Robert J. Sweiss This is Me

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1. 1. Sunday School

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   Published on: 6/16/2008   Last Visited: 6/16/2008

   Robert J. Sweiss is the Sunday School Director of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church.Robert was appointed by Father Nicholas Dahdal in 2000.
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   Robert has been on the parish council since 1998 and helped established the Jerusalem Bookstore in 2002 in which he serves as the Bookstore Director.He is involved in the church choir and loves Byzantine chanting.He is often proud to say that he graduated three of his Sunday school teachers to the St. Vladimir Seminary and into the priesthood.Well, one of them will soon be a priest.
   
   Robert was baptized into the Orthodox faith in Fuheis, Jordan on April 21, 1974 at age four under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.One of the two priests, Fr. Boulos Sweiss, was his relative who aided in his baptism along with Robert's four other siblings: Steve, Cathy, John and Joseph.
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   Robert was born as the eldest to Jamal & Jeanette Sweiss in the city of Yonkers , New York on May 20, 1969 . Unfortunately, Robert was not raised Orthodox and barely knew anything of Orthodoxy until his encounter with Fr. Nicholas Dahdal in the late eighties.
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   Robert was born as the eldest to Jamal & Jeanette Sweiss in the city of Yonkers , New York on May 20, 1969 . Unfortunately, Robert was not raised Orthodox and barely knew anything of Orthodoxy until his encounter with Fr. Nicholas Dahdal in the late eighties.
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   Robert encountered Orthodoxy in his college studies of Islamic Studies and readings.He graduated with a bachelor of art degree in history and a certificate in Middle East Studies that required two years of classical Arabic language.In 1994, Robert had the privilege of meeting Fr. Peter Gillquist and other former evangelical converts to Orthodoxy in Washington D.C. at the symposium entitled, "The Celebration of Middle Eastern Christianity."
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   In 1995, Robert began to regularly attend St. George and eventually never regretted it since then.He attends most pan-Orthodox events and gatherings.Also, he involves himself with Fr. Nicholas with the non-Orthodox Antiochian churches known as the Antiochian Apostolic Christian Churches of Chicagoland and The Council of Arab Religious Leaders of Chicagoland (ARC) that periodically meets and discusses issues of commonalities between Arab Christians & Arab Muslims.He currently serves as the secretary of the Fuheis American Association whose members have roots to the only predominated Arab Christian city of Fuheis in Jordan . On November 11, 2006, Robert helped coordinate the first filmed and DVD-recorded Arab Christian symposium in Chicago entitled, "Arab Christianity before the Rise of Islam," by one of the world's oldest & leading authorities on Islamic and Arab Christian Studies: Oman Professor Irfan Shahid of Georgetown University (an Antiochian Orthodox Christian).
   
   On February 19, 2000 , Robert married his wife Ann Kelly at St. George.
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   They have a beautiful daughter, Courtney Ann, who was born on February 14, 2003 on Valentine's Day at 2:14PM and baptized by Fr. Nicholas on May 3, 2003 . Robert is a financial advisor and president of Asset Protection for Life LLC.

2. 2. www.ltc-cltc.com

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   Robert J. Sweiss

3. 3. Parish Council

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   Published on: 2/20/2006   Last Visited: 6/16/2008

   Robert Sweiss