Thoughts and talks with Joel on the Mission – and the Mission of the Church: Part II
…If you view the Church as a crop that has to be planted, cultivated, protected and harvested, as well as providing the seeds for other crops, you’ll also hold to the interpretation of the Apostle Paul’s metaphor of 1 Cor. 3:6 “one planting and one watering but God giving the increase;” that the Church is…
Read MoreThoughts and talks with Joel on the Mission – and the mission of the Church: Part I
We bid Joel and Tessi and the girls (and Liam) good-bye yesterday morning. Sure hard to see them go. Joel and I (as I have mentioned before) formed a real partnership in the mission and his input and participation and enthusiasm has been invaluable to me. We’ve had this ongoing discussion of what missions really…
Read MoreFirst Divine Liturgy Served in Weatherford / Clinton Area
As wonderful as the daily Readers Matins and Vespers services have been, there’s nothing like serving with a priest – just as there’s no other service like the Divine Liturgy. The Tuesday evening Vespers service with Fr. Michael was very blessed but today’s Liturgy was even more so.The Liturgy is always grace-filled of course, but…
Read MoreHistoric First Divine Liturgy To Be Served at St. Basil’s Mission on July 13
Yesterday morning we received an encouraging email from Preist Michael Storozuk, rector of St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church in Denison, TX. He informed us that after hearing our story and seeing our website, he felt convicted to come and serve the Divine Liturgy here at St. Basil’s in Weatherford. We’re honored, blessed and very…
Read MoreChristianity Today Interviews Orthodox Hierarch, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, published an interview today with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Great Britain. Metropolitan Kallistos answered several difficult questions about the state of Orthodoxy in the West, the Orthodox approach to evangelism, as well as her involvement in “social justice.” Here is one of the questions: Q: In open countries where Orthodoxy has…
Read MoreMission Journal – Entry 2
Today after Matins we went to coffee at what is becoming our regular place. If you’ve ever been to a downtown Portland, OR or Soho coffee shop you’ll be able to visualize the place…I had seen the owner twice before when we were there but hadn’t introduced myself – preferring instead to wait until he’s…
Read MoreRead Our Interview on “Byzantine, Texas”
Intrigued by the unique efforts of Saint Basil the Great Orthodox Mission, Joseph, author of Orthodox Christian blog “Byzantine, Texas,” recently asked us several questions about this mission. He was kind enough to post the interview to his blog which you can read here. Here is one of the questions: What are the current and…
Read MoreMission Journal – Entry 1
We did Matins today and R showed up again. We had a wonderful Prologue reading that allowed a great discussion – at least I thought so. After we had a cup of coffee (again, in our cassocks) we stopped by R’s business to drop off a few items he loaned the mission and ask him…
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