For over 45 years, Patt and I have traveled with Educational Opportunities Christian Tours and I served as National Director of EO Catholic Tours for several pre-pandemic years. We continue as EO Director of Travel Ministry registering clergy and others to host EO and ECO Catholic pilgrimages and other travel.
This section of my website features travel programs that we are currently offering. We would love to have you travel with us. Click the brochure below for more information on the next trip. If you register online, please list "Deacon Ray Defendorf" as your Tour Host. My Tour Host ID# is 03625.
Watch this space for our next travel opportunity.
Gentle Spirit, rest in my smile, be in my touch as gentle as You. Gentle Spirit. Powerful God Let your love shine through me. Let your love shine through me.
Joining preschoolers in a Thanksgiving song.
MUSIC AND LYRICS
During fourteen years as founder and director of Celebrate Life, a music ministry for teens, Deacon Ray first composed, performed and recorded many of his original prayer-songs.
Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
Matthew 6:33
Champions for the poor:
Help Me Build a home in Bon patay
BUILT
more than 107,000 housing units to shelter the poor
EDUCATED
children in developing countries by building 368 schools
PLANTED
more than 2 million fruit trees to provide nutrition to the poor
SHIPPED
more than 75,000 containers of life-saving aid supplies
PROTECTED
the poor from deadly disease with more than 2,286 drinking water systems
