On Saturday August 8th, 2009 at the Sacred Monastery of Docheiariou on the Holy Mountain, in a touching atmosphere, a German by the name of Dominik Weiel, a 40 year old Geologist, abandoned Protestantism and was baptized Orthodox taking on the name Michael. For a place not known for its technological advancement, it is interesting […]
Starting From Inside the Kremlin
My first experience of an Orthodox church was inside the Kremlin in Moscow. I recall an icon of the Archangel Michael and not much more.
How I Found Orthodoxy
by Elizaveta Wehrmeyer From 1995 to 1997, my husband and I served as Baptist missionaries in Belarus. There, I encountered the Orthodox faith. I also experienced some difficult situations and people that led me to be disillusioned with my own Protestant faith, especially when the Baptist Union of Belarus told us that they did not […]
By Her Prayers…
by Elisabeth Hawkins I want to share how Grand Duchess Elizabeth has helped me in guiding me to Orthodoxy and strengthening my faith. As a divorced single mother, I was living with my eight-year-old son Timothy near Albany, New York. My older brother bad become a monk at Holy Trinity Monastery, in Jordanville, and came […]
How I Discovered Holy Orthodoxy
Nyssa’s Conversion Story I’ve been going through a long, tiresome spiritual journey, though from what I hear, there are many people who’ve been through at least as many denominations before coming to Orthodoxy. I was raised in South Bend, Indiana as a Nazarene, a Holiness sect with the doctrine of total sanctification, but without the […]
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