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In 1984, the 27th Clergy-Laity Congress approved the creation of a permenant permanent office for the mission effort, as well as the appointment of a salaried Executive Director. [[Dimitrios (Couchell) of Xanthos|Fr. Dimitrios Couchell]] was appointed by [[Iakovos (Coucouzis) of America|Archbishop Iakovos]] as Executive Director of what was now called the Archdiocesan Mission Center. [[St. Photios National Shrine]] in St. Augustine, Florida provided the first offices for the Center. The first edition of the Mission Center's semiannual publication "Mission," identified the continuation of scholarships to ten mission students as a key priority, along with direct support to the [[Makarios III Patriarchal Seminary]] in Nairobi, [[St. Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Kodiak, Alaska)|St. Herman's Seminary in Kodiak]], indigenous priests in Ghana and Korea, and support for missionaries from the [[Church of Greece]] serving in Africa. By the end of 1985, the Mission Center had announced the appointment of the first full time missionaries to Africa (Fr. Daniel and Nancy Christopoulos), as well as sent a study team to Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.