2019 CrossRoad Alumni Retreat

April 12-14, 2019

Dear CrossRoad Alumni,

Please join us for the 12th annual CrossRoad Alumni Retreat the weekend of April 12-14, 2019 in Boston, MA!

We invite CrossRoad alumni of ALL AGES to participate in what promises to be a beautiful weekend of prayer, fellowship, and learning.

Since our alumni base is 830 strong and ranges in age from 17 to 32 years old, we reserved a beautiful retreat facility that can accommodate our growing community and the needs of both our older and younger alumni! What does this mean? This year, retreat participants will be divided into two tracks:

Track A = alumni between the ages of 17-22
Track B = alumni between the ages of 23-32

While we will be in one facility, eat all together, and hear the same speakers, Track A alumni will be staying in dorm style rooms and Track B alumni will be in suite-style rooms. Additionally, alumni will be split into track-specific small breakout groups. Spouses and children welcome!

Please read the key information and registration form carefully for the lodging and cost breakdown for your respective track.

We are so excited to be able to host the retreat in a space that can accommodate so many more alumni AND can meet the growing needs of our alumni community! Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

With love in Christ,

Ann, Kyra, and Devon

Key Information

Dates
April 12-14, 2019
Location
Hellenic College Holy Cross & The Connors Center
Guest Speaker: Fr. Justin Matthews
Executive Director of Reconciliation Services

See bio below for more about Fr. Justin!
Registration Fee
Track A – $80

Track B – $100 (shared room); $115 (single); $200 (married couple)

Scholarships available. Please email us if you would like to request scholarship funding.
Mail Check To
CrossRoad Office (50 Goddard Avenue Brookline, MA 02445)

Checks made payable to “Hellenic College Inc.” with “CR Alumni Retreat” in the memo line.

Please Note

You will notice the registration fee has increased slightly this year. This reflects that we are in a nicer facility; the actual cost per person is $465-500; our cost to you represents only 25% of the total cost. We welcome and would be thankful for your additional support to help with scholarship aid to others hoping to attend the retreat and to help with our own retreat fundraising goals!

Fr. Justin Matthews

Executive Director of Reconciliation Services

With contagious enthusiasm for leadership and innovation in the nonprofit space and passion for entrepreneurship, Father Justin Mathews is a Kansas City native with 20 years experience developing and executing successful strategies for social mission driven for-profit and not-for-profit organizations at several executive levels. Father Justin Mathews serves as the Executive Director of Reconciliation Services [RS] (www.RS3101.org) a growing nonprofit located at 31st and Troost, the historic racial and economic dividing line of Kansas City, MO. The mission of RS is to “cultivate a community seeking reconciliation to transform Troost from a dividing line into a gathering place, and reveal the strength of all.” In 2018 Fr Justin led the RS team in the launch of Thelma’s Kitchen (www.ThelmasKitchen.org), a healthy communities initiative of RS and a nonprofit social venture. Thelma’s Kitchen is the first “Donate-What-You-Can” community cafe in Kansas City. Fr. Justin is also the founder and a board member of RS Social Ventures, llc, a for-profit social venture company (owned by Reconciliation Services) working to create living wage jobs accessible to public transit and trauma-informed workforce development strategies in the urban core of KCMO.

In addition to his entrepreneurial and nonprofit work Fr. Justin serves on the Core Planning Committee of the Kauffman Foundation’s Kansas City ESHIP Communities Project with the Forward Cities Community Innovation Accelerator, strengthening Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community by working together to make it more inclusive and equitable; graduated from the Centurions Leadership Program with the Greater KC Chamber of Commerce (2018) where he served as the founding Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and on the Steering Committee; and he on the Board of the St. Moses the Black Brotherhood, a national organization linking ancient Christianity with the modern African American experience. Fr Justin also serves as the Senior Priest of St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Christian Church [www.StMaryofEgypt.net] a multicultiral Orthodox Christian faith community in the urban core of Kansas City, MO.

Previously Father Justin was the founding Executive Director of FOCUS North America, the Executive Director of the Heartland Orthodox Christian Council and Museum, and Vice President of Development and Communications for the Nashville Rescue Mission.

After moving to Nashville, TN as a songwriter and performing artist signed to a production label in his early 20’s, Fr. Justin then attended Belmont University where he graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Business and an emphasis in audio engineering. Later, Fr. Justin earned his Master in Divinity from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and was ordained to the Deaconate and then the Priesthood in 2006.

Fr. Justin and his wife Jodi are raising their three teenage sons in the community east of Troost and are active in their neighborhood and the life of the community.