Our parish’s former pastor, Father Damian Kuolt, has launched a new ministry at his current parish in Bend, Oregon. The effort is to create a coffee house with a bookstore that will draw interest in Orthodoxy among locals. It is inspired by a similar and well-known former coffee house in Colorado Springs called Agia Sophia. That successful outreach project has recently closed down, and Father Damian hopes to revive it now on the West Coast. More can be learned by reading about it in Bend’s local newspaper.