Holy Apostles Orthodox Church

08/28/2026

☦ Become a Certified Lay Catechist

Program Begins September 14
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There is still time to apply for our online Catechist Certification Program. Join the many others who have already enrolled. Help our priests and parishes teach the faith to the people knocking at the doors of the Orthodox Church. Become a certified lay catechist!

➡ Learn More & Apply: https://buff.ly/WArZ1UY

Receive training from His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, faculty members from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and many other leading Orthodox Christian leaders and teachers.

Program participants will be taught in three phases:

▪️Phase 1: The Catechist and Contemporary Church Growth
▪️Phase 2: The Work of a Catechist
▪️Phase 3: Church Growth and Catechism in Our Time

The program is designed for individuals and parishes seeking to launch or to enhance their catechetical programs. It is not a catechesis but a training program for aspiring catechists and Church growth directors—professionals who will support their priests or even work full-time in parish life.

What You'll Learn

Sessions will focus on topics such as:

▪️Practical instruction on how to teach biblical, historical, theological, and liturgical subjects;
▪️Management of group dynamics;
▪️Awareness of various resources for catechetical training;
▪️Guidance in approaching contemporary questions;
▪️Strategies for the integration of new members to the local parish;
▪️And more.

Apply today. Seats for this course are filling up! The deadline to apply for the Catechist Certification Program is Tuesday, September 7, 2026.

08/24/2026

We have several special services coming up (including our NEW series of Inquirer's classes starting up on September 1st!). For a list of upcoming services and events, head to:

We are an Eastern Orthodox church in Vancouver, WA. We invite you to join us for worship and fellowship!

08/24/2026

What did a seventeen-year-old Kallistos Ware encounter when he first stepped inside an Orthodox church?

In The Inner Kingdom, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware recalls the unexpected moment his journey to Orthodoxy began:

“I can remember exactly when my personal journey to Orthodoxy began. It happened quite unexpectedly one Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1952, when I was seventeen. I was walking along Buckingham Palace Road, close to Victoria Station in central London, when I passed a nineteenth-century Gothic church. ...

At first I thought that it [the church] was entirely empty. Outside in the street there had been brilliant sunshine, but inside it was cool, cavernous, and dark. ...

Then I realized that the church was not altogether empty. Scattered in the nave and aisles there were a few worshipers, most of them elderly. Along the walls there were icons, with flickering lamps in front of them, and at the east end there were burning candles in front of the icon screen. Somewhere out of sight a choir was singing. ...

My initial impression of an absence was now replaced, with a sudden rush, by an overwhelming sense of presence. I felt that the church, so far from being empty, was full—full of countless unseen worshipers, surrounding me on every side. ...

Like St. Vladimir’s emissaries I too had encountered “heaven on earth.” I too had felt the immediacy of the celestial Liturgy, the closeness of the angels and the saints, the uncreated beauty of God’s Kingdom.”

—Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, The Inner Kingdom, Chapter 1, “Strange Yet Familiar: My Journey to the Orthodox Church”

In the days leading up to the anniversary of his repose on August 24, we invite you to explore the writings of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.

Discover his books: https://svspress.com/kallistos-ware/

08/18/2026

-Tonight at 6pm is our Vigil for the Feast of Transfiguration!

-Tomorrow morning at 9am is the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of Transfiguration. Bring your grapes and fruit to be blessed! This is also a Fish Day!

-Thursday 8/20 from 7-10pm is our Teen Game Night! Bring a fasting snack to share!

-Saturday 8/22 from 9-11am is Coffee and the Grounds followed by Panikhida from 5:15-6pm and Great Vespers from 6-7pm.

-Sunday 8/23 from 8am is Matins followed by Divine Liturgy at 9:15 with a potluck to follow!

08/16/2026

Many Years to our Bishop!

May God grant His Grace Bishop Vasily of San Francisco and the Diocese of the West, Orthodox Church in America many years on the occasion of the anniversary of his consecration to the episcopacy!
Eis polla eti despota!!

08/16/2026

08/13/2026

08/13/2026

Interest in learning about the Orthodox Faith? Join us for our new Inquirer's Class series beginning on Tuesday, September 1st! Vespers will be at 6pm followed by a tour of the temple. Childcare and light snacks will be provided! See details below.