Volume 25 Issue 5
September/October 2016
Dear Parishioners,
A Bi-Monthly Publication of St. Andrew Orthodox Church
4700 Canyon Crest Drive, Riverside, California 92507
beautiful - and it will alter our experience of prayer
and worship tremendously since both shrines that we
have commissioned are on the east end of the church
and in our line of vision when we pray the Divine
Services. Besides this, those confessing their sins will
be able to do so before one of the most encouraging
and beautiful confessionals in the country - the Good
Shepherd Shrine with ten scenes of repentance and
forgiveness.
Blessings! It is hard to believe that this December 3rd
will be the 5 year anniversary of the Consecration of
our St. Andrew Church temple. How time has flown and so much has taken place in these five years. So
many churchings and baptisms, weddings, receptions
of converts, confessions, close to 3000 divine
services, Holy Week cycles, Paschal celebrations, and
major installations of icons, kivouklion, acoustics and
more.
Just as time has flown these last five years so it will
With tongue in cheek I told you all that "for the next fly for the next five and we will soon be talking about
ten years you are going to hate me, and then after that how glad we are that our church has been completed,
and how amazing it is to see what an impact the
you are going to love me."
church has had and is having on visitors and
What I meant by that is I intended, with God's help, to fellow Orthodox. Already what we have done has had
keep us focused on completing the adornment of the an impact on many other churches throughout the
church temple until it was finished in the traditional country who have been inspired one way or another
Byzantine style.
to build for the glory of God.
I have visited far too many churches over the years I am deeply thankful to God for you all, for a
that lost nerve and never finished the proper congregation committed to Holy Orthodoxy and to
iconography of the church. The results included huge building a worthy House of Prayer. May the Lord
blank spaces, and often conflicting iconography styles bless all those in whose memory icons have
in the same church since the original iconographer been commissioned, and all those of you who have
died while the church was taking its time completing already committed yourselves to this year's campaign
the task and when it was finally completed it was and those of you who are presently making your plans
completed by an entirely different iconographer or to participate.
two! Talk about ugly.
May it be to the glory and praise of the All-Holy
Well- we are at the 1/2 way point! That means I can Trinity.
expect a lot more love in the near future since we are
just about closer to finishing than we are closer to Fr Josiah
when we began.
Our campaign this year is going to be absolutely See next page for campaign progress information.
V. Rev. Josiah Trenham, Pastor
Church Phone (951) 369-0309 ● Fax (951) 369-6609
For information and schedule of services, go to www.Saintandrew.net
To submit articles contact Lucy Hanna, editor, at lucy.hanna@sbcglobal.net
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ST. ANDREW COMMUNITY NEWS…
Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Michael Antuzzi…!!!
Congratulations to Michael and BreeAnna (Krammes) who were united in
marriage on July 17, 2016 at St. Andrew Church. Following the beautiful
ceremony and at the request of the bride and groom, the attendees gathered
in front of the church in a group photo to commemorate this blessed
occasion. God grant Michael and Bree many years!
Look who just celebrated 50 years of marriage..!
Congratulations to Fr. Joseph and Kh. Esther (Robin) Corrigan
who celebrated 50 years of marriage on August 26. They
received a special blessing on this occasion on Sunday, August
21 at St. Andrew. May God continue to bless their marriage
and grant them many, many more happy years together.
Congratulations to the newly-engaged couple,
Michael Khoury and Ashley Hadweh. May
God grant them many years!
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Mr. John Renaud, a son of St. Andrew
Church, was promoted to the rank of Captain in
the U.S. Army on August 1st, to the glory of God,
on the feast of the Procession of the Holy and
Lifegiving Cross and the memory of the seven
Maccabean children. As mentioned in last
month's bugle, John is stationed at Fort Lee, VA
and is attending the Logistics Captains Career
Course. He sends his greetings to all and thanks
for prayers.
Celebrating the promotion!
John cutting the cake military style!
As mentioned in the July/August Bugle, had a
clean sweep at the Diocese of Los Angeles and
the West PLC when our Adult, Senior and
Junior Teams all won first place in the Bible
Bowl for their respective group. The Senior
Team then went on to compete with the winners
from the other 6 Dioceses of our Archdiocese at
the Antiochian Village.
Update: St. Andrew has accomplished another
sweep - this time nationally at the Antiochian
Village. Our Bible Bowl team WON - defeating
St. George Church, Houston, Texas - the team
that beat us last year by one point! This year our team almost got a perfect
score...There were 102 possible points- St. Andrew got 101! St. George 100!
Congratulations to our excellent Bible students: Anna Rahal, Mark Rahal and
Anna Jackson and to their coach, George Rahal!
Also mentioned in the previous Bugle, we had
another clean sweep at the PLC. This time in the
Oratorical contest when Basil Trenham won the
Senior Division and Cassian Trenham won the
Junior Division competitions. As the winner of the
senior division, Basil then went on to compete
against the winners of the
other 6 winners form the
other Dioceses.
Update: Basil competed
and WON.
For parishioners who
were not able to attend
the PLC,
our two
winners delivered their
orations at St. Andrew on two consecutive Sundays.
Basil delivered his oration Sunday July 31, and
Cassian delivered his on Sunday, August 7.
If you missed those Sundays, you can read the text for
Basil’s oration printed on page 6 of this newsletter.
Because of computer
issues, Cassian’s oration is not available in
print. To listen to him
delivering it personally, go to:
www.ancientfaith.co
m/podcasts/thearena/
the_igod_by_cassian_
trenham
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“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
By Basil Trenham
“Choose ye this day whom ye will serve; whether the
gods which your fathers served that were on the other
side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve
the Lord.”
So said the great prophet Joshua to the faltering Israelite
people. Joshua found Israel in a state of temptation and
idolatry when he said these profound words. Even though
God had done so much for the Israelite people, many of
them had turned to false gods in worship. What was it
that made the false gods of their time so enticing? What
was it that so overwhelmed the Israelites that they
abandoned the God who brought them out of Egypt and
into the land of the Canaanites? Let me propose two
substantial reasons for this. For one, the Israelites were a
minority in the society they lived in. The Israelites had
entered into the land of the Amorites and were now living
in the midst of pagans. If one looks at a map of Israel as it
was in the time of Joshua he will notice that Israel was
surrounded on all sides by pagans, the Hittites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Edomites, and the
Philistines. Not only was Israel surrounded by pagans,
but the Amorites actually were still living within the
borders of the promise land. As Orthodox in the U.S. do
we not find ourselves in a similar situation? We Orthodox
here in America are well acquainted with the feeling of
being a minority, and it sometimes feels like we are small
fish in an ocean of bewildering unbelief or false teaching.
As a minority, it is easy to be swayed by the mainstream,
and to desire to “be like everyone else.” It was the same
for the Israelites of Joshua’s time; they were a minority
and they were desirous of “being like everyone else.”
They faced decisions each day to either serve the Lord or
to conform to the pagans. The second reason why the
Israelites might have been attracted to the false gods of
the Amorites is that they were new to the land. Again, we
Orthodox can sympathize with the Israelites as we are
relatively new to the land of the U.S. As newcomers, it
takes great courage to stand up for one’s faith, and to live
it out in its fullness in society. I was recently at a Church
teen event, and I was speaking to a good friend of mine.
We were conversing about living out the Orthodox way at
school and in public places when mid-conversation my
friend in a spurt of frustration said, “Why is it so hard to
make the sign of the cross in front of non-orthodox
people? It takes me a lot of will power to do it before
eating lunch at school, because I fear what people think”
The issue that my friend raised, that is the issue of caring
what others think when surrounded by unbelief, is an
issue that I believe every young person must face and is
an issue that takes on many
forms. I have a college friend
who was recently relaying a
story to me about her first day
of college classes. This friend
told me that on the first day of
her ethnic studies class at
UCR,
the
professor
intolerantly spoke up saying that if anyone in the class
was a Christian or a non-liberal, that they should leave his
class immediately. Thanks be to God, my friend is strong
in her faith, and resisted the teacher’s call to
“conformity” and held her own in the class and by
working hard and gaining the respect of the professor,
earned an A. Whether we are in a college class with a
radical neo-Marxist professor who proclaims on the first
day of class that anyone who holds conservative views
should drop the class, or if we simply are faced with the
decision to make our cross before eating at a restaurant,
my peers and I are forced to “choose today whom we will
serve,” whether that be to “conform” to our society,
which is more decrepit, vulgar, villainous, and insane
than the pagan societies of old, or to serve the Lord with
boldness and courage. Brothers and sisters in Christ we
are losing on this front. According to the LifeWay
Research and Ministry Development, in a study done in
2007, an average of 70% of teenagers are falling away
from the faith within the first two years of college. That is
more than 2/3 of our young people leaving the faith, with
a return rate later on in life of only 35%, which still
leaves half of them faithless. Now one wonders who is
teaching us young people in these universities, and
drawing us away from the faith of our fathers? The facts
are not surprising. According to a study done by Harvard
sociologist Neil Gross, as much as 61% of college
professors self-identify as agnostic or atheist, with the
percentages varying according to the major. No wonder
the Church is losing so many young people! We are being
taught and indoctrinated by men and women who are anti
-God and are pushing a relativistic/nihilistic agenda. I am
sure that you all are familiar with the presumptive
nominee for the Republican Party Donald Trump, as well
as the uniquely simple yet honest way in which he
speaks. In no way would I like to comment on Mr.
Trump’s agenda or political views, but I would like to
mention something which he has reiterated time and time
again and then give you an Orthodox application of his
sayings. In a speech given while on the campaign trail in
Boca Raton, Florida, Mr. Trump said, “Think about it:
When was the last time the United States won at
everything? We’re losing at war, we’re losing at trade,
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we’re losing at everything… We’re going to start winning
again through much reform and we are going to make
America great again” (Breitbart.com). If an aware
Orthodox Christian was commenting in a Trump-like
manner on the state of my generation as we enter college,
this is how I think he would rephrase Donald Trump’s
previous statement, “Think about it: When was the last
time that the Orthodox youth were thriving in everything?
Our youth are losing their faith and being swayed by
atheistic professors, they are losing their Godly
commitment to the Church by falling into false idle
worship, and they are losing they’re solid rock foundation
that is the values that they have grown up with, they are
losing at everything” And then as an encouraging
response I think he would say, “Our young people are
going to start winning again by choosing to serve the Lord
today, and making their faith a faith of the present rather
than the past. We are going to make our young people
great again.” Brothers and sisters it is clear that my
generation is trapped in a whirlwind of false ideology and
I believe that by far the greatest false god that has
presented itself to my peers and I, especially through the
medium of the university, is the god of relativism. Just as
the ancient Israelites were enticed by the false gods of
their time, so we young people have been enchanted with
the false god of relativism. This god demands that there
be no objective truth, and that to say that there is objective
truth and values that are truly transcendent, is not only
utterly false, but is actually a pronouncement of outright
judgment, bigotry, and hate towards others who might
disagree. The god of relativism has set up throne rooms in
more than 60% of the classes offered at universities
throughout the U.S. The college age student is taught that
what is true for him might not be true for someone else,
and has the meaningless saying “to each his own”
persistently thrown at him until he is convinced that there
is no right way to live or wrong way to act. The central
problem with this claim that there is no ultimate truth, is
that that exact statement sets itself up as THE ultimate
truth. How do you know that nothing is true, if there is no
objective reality and truth? In other words, the only
objective truth that the relativists believe in is this idea
that there is no objective truth. This claim clearly has an
inherent contradiction, and we young people need not
listen to this false god, as it is propped up by faulty
thinking at its root. To my great joy, the pedagogical
family for the theme of this PLC is the family of St. Basil
the Great, who I am honored to call my patron. St. Basil
and his family struggled very hard with this exact
problem, that is the problem of being both surrounded and
taught by non-Christians, and yet choosing to serve the
Lord and not losing one’s faith through the process of
education. St. Basil the Great along with his brother St.
Gregory of Nyssa were both educated at the top pagan
schools of there time. In his work, the life of Moses, St.
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Gregory of Nyssa said that being educated in the top
pagan schools was like a second “plundering of the
Egyptians.” You will remember that when the Jews were
leaving Egypt under Moses’s leadership, God commanded
Moses to have the Israelites go door to door and ask for
the gold and silver and precious materials of the Egyptian
peoples. This has been referred to by multiple Church
fathers as the “plundering of the Egyptians.” What St.
Gregory meant when describing his educational
experience in the prestigious pagan schools of his time as
a second “plundering of the Egyptians” was that God was
providing him and his brother St. Basil the opportunity to
learn all of the different subjects and disciplines being
taught at these schools, and thus in a way the opportunity
to “plunder the Egyptians” a second time and to take the
gems and diamonds of knowledge that the pagan culture
and learning had to offer and then use it for the Church.
Just as the Jews stole the diadems of the Egyptians and
used it to build the house of God, so too St. Basil the
Great and his family stole the pearls of knowledge from
the educated pagans and used that knowledge to support
and build the Church of Christ. According to the
Synaxarion which gives a beautiful account of St. Basil
the Great’s life, St. Basil through the extensive education
he received in non-Christian schools, became widely
known as the smartest man alive. In his life it actually
describes him as having such a breadth of knowledge that
he had mastered all the subjects including math, science,
English, history, languages, rhetoric and so on. Instead of
being completely torn down by entering into a secular
school as we have seen the Orthodox youth experience,
St. Basil was strengthened in his faith, by being
intentional with his education, always remembering why
he was learning anything in the first place, and then
remembering his first commitment which was to serve the
Lord. Even more, St. Basil had siblings which would not
let him choose anything other than serving the Lord.
Indeed the account of his life describes a beautiful
description of his interaction with his sister St. Macrina,
where after becoming learned in so many fields, St. Basil
was tempted to choose a secular vocation, but by the
loving yet firm words of his sister, decided to choose a
life of service to God as a monk in the desert. I cannot
stress the importance of sibling interaction more here.
Coming from a family of ten children, I have constantly
depended upon my siblings to keep me in line, and to
remind me why I am living and learning. Even St. Basil
needed his siblings to stay focused in a secular school and
to come out stronger. Through the life of St. Basil
and his family, it is made clear that while one is in the
midst of disgusting secular culture as we find ourselves
today, we as youth can enter into it and the education it
offers and yet as in the days of the ancient Israelites,
plunder the Egyptians for God’s glory, Amen.
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Encounters in Guatemala
By Deacon Thomas Hernandez
The
most
astonishing
conversion of peoples to the
Orthodox Church in recent
history has taken place in the
central highlands and coastal
lowlands of the mesoAmerican
country
of
Guatemala.
parish in order to see more of our own parishioners - at
every stage of life, yes, it can be you! - participate in
missions.
Second, my own ethnic background is of LatinAmerican descent, and therefore, a great part of me
wanted to embrace that aspect of my life, which, for the
most part, has been estranged. It was also closer which
meant cheaper. Guatemala seemed a natural fit.
Truly it is an event of apostolic proportion. It is also an Third, I had periodically been following the details of
event which our parish, St Andrew Orthodox Church, OCMC missionary to Guatemala, Jesse Brandow, on the
has been joined.
internet and was “in-the-know” of the general
Last December I sent my application for the Guatemalan progression of how God was using Jesse to minister to
mission.
the Guatemalan people. Jesse does a good job of keeping
When I was in college I decided to make missions a part people in the United States up to date on Orthodoxy in
of my life. I was not quite sure exactly what “missions as Guatemala via social media.
part of my life” would look like and, to be sure, I still Our Team and Mission
maintain that uncertainty. While in seminary, I went to
Finland to assist one of my professors from college. He
wanted me to teach Christology to youth at a camp just
outside the university town of Jyväskyla. I was seriously
considered joining the International Mission Board to
become a missionary to Finland.
God had different plans. We became Orthodox
Christians.
Since becoming Orthodox, though, an international
missions opportunity had not yet presented itself to me. I
had studied generally about Orthodox missions. I read
the few Orthodox books that exist on the topic, and put
together a brief, introductory catechetical class for our
catechumens. Here at Saint Andrew, we commit to pray
for Orthodox missions each Lent. In the past I have tried
- scantily, at best - to promote and see missions engaged
on a more populous level here in Riverside.
The team I was on consisted of seven people: Fr Thomas
Langdon, his wife, Matushka Sarah, Roberta, Panagiota,
Victoria, Marta, and myself. Each of the other team
members offered timely and consistent gifts. I, on the
other hand, perceived myself to be rather useless most of
the time. I was relieved at the uniqueness of each
member because I did not feel like I had any idea what I
When I got the email transmitted by OCMC detailing the was doing. Jesse organized the team and was the central
teams that were being assembled for 2016 it did not take figure to everything we sought accomplish.
much thought for me to seek a blessing to apply. I saw
the Guatemala Youth mission team slot and knew that Our primary objective was youth education. We would
was the one. In what follows I will try to be as concise as hold a week long youth program at two different villages
possible. Forgive me if I sacrifice content and clarity for to the west of Nueva Concepcion: Conrado de la Cruz
and Willy Woods. The education program consisted of
brevity.
teaching sacred music, training acolytes, playing games,
Why Guatemala?
arts and crafts, and teaching short, iconographic-based
First, it really could have been any place - Africa, lessons. Iconography, we realized, was an important
Indonesia, Alaska, Albania. I must confess one of the medium from which to base all of our instruction. It
main motivations I had of going on any trip is that I visualized the lesson for them, which helped offset some
wanted to increase the visibility of missions in our own of the language barrier, while at the same time allowed
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us to personalize our instruction for each individual I wish to share three events from my trip to Guatemala
community by means of their patronal saint.
that have had a weighty effect on my experience as an
In addition to the youth program, we were there to spend Orthodox Christian. There are many different encounters
time with the people and the clergy. I did not realize it, I could share but these are a few that I found particularly
and perhaps I will not know the full extent of the effect heartfelt.
our group had on the people, but our presence was a huge
encouragement and aid to strengthen their faith. For
many, if not most (or all) of the people, they became
Orthodox because their leader, Padre Andres Giron God rest his soul - led them into the Orthodox Church.
Today, Padre Andres is known as the father of
Guatemalan Orthodoxy. The mere fact that there were
other Orthodox in the world, and more importantly, that
those Orthodox travelled to come and be with them was a
beautiful interaction and witness to the people of the
veracity of the Faith and a demonstration of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ.
Padre Andres
The Orphans at the Seminary
We stayed at a plantation in Nueva Concepcion that
functioned as both a school and a seminary. It is a very
prayerful and quiet place; similar to a monastery. The
cook, Simone, well, she was amazing! She fed us a
variety of unique chile’s and fresh tortillas with every
meal.
More importantly, the seminary had a lovely chapel.
Perpendicular to the chapel was the tomb of Padre
Andres.
At the seminary, there were a handful of orphans, all of
them teenage boys, who lived in the dormitory. We
stayed in the house with Archimandrite Mihael. Padre
Mihael was the spiritual son of Padre Andres, and upon
further research I obtained when I got back, was
seriously wounded as a teenager in the assassination
attempt on Padre Andres.
The short story of the conversion of thousands in
Guatemala struck me as curious and alluring. As I
thought more about the conversion of the people and was
able to interact with and analyze some of the realities of
such a profound and mass conversion, I began to see
patterns of congruence with other large-scale Padre Mihael takes care of the boys at the orphanage.
The boys pray Vespers and Orthros together, have work
conversions, such as the people of the Rus.
they do around the seminary, and go to school. One of
In a country shattered by civil war and genocide, Padre the boys, Elmer, was learning Greek, reading St John
Andres, at the time a Roman Catholic priest, gathered the Chrysostom, and making prayer ropes. Simply put, our
support of the “campesinos,” those who worked in the time with the boys was special. Every day before we left
fields, in the 1980s. He led thousands on a multi-day for the villages they greeted us. They were waiting for us
march into Guatemala City in protest and sought to win when we returned. They served us all of our meals. I
land for the people. Indeed, in a 1987 article, the New especially enjoyed playing football (not American
York Times reported that Padre Andres was being called, football) with the boys. Running around in the humidity
“Father Revolutionary.” Padre Andres escaped was suffocating, but it was a great bonding experience.
assassination at the hands of the government. In addition, Who knows, maybe God will use some of the boys to
the march to the city worked and he won land for the lead His people in Guatemala.
people. He fell out of sorts with the Roman Catholic
Church in Guatemala for his political activeness and in St Andrew Orthodox Church in Willy Woods
2010 was received into the Orthodox Church, along with
tens of thousands of people, under the Patriarchate of
Constantinople.
The impact that Padre Andres had on the people was
eternal. His loving, charismatic leadership has led to their
reception into Christ’s Church; it was loudly evident that
the people loved Padre Andres dearly, even if they did
not completely understand everything that happened. I
remember watching one of the village ladies talk about
how their church was receiving bitter words from a local
Roman Catholic priest, who was trying to get them to
return to the Papal church, and yet, she cited her love for
Padre Andres and her experience of the Orthodox life as For obvious reasons, I immediately felt an affinity for
San Andreas Iglesia de Ortodoxa in Willy Woods. The
reasons why she would remain Orthodox.
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children at Willy Woods were a little bit young,
energetic, and very happy! They were eager and willing
to learn about Orthodoxy and their patron saint. Our team
taught them how to sing the Apolytikion for St Andrew
in Spanish. We taught them about St Andrew and
explained the icon of St Andrew to them. We taught
them how to cross themselves and venerate the icons
properly. One afternoon, a violent thunderstorm rolled
through the village and we bonded in the midst of a
torrential downpour and voracious thunder and lightning.
At the end of the week we were able to celebrate the
Liturgy together. Throughout the span of our time in
Guatemala we were able to celebrate the Liturgy with
five different communities and each time there was a
remarkable feeling of unity and solidarity as we
participated in the Body and Blood of Christ. Presently,
every time I am humbly able to perform the great censing
here in Riverside, either in Vespers or Orthros, I think
about this beautiful community as I cense our icon of St
Andrew.
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As Padre Blas introduced us to Pedro what struck me was
Pedro’s joy and gratitude. For each person's name he had
a lively comment to offer about how it related to
someone in the Scriptures or in the Church. He said he
was so honored to have missionaries come into his
humble home and visit him. Some of the girls in our
group began to weep. Pedro then began to explain to
Padre Blas some of his ailments. Unbearable abdominal
pain, the loss of his ability to walk. He asked why it was
that God had not yet taken him and told us a story of a
vision he had of the Virgin Mary, who came and
comforted him. Father Thomas, the priest in our group,
providentially happened to have some holy oil from St
John Maximovich. Padre Blas then sang an angelic
hymn. After the hymn and a prayer, Father Thomas
anointed him with oil. Afterwards, we left him with our
love and assurance of prayer. We also gave him an icon
of the Theotokos and a prayer rope. Padre Blas gave him
a simple explanation on how to pray the Jesus prayer and
then we left.
As we walked back to the church Padre Blas explained to
us that Pedro had some form of cancer.
I still think about Pedro and wonder if his time on earth
has finished. God give him strength and life in the
Kingdom.
In conclusion, it is my prayer that God will not let me
forget the people of Guatemala. The collective
experience of our group was mutual: we had traveled to
Guatemala with the expectation to teach our brothers and
sisters about the Orthodox faith, yet they were the ones
who taught us guided us to see the richness and the glory
of God’s Kingdom.
Pedro’s House
On our last day with the community of San Andreas we
met Pedro (Peter). Padre Blas, the parish priest of San
Andreas, said we needed to go visit Pedro: he was dying.
We walked to his house which was about 300 meters
from the Church, down the main dirt road, and entered a
dark but nice home for the area. It was spacious and had
a tin roof but what made it nice was the cement floor and
walls made of cinder block. There was not much
furniture. Pedro, visibly in a lot of pain, humbly and
warmly welcomed us. He was lying on a very old folding
beach chair, laced together with plastic; it was yellow
and white. It reminded me of one my parents had in the
80s. Inside the house it was hot and humid. With no air
flow it was not long before we were all dripping with
sweat. This is not how my pre-conditioned mind
envisioned the process of death. Yet here we all were.
Please
remember
the
people in your prayers.
Remember the clergy in
your prayers. They have an
unimaginable task set
before them. Remember
Jesse,
the
long-term
missionary to the people of
Guatemala. He has left his
friends and family to give
this part of his life to the
people
of
Guatemala.
Remember, also, that God
wants all of us to play our part in His mission to spread
the glory of His Kingdom throughout the world. Pray that
God would lead the people of St Andrew Orthodox
Church in Riverside, California to give of themselves and
participate in any way to God’s mission to advance His
Kingdom here on earth.
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13th Annual
Save The Date
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Following Great Vespers
Plans are underway, so
stay tuned for more information
The 2016 Fall Gathering
October 7 – 9, 2016
Hosted by St. Simeon Orthodox Mission
28200 Bouquet Canyon Road, Suite A,
Santa Clarita, CA 91350
For event information, registration, schedule
and discounted hotel information go to:
http://www.scvorthodox.com/fall-gathering
Our new St. Andrew 2016
Cookbook will be available
mid-October.
To ensure
availability
and to
Order your copy
TODAY
reserve your copy,
see Jerry Klocek in the
Fellowship Hall on Sundays
after liturgy. The price is $20
per book. Full payment is due at the time of
ordering. We accept cash, check, and credit
cards. Please make checks payable to “St.
Andrew Myrrhbearers” and write “Cookbook”
on the memo line.
St. Andrew Orthodox Church
4700 Canyon Crest Drive
Riverside, CA 92507
St. Andrew Orthodox Church of Riverside is a parish of the Self-ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America,
Diocese of Los Angeles and the West, the See of the Most Reverend Metropolitan JOSEPH