Our parish had a ELCA family of four start coming about 8 months ago. They have been chrismated and are now very active members of our Orthodox parish and a blessing to us. The wife’s brother is an ELCA priest out on the West Coast somewhere. I guess her family has basically written her and her children out of the book of life! Shame to cut off one’s own in order to embrace homosexuality as an acceptable life style among Christians!
Good, Kolo!
If you want to go back to 2009, there is a former Missouri Synod pastor and his former ELCA wife who had been chrismated in 2008 (after I was), together with their three young children, in a Greek parish in a distant state. They moved to our area and joined our OCA parish. Then in 2010 they had a fourth child who was baptized in June. We also had three other baptisms this year.
The new man who was received as a catechumen last Sunday had recently married an Orthodox lass, who joined our parish.
That’s just our OCA parish. Our large Serbian parish keeps growing by leaps and bounds, mainly via adding Serbian immigrants. There are quite a few Chrismations of non-ethnic Serbs elsewhere in our Serbian diocese, but not in our mainly immigrant parish.
Meanwhile, the members of my former ELCA parish mainly complacently continue to drink the “progressive” Kool-Aid, not realizing the disaster that has engulfed them. I continue to pray for them, and will show up there for a memorial service next week (before our SerbFest).
Have a joyous feast tomorrow, Kolo!
Good to hear! I hope that they have all the blessings of Christ!
I rode a similar road myself. Best decision I ever made.