One way a mission starts

I sympathize with the founders of this mission in Wenatchee (say "wen-ATCH-ee"), central Washington state: I'm not exactly a couple hours from the nearest parish like they may have been, but in an "Orthodox black hole" nonetheless, so I may be looking in on their blog from time to time.

(HELLO WENATCHEE! Some beautiful country out there in the Cascade foothills! [The dry side of the Northwest!] I attended a couple Quaker Quarterly Meetings at the Methodists' Lazy F campground in nearby Ellensburg in the early '90s, living in Spokane and Seattle. And of course, drove through that neighborhood a few times between the eastern and western halves of the state.)