LINK: 2019 DOS Schedule Download – Subject to Change
MONDAY – July 22nd, 2019
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Break 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm)
BISHOP’S COUNCIL MEETING (Monday) Hotel Location –DUNES A
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm BISHOP’S COUNCIL DINNER
Restaurant Location – BRAVO (across corner from hotel)
TUESDAY – July 23rd, 2019
9:00 am – 12:00 am (Break 10:30 am – 10:45 am)
DIOCESAN COUNCIL MEETING BEFORE LUNCH
Hotel Location – DUNES A
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm DIOCESAN COUNCIL LUNCH
Hotel Location – DUNES B
12:00 pm – 8:00 pm REGISTRATION OPEN (Tuesday)
Hotel Location/ PRE-FUNCTION
EXHIBITION SETUP – PRE-FUNCTION
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm DIOCESAN COUNCIL MEETING CONTINUES
Hotel Location – DUNES A
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm VESPERS / ASSEMBLY WELCOME / ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hotel Location – PRESERVE
5:30 pm – DINNER ON THE TOWN / Local Harbourside on your own
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm BEGIN YOUTH PROGRAM SCHEDULE – Meeting with parents, chaperones and youth. Fr. Silviu Bunta to address the youth – Hotel Location – IBIS room
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CHOIR PRACTICE with Reader Alexander
Hotel Location –Preserve (LINK to music)
WEDNESDAY – July 24th, 2019
7:45 am – 8:30 am TRAVEL to St. James
There will be a charter bus leaving the hotel at 7:45 for those who don’t have their own transportation. If you have a vehicle and can take someone who needs a ride, please meet in the hotel lobby at 7:30. The bus only holds 50-60.
9:00 am – 11:30 am PONTIFICAL DIVINE LITURGY
St. James the Apostle Orthodox Church
2201 SE Airoso Boulevard
Port St. Lucie, FL 34984
11:30 am – 12:30 pm BRUNCH SERVED
Location: St. James Church Hall
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm TRAVEL to Hotel
!:30 pm YOUTH PROGRAM (Ages 7-13 and Ages 13-17) Drop off Hotel Location – IBIS room (Field Trip to Rapids Water Park)
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm PLENARY SESSION I (with Archbishop ALEXANDER)
Location Hotel – PRESERVE
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm CHOIR PRACTICE
Hotel Location –Preserve
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm VESPERS with Announcements following
Location Hotel – PRESERVE
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
DINNER ON THE TOWN – Harbourside on your own
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Guest Speaker / Location Hotel – PRESERVE – Fr. Silviu Bunta, “‘The Father takes us into His house’: Insights into the Liturgy from Fr. Aimilianos of Simonopetra.”
9:00 pm Pick up children at Hotel Location – IBIS
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm CHOIR PRACTICE
Hotel Location –Preserve
THURSDAY – July 25th. 2019
7:00 am – 8:30 am MATINS
Location Hotel – PRESERVE
8:30 – 10:00
BREAKFAST / Harbourside on your own
9:30 am – 9:30pm YOUTH PROGRAM (Ages 7-12 and Ages 13-17)Hotel Location – IBIS (For full schedule see Youth tab)
10:00 am – 12:30 pm PLENARY SESSION II : (with Archbishop Alexander)
Location Hotel – PRESERVE
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm LUNCH
• Clergy Wives with Archbishop ALEXANDER / Hotel Location – DUNES A
• Lay Delegates and Observers – Lunch at a restaurant of your choice
Clergy Delegates – complimentary lunch w/ Fr. Silviu Bunta, “Translation matters: Things that struck me in Translating the Heratikon.” – Hotel Location PRESERVE A
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: SEMINAR (Speaker Joseph Kormos)
Director of Mission & Evangelization, DOWPA “A Living or Dying Church: Our Choice, Our Church:” a challenge for Church Growth & Evangelism in the 21st Century. He will be using the handout on the attached link during his presentation: A Collection of Practical Principles of Orthodox Evangelism
Hotel Location – PRESERVE
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm: FOCUS GROUP – OCCIF
Orthodox ChurchCapital Improvement Fund / Hotel Location – TBD
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm COCKTAILS RECEPTION
Hotel Location – PRE-FUNCTION
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm BANQUET DINNER (Speaker Fr. Paul Yerger)
Hotel Location – PRESERVE
9:30 pm – AFTER HOURS FELLOWSHIP
Location – Harbourside on your own
FRIDAY – July 26th, 2019
8:00 am – 10:30 am CLERGY BREAKFAST with Archbishop ALEXANDER
Location Hotel – DUNES
11:00 am – 6:00 pm EXPLORE JUPITER / TRAVEL