As of August 1, Fr. Michael Nasser is being assigned as Pastor of Holy Apostles Orthodox Mission.  His appointment by Metropolitan PHILIP and Bp MARK came after an enjoyable week long visit with Fr. Michael and his wife, Khouria Vickie, and their family.

Fr. Michael has been a priest for about 14 years, and has served most recently in Mexico as priest at the "Project Mexico" orphanage. 

Holy Apostles Mission joyously welcomes Fr. Michael and his family to our community, and anticipate many years of Christian service alongside the Nassers and under Fr. Michael's pastoral care!  Please visit us soon to meet our new pastor and to learn more about Orthodoxy, the faith of the Apostles and Fathers of the Church!

After extensive repair and cleaning (following the water damage from heavy rains), we have thankfully been able to move back into our original Mission home at 2052 Russellville Rd.  Look for the Blue sign at the end of the "Bogle Building."  Join us as we move forward with the mission of bringing Orthodoxy to our community!

 

"I look at the city in which I live, and see only turmoil.  I see men cheating one another, so that those who are most devious grow rich at the expense of those who are most honest.  I see men being unfaithful to their wives, consorting with prostitutes rather than sleeping in their marriage bed.  I see men planning all sorts of schemes to gain power, putting down all who oppose them.  I see empty churches, because people know that the teaching of goes against all they want to achieve.  I see the clergy and bishops devoting their attention only to the material assets of the churches, while ignoring the sick and the dying, the poor and the needy.  And I can hear no voices crying out against all this.  What hope can we find in such a black and terrifying picture?  Our hope must lie int he ultimate power of good over evil -- and the knowledge that the power can work in even the hardest of men.  If I stare long enough into the faces of the cheats and the adulterers, the power-mongers and the wealth-mongers, I can discern the faint traces of goodness and truth; I can find softness amid this hardness.  While I can still see these traces, I will not despair."