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At our new location on the first anniversary of being there.
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Beautiful sanctuary.

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Very cool! I am from Iowa, originally (Davenport), but I have not lived there in many years. It's nice to see the East there!

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Where is this at in Iowa?

Also, is this in someone's home? Or do you guys have your own church?

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Muscatine, which is where the Mississippi turns south after flowing westward from the Quad Cities. We are not in someone's house, though I think the building may have started out as a 1950s ranch-style house. It was a restaurant before we moved it, but completely gutted and remodeled, so it is mostly a wide open space and has two restrooms, a mechanical room and an old restroom that we converted into a confessional/quiet room. There is an addition where we have our hall. We are in a commercial area-there is a laundromat next door, a dance studio, a liquor store, Asian Massage parlor, a non-profit that promotes diversity, and a hair salon. All these are in different buildings, but we have a common parking lot. Heinz foods has a factory across the street (it is where they make their ketchup, among other things).

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Sounds like a unique opportunity to evangelize :-)

Modern America is a funny place.

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The local Melkite church to where I live (St, Ignatios of Antioch) was (apparently) originally a Methodist church. A lot of the liturgical items were donated to the parish by the local Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox communities. You use what you can get. Sometimes, that's a former restaurant next to a liquor store. I legit know of a an OCA mission near where I live, that, I think is in someone's garage.
I agree it's a unique opportunity to evangelize. I remember, during the evening of Good Friday, when we were doing a procession outside of St. Ignatios, a man in his car, asked the Late Fr. Michael Hull (may his memory be eternal) what we were doing. He told him, and the guy went on his was. If you're next to a bunch of businesses, I imagine some people would just stop by out of curiosity.

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Yeah, they folks at the laundromat looked at us funny on Pascha. There is an OCA mission in Pella that is in a storefront right downtown. There is a Western Rite ROC mission in Davenport that was in a storefront in the Hill district, but they are moving to another location.


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