You may wonder what ORPR is.
First, ORPR stands for Организация российских православных разведчиков, which can translate as the Organization of Russian Orthodox Pathfinders.
On their website, they present it this way:
“ORPR Camp, located in rural northern Illinois, provides our Russian Orthodox Youth with a month of instruction in Russian Orthodox Religion, Russian Culture, History, and scouting in a comfortable camp setting. The camp session runs the entire month of July and also includes activities such as swimming, hiking, scavenger hunts, campfires, sports, and arts & crafts.”
This past Saturday, October 24, some of our parishioners joined a larger group to prepare the campgrounds for winter:
Click on the first picture of each gallery to see them in full
Our parishioners were also very active with learning to bake Prosphora:
Look at the beautiful result:
Father Michael joined the camp crew.
He recently received the Nabedrennik (набедренник):
it is a an embroidered, rectangular panel of fabric worn at the hip under the Phelonion (the outer liturgical robe) as a badge of honor and a symbol of a spiritual weapon.
The priest receives it after three years of faithful service:
