Summer Orthodox Youth Camp "Rodnik"

During the week, students 6-11 classes worked, prayed and talked with interesting people.

During this time, the children met and talked with the rector of the St. Michael's Church in Kursk, priest Vladimir Gvozdilin, with the Chairman of the Council of the regional branch of the Russian Movement of Children and Youth "Movement of the First" of the Kursk Region Maxim Vladimirovich Shchedrin, Kursk director and teacher of stage skills, graduate of GITIS Pavel Nikolaevich Ponarin, with a deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma, Director of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. Kursk Alexander Petrovich Trubnikov. The guests not only talked about their activities, shared their personal experience, But they also answered the questions of high school students.

Every day the guys performed labor obedience: Weeded the garden, watered the cabbage, swept the stairs. And after obediences, they could actively relax at the stadium, participating in team sports games. During the days of the camp, the children visited the museum "Historical and Cultural Center "Korennaya Pustyn", where they were told about the history of the monastery and given a tour of the Root Hermitage, and also visited the historical and memorial museum "Command Post of the Central Front".

22 June, on the day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 4 In the morning, at the "Command Post of the Central Front", high school students took part in the All-Russian action "Candle of Memory".

During the Divine Liturgy in the cathedral church of the monastery, with the blessing of the abbot Abbot Seraphim, the choir of the gymnasium under the direction of Lyubov Vladimirovna Kosilova sang on the kliros.

On the day of the closing of the camp, the children met with the abbot of the monastery, Abbot Seraphim, who told about that, How he decided to become a monk, What he was fond of as a child, how he studied at the Kursk Orthodox Gymnasium in the 1990s, and also answered numerous questions.

The time spent in the Root Hermitage for Orthodox youth flew by unnoticed;, in an atmosphere of friendship, responsibility and joy, Leaving the brightest memories.