Clergy and members of parishes that are beginning to decline will tend to notice something happening.  At first, what begins to happen is very subtle, hardly noticed.  It comes up during warm conversation, perhaps during coffee hour, and may even be, at the beginning of this period, something that is undertaken with joy and laughter[…]

Hello! My name is Noah. I am one of the parish members who attends liturgy and services at St. Tikhon Orthodox Church. I can help share our mission testimony. Prior to becoming Orthodox, or even knowing what Eastern Orthodoxy was, I found myself in a confusing state. I was raised in a very warm and[…]

https://www.oca.org/reflections/misc-authors/the-silver-bullet-of-evangelism by Father John Parker In a single sentence, it could be said that evangelization is everyone’s business, since it is every baptized Christian’s vocation to bear witness to what he or she has seen and heard, to speak of all the good that God has done in his or her life, to share the[…]

My dad grew up logging but he has always been fruitful in God’s Kingdom even now in his retirement including in the lives of his children. My mom wanted to be an international missionary, and although that didn’t happen she became a school teacher and ministered in the states in the public school system. My[…]