Christian Youth Mission to Armenia

The CYMA 2010 Application is now posted on the CYMA-WD website under "Important Links"!
http://apply.cyma-wd.org/pilgrimage.php

The deadline for all application materials (including the essay and the initial deposit) is March 1, 2010. The written part of the application can be submitted online and the initial deposit of $1000 and a copy of your passport must be mailed to Sarah Mergeanian at 26135 Tono Mission Viejo CA 92692 for the application to be considered complete.

CYMA 2009 has come and gone. Another year of memories, connections, and changed lives forever.

The CYMA program has been a catalyst of beautiful reflections, blogs, and poems. It's this type of reflection and soul searching that is so powerful and renewing in our Spiritual lives as Armenians and our daily lives as active members of the worldwide Armenian community.

Just like each of you have experienced Armenia, the newest class of 2009 has had time to look back on their journey this summer and begin to reflect on that new perspective in their lives.

I will never forget the 2009 CYMA trip. Few historians ever get the opportunity to see, firsthand, the oldest Christian country in the world. I had so many rare learning experiences that I will be able to share with students in my church history courses for years to come:

· Worshipping God in a church built in the year 430;

· Hearing angelic, glorious acapella liturgies which hearken back to the first centuries of the Christian faith;