Orthodox Christian Fellowship

Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) is the official college campus ministry of the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 1976 under SCOBA. It is a Pan-Orthodox effort, overseen by an Executive Committee and aided by a sixteen-person Student Advisory Board. The office is located in Boston, Massachusetts, where full time staff develops OCF, guiding and supporting local OCF chapters through communication with the larger Orthodox community, national programs, and development of resources Orthodox college students and those interested in Orthodoxy can utilize.

Activities & efforts

Each year OCF celebrates a winter retreat during late December, at the Antiochian Village in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, on the East Coast and at St. Nicholas Ranch Dunlap, California, on the West Coast.OCF also sponsors Real Break as an alternative to the "traditional" spring break, which provides opportunities for spiritual growth with direct interaction with a priest accompanying each group. Over the past four years OCF has had over 350 Orthodox students from all over North America participate in Real Break during their spring break. In 2004, trips were made to Project Mexico, Hogar Rafael Ayau in Guatemala, Raphael House in San Francisco, Greece and Alaska.Another effort of the OCF is The Basil Leaf, the official newsletter of the central office. It serves as the main source of communication between the office and all Orthodox college students in the United States, covering relevant questions, controversial issues and activities. On August 21, 2006, OCF hired Fr. Kevin Scherer as its first full time Executive Director in the ministry's 30-year history. At the same time, Mr. John Stonestreet was hired as OCF Chaplain in Charlotte, North Carolina. The hirings were a result of OCF receiving an Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund Grant.

List of OCFs

According to the Official Website, there are currently 347 OCF communities in North America. Some popular OCFs:

1. University of Northern Colorado
2. * Texas A&M University
3. * University of Notre Dam
4. * Boston University
5. * Rutgers University - New Brunswick
6. * University of Virginia
7. * Drexel/UPenn OCF
8. * Baylor University
9. * University of Florida
10. * University of Maryland - College Park
11. * Michigan State University
12. * University of Minnesota
13. * Arizona State University
14. * Pitt/CMU OCF
15. * George Mason University
16. * University of Chicago
17. * Washington & Jefferson College
18. * Duke University
19. * North Carolina State University
20. * Orange County OCF
21. * Georgetown University
22. * Houston OCF
23. * Auburn University
24. * Oklahoma State University
25. * Lynchburg OCF
26. * MCGill University
27. * Syracuse OCF
28. * University of Texas - Austin
29. * Clemson University
30. * University of California - Berkeley
31. * SUNY - Stony Brook University
32. * CUNY - Hunter College
33. * Boston College
34. * Kennesaw State University
35. * Slippery Rock University
36. * Albany OCF
37. * Saint Anselm College
38. * University of Kentucky
39. * Georgia Southern University
40. * University of Washington
41. * University of Toronto
42. * Five Colleges OCF
43. * Purdue University
44. * Kent State University
45. * Case Western Reserve University
46. * University of Central Florida
47. * Old Dominion University
48. * Northeastern University
49. * Tufts University
50. * Cleveland State University
51. * Elon University
52. * Virginia Commonwealth University
53. * Carleton University
54. * Harvard University
55. * Florida State University
56. * University of Kansas
57. * San Diego OCF
58. * Virginia Tech/Radford
59. * Adelphi University
60. * Columbia University
61. * Yale University
62. * Louisville University
63. * Indiana University - Bloomington
64. * Butler University
65. * California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
66. * John Hopkins University
67. * Hofstra University
68. * Hillsdale College
69. * Central Michigan University
70. * Abilene OCF
71. * Furman University
72. * Northwestern University
73. * Washington University - St. Louis
74. * Messiah University (Mechanicsburg)
75. * Cincinnati OCF
76. * Texas Tech University
77. * University of Miami
78. * University of St. Thomas - Minnesota
79. * University of Iowa
80. * University of Wisconsin
81. * University of Southern California
82. * University of Nevada - Las Vegas
83. * Eastern University

External links

• Orthodox Christian Fellowship (official website)