Albania Teaching Team interviewed on Ancient Faith Radio

The 2009 Albania Teaching Team was interviewed by Fr. Thomas Hopko while in Albania. You may hear the interview on Ancient Faith Radio, "Speaking the Truth in Love." Short-term Team Members ... McCullough, along with Long-term Missionary Pamela Barksdale, are featured in this 20-minute interview. Visit http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko and click on '4 U.S. Missionaries in Albania' to listen.

Albania Teaching Team interviewed on Ancient Faith Radio

The 2009 Albania Teaching Team was interviewed by Fr. Thomas Hopko while in Albania. You may hear the interview on Ancient Faith Radio, "Speaking the Truth in Love." Short-term Team Members ... McCullough, along with Long-term Missionary Pamela Barksdale, are featured in this 20-minute interview. Visit http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko and click on '4 U.S. Missionaries in Albania' to listen.

Things seen at Bigdale.

...darn good if not as mango-driven as I might have liked. Stopped in at The Afternoon, which is sort of a shop full of random cool stuff. Next time I have a couple hundred dollars and no better idea what to do with it, I want a Michael Hopko glass octopus . Also stopped at Le Gourmet Chef and bought maple pumpkin butter and key lime ginger mustard. No specific plans for what to do with them yet.

First Team of 2009 Departs for the Field

...Muslim, these camps are valuable outreach tools for the Church. Team Members will work with Mission Specialist Fr. Thomas Hopko and the Long-Term Missionary team already in Albania. Fr. Hopko will offer classes on teaching Spiritual Lessons, while Nathan Hoppe will do an orientation and coordinate the event. ...

First Team of 2009 Departs for the Field

...Muslim, these camps are valuable outreach tools for the Church. Team Members will work with Mission Specialist Fr. Thomas Hopko and the Long-Term Missionary team already in Albania. Fr. Hopko will offer classes on teaching Spiritual Lessons, while Nathan Hoppe will do an orientation and coordinate the event. ...

Hero-worshiping around the Throne/Altar

... and the death. Behind the altar table there is usually a seven-branched taper base which comes from the Old Testamental tradition of the Jewish temple. Generally verbalise, the Jerusalem temple is highly valued in the Orthodox Christian tradition of worship and church building as a `` paradigm '' of verity worship `` in spirit and truth '' of the Realm of God ( Jn 4: 23 Fr. Thomas Hopko

...reading "Speaking of Silence' a dialogue between Christians and Buddhists? Well Im really reading it now, Im about halfway through and it is amazing. Have you heard of Father Thomas Keating, Father Hopko or Brother David? They are the main representatives for the Christian Dialogues along with one member of the Quaker church as well as some of my buddhist teachers teachers..   They say in order...

December devotional

... to protect this time, as we do before Easter. We live between the two comings of Christ, writes Thomas Hopko in his book, The Winter Pascha, which is the Greek word for Easter, so essentially he is referring ... first coming, he came to be a sacrifice. His second coming will be to reign in glory. Father Hopko writes, Jesus is born to bring God’s kingdom; He dies to prove his kingship; He rises to ...