Yesterday we said goodbye to three young Americans who had spent three weeks in the Orthodox Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria. They had come as a short-term mission team from the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) in St Augustine, Florida, at the invitation and with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of ( Read more... )

We are expecting a mission team from the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) in our Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria in June. I'm looking forward to it - this is the first time such a team will have come to South Africa. I don't know who the members of the team are yet, but I gather two of them are from St Vladimir's Seminary in ( Read more... )