of Georgia for the processing and sale of cattle feed.

For more information, please visit www.iocc.org/georgia.