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!
“Our large Serbian parish keeps growing by leaps and bounds, mainly via adding Serbian immigrants.”
We have a substantial immigrant Serbian Church about 60 miles south of us. The children of that parish will be coming up this weekend to folk dance with our Greek children at our annual festival. The Serbs are GREAT folks!
“Have a joyous feast tomorrow, Kolo!”
Thanks and to you too! For those who wonder what HS is speaking of:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2584942/posts