A Christian education mini-conference will be held at Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Portland, OR, on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The conference will begin at noon. Mtka. Valerie Zahirsky, co-chair of the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of ChristianEducation, will be the featured speaker. The theme of the mini-conference is “Helping Young People Develop an [...]
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His Grace Bishop BENJAMIN has asked the Diocese of the West to create a special charitable fund for families affected by the wildfires spreading throughout southern California. All parishes and institutions of the Diocese of the West are directed to take a special offering on each of the next two Sundays.
Father Alexander Federoff from our [...]
A letter from His Grace Bishop BENJAMIN:
I just got off the phone with Archpriest Alexander Federoff of St. John of Damascus Church in Poway. He and his family are safe but not able to return to their home so far. We do know Kon and Birdie Worth have lost their home and everything in it. [...]
The Very Rev. Boris Symeonoff, pastor emeritus of Saint Nicholas Church here, fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday, January 4, 2007. Father Boris was born in Kronstadt, Russia, on August 5, 1911. Eight years later, he fled with his family to Estonia, which was at that time an independent Baltic country. Subsequently, he left Estonia for France where, from 1931 to 1934, he studied at the University of Paris.
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being formed in [...]
As most of you already know, my travels have taken me throughout the Diocese of the West since my consecration a little over a year ago. And, I believe, I have visited almost every parish and institu- tion of the Diocese, with one or two exceptions, since my arrival from Alaska in January of 2004. [...]
