Looking for a home church in the Orlando Florida area? That task just got easier with the launch of new church directory called Church Search Orlando. The site, sponsored by Salem Communications, lists all of the churches in the Orlando area of Central Florida. Visitors to the site can search for a church based on proximity to their zip codes, by name, keyword, denomination, city, and specific Zip Code.

December 6th is St. Nicholas' day.  His icon is available now: here.  May 27th is St. Bede's day.  His icon is available here.

The Lectionary is a Guide to the Proper Saying of Matins, Vespers, and Mass for Each Day of the Year, and is a conformable to the Rite of St Tikhon. The Lectionary is $21.99 for the 388 page paperback or $5.99 for download at Lulu.

Rev. John Mason Neale and Rev. Thomas Helmore put together The Hymnal Noted in the 1800s.

Lancelot Andrewes Press is offering through Lulu the 2011. A Liturgical Calendar compatible with the American Missal and representing the traditional Universal Calendar with many commemorations of Saints for every Day of the Year. We hope to represent little prejudice regarding Geography, Jurisdiction, or Sectarian polemics. Readers must use caution in applying this Calendar to their own parochial or private use. The download is $6 and the hard copy calendar is $12.95. Click here to purchase.

The Classical Learning Resource Center offers online classes to students throughout the United States and Canada and overseas. CLRC ha announced its class schedule for the 2010-2011 school year!

Andrea Embroidery returns from Romania poised to serve the needs of Orthodox Parishes and People in the USA.

Journey To Orthodoxy announces the launch of a new, content rich website for inquirers, newcomers and those looking into the Orthodox faith. The launch of a new website at www.journeytoorthodoxy.com, fills a void in online material for inquirers and those struggling to find and enter the Orthodox Church.

CorFun, a leading provider of Joomla-powered Websites has announced a new division focused on small and micro-enterprises. The new division, Visitme.biz, will provide pre-packaged solutions for companies and non-profits which need a lot of online power, but at a price they can afford.

CorFun CIO Glen Chancy explained that companies need a fiexible platform so they can start reasonably and grow their online presences over time. "A local church or a small business comes to us and needs to go online," Chancy explained, "Often they have either never had a Web presence, or they had one that wasn't very effective. The key for us is offering a range of projects that they can afford to step into and with a timeframe that gets them positive return on their investment in a hurry."

Saint Philothea Project partners with Andrea Embroidery

Greenfield Naturals announces its new Website dedicated to Active Mineral Water, Active Liquid Minerals and Vitamins, and Oregano.

Education is a process of opening closed doors in the mind and heart to lead students to virtue and to a deeper understanding of God and His creation. Central to this process is to surround students with an ancient curriculum of virtue, nobility, honor, purity, sacrifice, loyalty, and beauty. CLRC instructors seek to do this through the study of literature, poetry, art, music, science, and theology with their students.

Highlights from the St. Vladimir's Seminary's Board of Trustees meeting.

CLRC is an online Resource Center for teachers and homeschoolers, dedicated to Christian education through Classical Learning. We believe that a Classical education prepares us for life's responsibilities, opens the door to a true understanding of our humanity, and deepens our Faith.

Many studies show that proper consumption of oregano essential oil in very small amounts increases joint and muscle flexibility, reduces inflammatory pain. Studies also prove this essential oil kills parasites and undesirable bacteria in the human body, even the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus.

Tara Concelman is a Behavior Analyst who works with families and also with children who have learning disabilities. Since starting her business, Home First Behavior, Tara has relied solely on word-of-mouth for acquiring clients. Looking to use the web to expand her business, Tara contacted CorFun looking for a website that would allow her to market her business, share links and books with readers, provide online forms for clients, and allow her to easily edit her own content.
 

Virtuemart is the best free shopping cart available for the Joomla content management system. Packed full of features and backed by a huge community, Virtuemart is the heart of many Internet shops. But there is always room for improvement. On Virtuemart stores, the Virtuemart categories are often neglected. They sit over on the side in a Category menu, but for many shops the key to success is getting customers onto category pages as quickly as possible and shopping! Which is why CorFun is pleased to announce the Virtuemart JCategory Scroller! Using the powerful JQuery Javascript library, this new scroller lets you scroll your Virtuemart product categories and showcase them as never before.

LOGOS Web Services offers Web sites that are quick loading, visually pleasing, intuitively structured, and easy to update. We design your site with one thing in mind – to get your visitors to enjoy their interactions with you online. And that means they’ll come back again and again.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 6, 2009– Kansas City, MO

FOCUS North America is excited to announce the extension of its domestic outreach to the poor by receiving the highly acclaimed “Orthodox Youth Outreach” (OYO) program from the Antiochian Archdiocese Department of Youth Ministry and Teen SOYO. Added to FOCUS North America’s diverse ongoing operations and partner ministries, the addition of the OYO program strengthens its domestic ministry to the homeless and hopeless by involving youth in urban service learning opportunities and social action leadership training.

SCOBA gives FOCUS North America a “warm endorsement” for this “welcomed initiative”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 11, 2009 – Kansas City, MO

FOCUS North America made a successful 20-minute presentation on Thursday June 25th, 2009 to the STANDING CONFERENCE OF THE CANONICAL ORTHODOX BISHOPS IN THE AMERICAS (SCOBA) at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral during its Spring 2009 session.

According to Glen Chancy, CIO of CorFun: “Email communication is integral to community based websites.” Glen further explained that Joomla Webmasters running these websites often encounter problems with email communication. Glen says, “Webmasters often need an email to go out targeting site members in a specific state, or zip code, or with a specific set of interests. A Joomla Webmaster with Community Builder installed can easily rely on the Users List function to search for members. Since Community Builder can do simple or complex searches, getting a good list of members with certain common demographics is not hard at all. Trouble is – what do you do with those results when you have them?”

Each year, the Seattle Chapter of the American Harp Society sponsors a composer's competition aimed at generating new intermediate level solos for the harp. This year's winner was Maryjean Zarick with her composition "Syrian Chant." Maryjean's composition is loosely based on traditinal Eastern Orthodox Christian liturgical chant. Since chant is monophonic, having no harmonic structure, the challenge was to create a bass counterpoint, using elements of the chant melody.

The selection process began in October 2009 when committee members accepted a total of 19 compositions. By January 2009, eight of the compositions had made it past the committee and were then distributed to harp students, who were given six months to prepare one piece each for a public concert.

On June 5, 2009, the public was invited to listen as the judges heard the eight pieces performed at the Daniels Recital Hall on 5th Avenue in Seattle, Washington. The recital was video recorded and aired on PBS television on July 1 in the Seattle market. It will air again later this month in the New York cable TV market. The video is a production of International Artists Records and Time-Warner Cable and will eventually be available for viewing at www.intartists.com (Click on Crescento podcasts.)

S. Eugene, AKA “Casey” Cohlmia long time Furniture retailer in Oklahoma and Wichita presented his first work of fiction to the Wichita KS market and the World last week .

We are approaching that time of year when the mail box will be full of announcements from the sons and daughters of friends, relatives and acquaintances announcing the upcoming graduation of a young adult from high school or college.

Obviously a little green is always a welcome gift, as no fledgling adult is ever fully prepared for how expensive life really is. But there is a downside to giving money – because money doesn’t build any memories. That check you give today may help buy some towels for the new place, but that gesture is going to be forgotten. No one remembers a check – unless it has an unforgettable number of zeros on it.

CorFun, a leading provider of eServices, has announced two new extensions for the Virtuemart Shopping Cart System. Virtuemart is the most popular shopping cart system for the Joomla Content Management System - a platform on which CorFun is a leading expert. The two new extensions are a JQuery-based Product Scroller, and the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme.

Since 2002, Penn State scholar Philip Jenkins has been describing in several books the changes and the faces of global Christianity for the 21st century, with membership growth and ecumenical power shifting to the Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America. But his newest book, "The Lost History of Christianity," travels back nearly 1,500 years to a forgotten empire of Christian churches in the Middle East and Asia, co-existing with non-Christian regimes, but eventually falling prey to persecution and ethnic/racial cleansing.

CorFun, a leading provider of eServices, is pleased to announce the launch of its latest Web development project - ChristianMusicInstructors.com. ChristianMusicInstructors.com is a site dedicated to helping music students find qualified and safe teachers in their locality. In this press release, the founder of ChristianMusicInstructors.com, Xavier Aguilar, talks about the impetus for founding this site and the good that it can do for the music community.

PITTSBURGH, PA [OCA Communications] -- On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, His Grace, Bishop Jonah of Fort Worth was elected Archbishop of Washington and New York and Metropolitan of All America and Canada at the 15th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America.

Programs this month will cover topics from Buddhism to Byzantine music, religious freedom to raising faithful kids in today's world. Spread the word and feel free to re-publish the monthly schedule in your parish bulletin or personal Web site.

And, as always, visit www.myocn.net to listen, or subscribe through iTunes.