Today Fr. Gabriel reflects on those moments in life where new territory is explored and we enter a strange land. He also celebrates the naming of the new Mission!

Fr. Gabriel muses on the necessity and value of being bi-vocational as a mission priest.

How do you maneuver in the waters of secularism when you are about a true alternative?

Bringing Orthodoxy to a new community involves a demonstration of the communal nature of salvation.

Returning from a brief vacation, Fr. Gabriel reflects on the old right brain, left brain model and explores the mindset of a priest.

Your relationships in the community matter a great deal not only on their own merit but in your efforts to establish a mission.

Its inevitable when you are starting a mission. There will be times of discouragement. But how should we react?

How should we look at the obvious need for finances when starting a new mission?

Fr. Gabriel even wonders if this is a post-post modern world or back to a modern world! Whatever age we are in, there are unique challenges facing us in planting a mission parish.

How do you unravel the Truths of our faith in a place where there is no history, experience or concept of Orthodoxy?