Militants of TAW starting January 2006 (Introduction Thread)

SumTinWong · #11 10th January 2006, 06:14 PM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional)
Bud Scott, or Uncle Bud
2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)
Bulgarian Orthodox, in East Syracuse NY
3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer
Serious Inquirer, but struggling every day
4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc
I am married to my best friend and the love of my life. I have a golden retriever named Angie. Got my GED in 2003, love the Cubbies and the Tigers, I work as a home health aide for a great man in a wheel chair, yadda yadda...

Dust and Ashes · #12 10th January 2006, 06:28 PM

Real Name: Brad Thomas

Jurisdiction: Antiochian

Status: Catechumen

Patron: St. Seraphim of Sarov

Turn ons: Dark poetry, scifi, beer and pizza

Turn offs: Shopping, table games and rap music

eoe · #13 10th January 2006, 06:30 PM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional)

Rob

2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)

GOArch

3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer (by this we mean that you have started attending an Orthoodox Church and meeting with the Priest or someone they designate to teach you about the faith)

I suppose I am a serious inquirer.

4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc

Married w 2 kids.
I have 3 dogs - Big, Bigger, and Chihuahua
My Dad an I started mountain biking last year when I quit smoking and we are still at it (yay!)
My church activity is trying to get in

I went to Reinhardt College and was prompty kicked out (oops!)
My wife and I own 2 mortgage companies.
I was raised Methodist by Baptist parents and eventually got disenchanter with the Methodists. In my search for a church I became more and more fundamentalist in my outlook until I came here and started researching Orthodoxy. The truth hit me like a brick and I was forced to admit that I was wrong on many things. So....Here I am.

EricTheRed · #14 10th January 2006, 07:46 PM

Eric

OCA

inquirer

I am 16 and I play paintball and have a Xbox 360. I am still trying to talk to the priest at church. I have been on and off baptist for most of my life.

gzt · #15 10th January 2006, 09:35 PM

I am gzt. See my icon for details.
Whatever it takes, but I'm dogmatically OCA.
I am, at this time, Orthodox.
Sometimes I'm an altar boy. I like the shiny robes. I often have a large beard.

HandmaidenOfGod · #16 11th January 2006, 01:23 AM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional)

Real name:Maureen
Namesday: Oct 1, The Feast of the Protection of the Theotokos

2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)

OCA

3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer (by this we mean that you have started attending an Orthoodox Church and meeting with the Priest or someone they designate to teach you about the faith)

I'm a Cradle-Convert.

(Yes I did have to be that difficult and create my own category! lol)
I was baptised into the Orthodox Church as an infant, and raised in both the Orthodox and Baptist Church's as a child and young adult. I finally "came home" to the Orthodox Church during Great Lent of 2004, and I'm here to stay.

4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc

I'm a born and raised Jersey girl, I love NY Jets fooball, and I sing alto in my Church's choir.

theoforos · #17 11th January 2006, 03:37 AM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional):

Mikael, St. Michael the Archangel

2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)

Orthodox Church of Finland (an autonomous church under the EP)

3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer (by this we mean that you have started attending an Orthoodox Church and meeting with the Priest or someone they designate to teach you about the faith)

Chrismated in May 2005, used to be Lutheran.

4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc

Single, two master's degrees: business + languages, employed within finance.

Kolya · #18 11th January 2006, 05:51 AM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional)
User name:Kolya Real Name: Philip Loren Venter Name day Name: Nikolai for New Holy Martyr St Tsar Nicholas II celebrated July 17
2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)
St Sergius of Radonezh parish under Moscow Patriarchate (ROC) in Johannesburg, South Africa. However, our parish is also subject to the local GO Metropolitan of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer
Convert - Chrismated on Palm Sunday 2004 - 04/04/04.
4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc
Like Uncle Bud, I am married to my best friend and the love of my life.

I sing in the Choir for the English Language Divine Liturgies we hold once a month.

Ioannis · #19 11th January 2006, 07:32 PM

1. Real first name or Nameday Name (this like everything is optional):

John

2. What jurisdiction your parish is in. (OCA, Greek, etc.)

Back home, Greek Archdiocese
Here, Orthodox Church in Japan

3. Status: Cradle Orthodox, Convert, Catecumen, Serious Inquirer (by this we mean that you have started attending an Orthoodox Church and meeting with the Priest or someone they designate to teach you about the faith)

Cradle Orthodox

4. Any other interesting bits of information you want to share such as: marital status, children, pets, hobby's, church activies such as singing in the choir, educational background, what you do for a living, etc

Single, and in the Air Force stationed in Japan. Before I joined the Air Force, I was an Altar boy "director" at my parish. I'm considering going to seminary once I get out of the military. I wish I had time for hobbies. I could pick up snowboarding, but I'm not big on any activities that make me have to be out in the cold and snow. If I have any hobbies, it's probably just reading. All and all, I'm just kind of boring.

Ioan cel Nou · #20 12th January 2006, 05:11 AM

Hi, I posted in the old thread but, my name is James (patron saint James the Persian, celebrated on 27th November), I'm a convert in the Orthodox Church of Romania. I was actually Chrismated in a Greek parish but was married in a Romanian church and now worship at the Romanian parish of St. Macarios the Great in Mirfield, Yorkshire. As far as Church activities go, I'm basically just your average layman, though (being the only Englishman in the parish, as far as I know) I do tend to get much of the English prayers, creed etc. to read. I'm also trying to learn to sing the responses properly in Romanian so that, hopefully I can sing in the choir (although I have mixed feelings about this - when I sing others seem to join in who don't normally - shamed by the foreigner? - and I'm not sure being in the choir would have the same effect.

I'm married to a cradle Orthodox Romanian called Gabriela (since 2001) and have two children, a boy aged three and a half and a girl who was born on 15th December (William Stefan Vlad and Sabina Daniela Ioana respectively). We have a moggy called Tabitha who basically just uses our home as a hotel - not sure whether she's our pet or we are hers.

James