Posted on 03/13/2019 8:01:19 AM PDT by NRx
Several hundred people were received into the holy Orthodox Church by the Mystery of Baptism in India recently, including 47 Protestant pastors who have been telling their communities about the true faith.
A missionary team, consisting of Fr. Athanasius Kone of the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii, Papa Ephraim, formerly of St. Anthony’s Monastery in Arizona and currently of St. Nilus Skete in Alaska, Fr. George Maximov of Moscow, Sister Paraskevi of St. Nilus Skete, and Sister Ioanna and Anastasia from Moscow, spent about two weeks in India, preaching and teaching about holy Orthodoxy and baptizing 350 people into Christ.
About 1,000 people had expressed interest in being baptized, but various issues led to only several hundred being baptized during the trip. A detailed description of the entire trip came be found at Papa Ephraim’s Orthodox River blog.
Fr. George Maximov has also published a video about the trip, including footage of the Baptisms and Chrismations:
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Praise the living God! May His church grow and bring light to the darkness there.
Velly Much Awesome!
Hopefully not in the Ganges !
That is one dirty river
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