All Saints of America Antiochian Orthodox Mission

All Saints of America Antiochian Orthodox Mission was founded in Homer, Alaska during the summer of 1996 with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP. Fr. Paul Moses Jaroslaw and his family, along with Subdeacon Thomas Reese and his family (formerly from St. John's Cathedral in Eagle River, Alaska) purchased a large house on a scenic bluff over-looking the city of Homer (called the 'Holy Cross House') and began both a ministry for college kids, as well as the development of the Orthodox Mission. For the first four years, 80 college age young people came to Homer from all over the country and lived with the Jaroslaw and Reese families. This became the foundation for the Mission. In the fourteen years since their arrival, and with the labors and love of many, a beautiful church has been built to the glory of God, and Orthodoxy has taken root in one of the few Alaskan cities where there was no former Russian Orthodox influence. (Excerpt from The Antiochian Diocese of Los Angeles and the West.)