Pictures from the Episcopal celebration of St. Barbara’s Monastery Feast Day, December 4th, 2008

Pictures of Holy Week and Pascha at St. Christina’s Orthodox Mission in Fremont, CA

Transfiguration of Christ Cathedral, Denver Colorado, Pascha 2008

December 2007 – January 2008

Orthodox Bay Area Youth Retreat & Service Project
“The Psalm 104 Project” – October 26-27, 2007

St. Anthony the Great Mission
Parish Retreat, Summer 2007
Bozeman, Montana.
Guest Speaker: Fr. Andrew Morbey (St. Mary’s Cathedral, Minneapolis)

First annual youth BBQ held on June 2, 2007 at Quarry Lakes Regional Park in Fremont, California. There were 26 kids from 6 parishes in the Bay Area.

As executive director of Raphael House, a homeless shelter for families and their children, Father David Lowell is involved in running every aspect of the program, from fundraising and administration to washing dishes, mopping floors and vacuuming carpets. Lowell, an Eastern Orthodox priest who has been with Raphael House for 21 years, believes in leading from the bottom up.

Annual Celebration, July 4, 2005 ~ Historic Fort Ross houses one of the oldest Orthodox chapels in the country. Originally built as a trading post for the Russian American Company in the 1830s, a small chapel was built in the fort to service the Orthodox in the region. St. Innocent, the first bishop in America served there in 1836 while on a trip to California