Eagle River, Alaska

Antiochian Archdiocese

Saint John Orthodox Cathedral

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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
  • Opening the Door to Orthodox Christianity - Thursdays at the Saint James House from 7-8:30pm - resumes Jan 9, 2025

    This will be a series of classes on the basics of Orthodox Christian beliefs and practices. These classes will be positive, not polemical; practical, not theoretical. Most of all they will aim to open the door to knowing the real God as He revealed through Jesus Christ and known in the scriptures and the Orthodox way. These classes are for inquirers and seekers, “nones” or Churchgoers, non-Orthodox or Orthodox who want to understand their faith better. Meeting with friends around a fireplace and talking about God is one of the best ways I can think of to spend a winter evening. So, I look forward to our time together. – Fr. Marc
    Documents FolderSchedule and TopicsSlides for "Heavenly Banquet" on Divine LiturgyMarriage and Monasticism - Excerpts

Community Highlight

Women's Retreat Attendees
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The Sisters of Mary and Martha hosted their annual women’s retreat at the Annex in Palmer. The topic this year was on mental and spiritual health. Joshua Arvidson (Licensed Clinical Social Worker among many other titles) presented on mental health care, and Elizabeth Klatt and Jane Lamb shared their mental and spiritual health testimonies.

Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

The season of renewal is approaching. For Orthodox Christians this the season of Lent, the springtime of our soul. The beginning of Lent is just weeks away. So now, like Zacchaeus, we know an opportunity is coming to see Jesus. The crowd around us is our distractions and troubles and responsibilities of our own life. And we are small against all these. But like Zacchaeus, we can make a plan. We can look ahead. We can plan try to rise above all the noise and crowding problems, rise above and put ourselves out on a limb and at least catch a glimpse of God in Jesus Christ.”- Fr. Marc Dunaway, January 25, 2025.-

"One Accord"

Excerpts from Christian writers Past and Present

As long as we want to deny that life is eternal, everything that belongs to life remains cloaked in tormenting riddles. Eternity remains the deepest longing of the human spirit. When we know that we are immortal beings, everything we experience is great and understandable; when we see ourselves as mortal, it all becomes dark and futile. If there is no other future and no other world (which is bound to be victorious because it is the better world), then the injustice that prevails makes nonsense of human existence by giving final victory to ‘the worst of all possible worlds.’” - Eberhard Arnold, German pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and co-founder of the Bruderhof, from the 'Inner Life.'