Paraskeva, you certainly are a missionary and Evangelist!(: By adopting children, and birthing children, and teaching them the faith...you are a wonderful missionary. And so are all loving Orthodox parents! Our children are not missionaries \\"yet\\", but rather, our most important mission field! And there\'s plenty of martyrdom in being a parent! Oh why, didn\'t someone warn me!ha (this mission field seems much too difficult today of all days!)
Anyway, if Orthodox churches would work on \\"keeping their kids\\" ...it would help. I have a friend who was raised Orthodox...who won\'t go to her church, cause she doesn\'t understand the language spoken there...her parents and grandparents do, but that doesn\'t help her and her \\"now grown child\\" who was never raised in the church.
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