Former Priests of Our Parish
The parish was recently given some old photos from the first few years of our parish, most of them before we were given St. Jacob of Alaska as our patron, and when it was simply called the Orthodox Mission of Bend Oregon. One of those sets of photos were from the funeral of one of […]
What Is the Difference between Missions and Evangelism?
What do all these words mean? That will greatly help us understand the commission given to Christians to “go and make disciples…teaching them to observe”. And particularly, we need to look at the difference between missions and evangelism. Missions. Think of the word missive, as in ‘to send out a missive’. It is ‘to send’, […]