Fr Benjamin Naasko Sends Report

  September 10, 2026, Fr. Bejamin sends report to Share the Faith Ministries. He writes, “Ss Sergius and Herman of Valaam Houghton, MI School is back in session at Michigan Tech, and the returning students and faculty have made Sundays more exciting again. Our choir is fuller and the Sunday coffee hour boisterous and crowded.[…]

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Third Installment: Share the Faith Mission Priest, Fr. Jesse Rimshas: Homily on the Afterfeast of the Dormition

  September 2, 2026, for the August installment of Journals from St. Jacob’s, Share the Faith Recipient Priest, Fr. Jesse Rimshas of St. Jacob of Alaska Mission in Marquette, Michigan gives us a word on the Afterfeast of the Dormition. May it be blessed! And may God grant Fr. Jesse and St. Jacob’s many years![…]

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Father Theodore at St. Elizabeth the New Martyr Mission Reports that Orthodoxy in Alabama Continues to Grow

  Sept 4, 2026, Update by recipient Priest, Father Theodore Foley from St. Elizabeth the New Martyr Mission in Cullman, AL. Father Theodore reports, “As of late we have been very busy. We finished adorning the trapeza area with nice, proper Orthodox icons and we completed the overflow trapeza room since we are steadily growing.[…]

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How a Freak-of-Nature Wanders

  September 1, 2026, born and raised in Ohio, I spent most of my youth in the confines of suburban Central Ohio where I existed within a fifty-mile radius for the first twenty-five years of my life; sheltered in a loud, prying, yet supportive, tribal Macedonian – Balkan community with a relatively nominal Orthodox Christian[…]

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Things Are Happening for Recipient Priest Fr. Dmitri Mihaliov at St. Ambrose Mission in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

September 3, 2026, wonderful things are happening for the tiny, tourist trap Orthodox Mission dedicated to St. Ambrose of Milan. Where Father Ambrose normally has about fifteen to twenty attending Divine Liturgy on a Sunday, he reports the addition of two new catechumens along with three inquirers. Adding, “we have been able to provide the[…]

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