Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

Our Parish

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Saint John's School

About Orthodoxy

Eagle River Institute

St James House

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Saint John’s community sits at the base of the Chugach mountains in Eagle River, Alaska. It is a parish in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
We invite you to join us in our journey to know God and to serve our neighbors within the tradition of Orthodox Christianity.
Sunday Divine Liturgy - 10:00am
Saturday Vespers - 7:15pm

Parish Happenings

  • Livestream St.John's Services

  • Coffee Hour Info and Schedule

    Coffee Hour after Sunday Liturgy is an important time of fellowship. Please check the schedule in the link below to see when your group is assigned to bring snacks and also when you are to host. Thank you!
    Coffe Hour Groups - Spring 2024Coffe Hour Host Schedule - Fall 2024

  • Thursday Night Talks - 6:30pm Saint James House

    Fr. Marc, with Eric and Hannah, will host this time of discussion and casual conversation around the living room fireplace, about topics all Christians are challenged with in our modern world. We will approach these topics from the Orthodox perspective, but this doesn’t mean we will always come to perfect conclusions on every topic. Rather we will listen and learn from others and try to have an open mind about some things. The format will be to read a short something together followed by a discussion. Weekly articles can be found at the following link.
    THESE TALKS WILL RESUME OCTOBER 10.
    Articles for Thursday Night Talks

Community Highlight

Scenes from Fr. John Downing's Funeral
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Fr. John Downing fell asleep in the Lord on October 4. He was buried next to his wife Nancy Lee. Fr. John's son Sam sits on the right side of the picture. Additional clergy concelebrating, but not pictured here, were Fr. John Fenton from Whittier, CA and Fr. Matthew Howell from Wasilla.Give rest, O Lord, to the soul of your servant who has fallen asleep.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

If we stay humble and patient with each other, and if we want and will look for the word of God, no matter how black the cloud that comes across the sky, if we remember that which we have believed, that God has come to us in Jesus Christ, if we turn away from becoming bitter, if we ask God to strengthen us do what we can, and ask Him to lead us and expect that He will, if we come and pray together every time we can, ultimately everything will be okay. Our hope is in God, a hope beyond this life only, a hope anchored in something yet to come, yet somehow already familiar, a hope guiding our actions in this life of here and now. So no matter how black the cloud that comes across the sky, we know the light of God will shine again in ways brighter than we have ever seen, someday burning away once and for all our fears and doubts and restoring to us a joy and a spirit we once hopefully knew as children. In God, everything will be okay.”- Fr. Marc Dunaway, October 13, 2024.-

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"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

Christian life is life in the image of God in three Persons —life together with others. It is very rare that someone is cast into complete solitude, or called by God into the desert; then he is obliged to live in isolation. For most of us Christian life means life in a community of one kind or another —and hermits themselves usually have to pass even decades in a community before living alone. As St. Silouan put it: “My brother is my life.” A married person can say — and it is the only theologically correct way to live — “My wife (or husband) and children are my life. They are the content of my life; it is living with them that I must learn Christ-like love.” The criterion of my spiritual health is this: what is the state of the relations between me and those with whom I live? No other criterion is higher. Family life is the measuring stick of Christian progress for those who live in the world. - Sister Magdalen, Essex England, 'Children in the Church Today.

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