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    OCMC February 2023 Article

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    The Orthodox Mission Team of St. Louis works to nurture awareness in local churches of the need to evangelize, catechize, and support global missionary efforts and programs. They highlight the work of OCMC missionaries Fr. Thomas and Pres. Elizabeth Manuel who completed four years of service in Guatemala and Mexico, sharing in life with locals and beginning to understand their perspective. They also recognize Anastasia Barksdale who served 14 years in Albania empowering locals to continue spreading the Good News, as well as Fr. Christopher and Jennifer Moore who served in Mongolia and South Korea before returning home.

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    The Orthodox Mission Team of St. Louis works to nurture awareness in local churches of the need to evangelize, catechize, and support global missionary efforts and programs. They highlight the work of OCMC missionaries Fr. Thomas and Pres. Elizabeth Manuel who completed four years of service in Guatemala and Mexico, sharing in life with locals and beginning to understand their perspective. They also recognize Anastasia Barksdale who served 14 years in Albania empowering locals to continue spreading the Good News, as well as Fr. Christopher and Jennifer Moore who served in Mongolia and South Korea before returning home.

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    The Orthodox Mission Team of St. Louis works to nurture awareness in local churches of the need to evangelize, catechize, and support global missionary efforts and programs. They highlight the work of OCMC missionaries Fr. Thomas and Pres. Elizabeth Manuel who completed four years of service in Guatemala and Mexico, sharing in life with locals and beginning to understand their perspective. They also recognize Anastasia Barksdale who served 14 years in Albania empowering locals to continue spreading the Good News, as well as Fr. Christopher and Jennifer Moore who served in Mongolia and South Korea before returning home.

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    OCMC February 2023 Article

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    The Orthodox Mission Team of St. Louis works to nurture awareness in local churches of the need to evangelize, catechize, and support global missionary efforts and programs. They highlight the work of OCMC missionaries Fr. Thomas and Pres. Elizabeth Manuel who completed four years of service in Guatemala and Mexico, sharing in life with locals and beginning to understand their perspective. They also recognize Anastasia Barksdale who served 14 years in Albania empowering locals to continue spreading the Good News, as well as Fr. Christopher and Jennifer Moore who served in Mongolia and South Korea before returning home.

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    "The Orthodox Mission Team of St.

    Louis works to nurture


    an awareness within our local churches of the need to
    Mission Team evangelize, catechize, and support missionary efforts and
    St. Louis programs globally."

    Well done, good and faithful servant!


    OCMC Missionaries to Gualemala Fr. Thomas and Pres. Elizabeth
    Manuel have completed four years, working alongside a group of wonderful
    fellow missionaries from OCMC who support Vicar Fr. Evangelios. Their
    service in Guatemala and Mexico has taken them on adventures throughout
    the region, sharing in the joys and the difficulties of life alongside the locals.
    They have come to know the Mayan people whom they served and had the
    opportunity to begin to understand the world from their point of view. They
    have accomplished many things they never thought possible. They learned
    a foreign language after intense study (and endless mistakes); they can now
    teach entire classes in Spanish and Fr. Thomas now preaches in Spanish.
    They wish to thank all who have kept them in their prayers and have
    supported them in innumerable ways over the past four years. They are
    eternally grateful for all of your love and support. Their next chapter of
    service to the Church will be at Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church in Loudoun County, Virginia.

    After 14 years as an OCMC Missionary in Albania, Anastasia Pamela


    Barksdale has “passed the torch” to the next generation of missionaries, like
    Steve and Theophani Sarigianis in Albania, the Joneses in Fiji, and the
    McClanahans in Indonesia, and returned home.
    The goal of any missionary is to work alongside the local faithful so that they
    can be empowered to continue spreading the Good News in their land. This
    is exactly what she has done with her colleagues in Albania. While Anastasia
    has returned to the US, she will continue to help people learn how supporting
    OCMC helps fulfill the Great Commission to “make disciples of all nations”.•

    Christopher and Jennifer Moore served in Mongolia as lay missionaries


    during 2014-2015. After that experience, OCMC asked Christopher to
    consider a call to serve in the mission field as a priest. After graduating from
    seminary, Fr. Christopher and his family, as OCMC missionaries traveled to
    S. Korea, where they served at the St. Dionysios of Zakynthos Orthodox
    Church in Ulsan. Having weathered COVID restrictions overseas and
    welcoming their third son, they have completed their term, retired from the
    mission field and returned home. They appreciate all the support you have
    offered them throughout these years. Fr. Christopher has been assigned to
    the OCA Diocese of the Midwest at Holy Trinity Church in Parma, OH.
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    As always, please feel free to contact Rosie Hartley, 618-447-9688, if you have any questions, would like to
    be part of the Mission Team St. Louis, or if you would like to help our missionaries.
    Thank you for your continued support!

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