Can a Church without missionary work flourish?
Can a Church like ours, beyond all her missionary needs outside of the U.S.A., ignore the fact that a significant number of people of the Omogeneia (meaning, “cradle Orthodox”) have been estranged from her and need to be brought back? Our Orthodox Church in America has been called, as I have repeatedly emphasized, to play a pioneering role of Orthodox presence and witness in our days and in the years to follow. She has been called by God to offer to America the authentic, whole and unchanged Jesus Christ. She has been called to offer to this Land the Whole Christ, the genuine, unchanged and eternal Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, the Christ of the Saints, of the Martyrs, of the Ecumenical Synods, of the Fathers, the Christ of the Holy Scriptures and of the Holy Tradition, a tradition that has incorporated the elements of the Hellenic cultural heritage in the most beautiful way. It might sound daring, but our calling, destiny, goal and vision is, as members of the entire body of the Church,
