2008 Conference August 22nd - 24th

'Find Us Ready Lord'

At the Doubletree in Scottsdale AZ

            Confirmed Speakers (subject to change)

We are in need of vendors for the event.  Contact Helen for more information at:

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Speakers:

Fr. Jozo Grbes, OFM - Was born in Rama, Bosnia-Herzegovina on March 17, 1966.  As a child, his family moved to Pozega, Slavonia, where he completed his first 12 years of schooling.  He joined the Franciscan Order in 1986 in Humac.  Fr. Grbes studied philosophy and theology at colleges in Sarajevo, Canterbury and London, England where he graduated in 1992.  He arrived in the United States on October 2, 1992 and was ordained a priest on February 7, 1993 at SS. Cyril & Methodius Parish in New York. He continued his pastoral studies in the same parish after his ordination while taking post-graduate courses at St. John's University where he received a Master's degree in theology.  In 1996 he was transferred to St. Jerome's in Chicago as assistant pastor where he is this day.  He became pastor in 2001.  He is continuing his post-graduate work in pastoral theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

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