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The roots of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center go back to the late 1950's, when students at [[Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross School of Theology]] began to accept students from sub-saharan Africa. Other members of the student body began a Missions Committee to raise support for their fellow-students, and to raise consciousness in general about the work of the Church in Africa. Among the leaders of this effort was [[Alexander Veronis]], later to become the founding President of OCMC.
As the students touched by this outreach graduated and began to serve parishes in the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America|Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America]], their interest in mission followed them and began to have an impact across the Archdiocese. In response to a proposal at the 17th Clergy-Laity Congress in 1966, the Archdiocese organized the Standing Committee on Missions. This committee, composed of twenty volunteer clergy and lay members, conducted an annual solicitation for overseas Missions throughout the parishes of the Archdiocese, primarily directed at providing scholarship assistance to Mission students from Uganda, Kenya, Korea, and Mexico. Bishop Silas of Amphipolis was the Chairman of the Standing Commitee. Fr. Alexander Veronis and Fr. [[Fr. Alexander Doumouras]] served to coordinate the efforts of the Committee, but there was no salaried staff dedicated to the committee or to missions efforts.
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