See Our Last Mission to Spruce Island!
Building the Bell Tower at Spruce Island was one of the most spiritual and blessed experiences of our lives; here is our YouTube movie of the event!
Kenny and Leah
Our Alaska Mission TripOrganized by Sts. Constantine & Helen Orthodox Church |
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The Mission Trip Were Taking is All About Need!
This Church on the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska is identified with two of the five Orthodox Saints of North America: St. Tikhon (Bellavin) and St. Iakov (Netsvetov). The first Orthodox priest to serve the Yup'ik of the Yukon-Kuskokwim region was the Aleut Iakov Netsvetov. He built the first house of worship, the Chapel of the Transfiguration, at Chuathbaluk in the 1850's. The present Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh was dedicated in 1905. Bishop Tikhon, head of the Diocese of Aleutian islands and North America and later Patriarch of Russia, visited in 1900 while the Church was under construction. At Chuathbaluk, he performed the first liturgy by a bishop in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. The Church is on the National Register of Historic Places.
read more at: http://www.rossialaska.org/xhtm/projects.html |
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