Orthodox Church Blue Ridge

03/29/2023

12/30/2022

Children:

Bring them to church. Saturate their lives with the Word of God. Even if they lay on the floor. Even if they need 437 goldfish and a sucker to be quiet. Even if you stand in the back swaying back and forth holding them. Even when it’s hard. Even when when your row looks like a small hurricane just came through. Bring them to church. Let them see you worship. Let them see you pray. Let them see you running toward the Savior ... because if they don’t see and learn these things from you, who are they going to learn them from?

The world will teach them it’s not a priority. The world will teach them it’s okay to lay out, not to pick up their Bibles. The world will direct them so far off course, confuse them, and misinform them that just being “good” is enough. The world won’t teach them about Jesus. That’s our job.

Bring them to church.

Matthew 18:5-6 And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Teaching kids is a huge responsibility. We must take it seriously and do it well. Prepare well, speak truth, and remember they are God’s kids first.

05/21/2022

If you’d like to come to our Vesper services but are hesitant because you are not of the Orthodox Faith, please call me at 706-455-8903. I don’t bite and I don’t know all the answers but I know where to get them! .....Gordon

04/18/2022

Q.
Why, when and how do Orthodox Christians cross themselves?

A.
Orthodox Christians make the ancient sign of the cross frequently during worship. This ancient gesture
(Orthodox Christians use three fingers of their right
hands [as shown above] to touch the forehead, heart area,
then the right shoulder/arm, and finally the left
shoulder/arm) is usually given when there is a mention
of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in the
Liturgy. It will also be seen at other times in the service.
This simple gesture, of making the sign of the cross on
our bodies, can be considered a way of keeping our
minds and hearts on Christ.
It is, then, a type of bodily prayer.