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* “As a young person I had been moved by stories of Father Damian, a Catholic priest who served lepers in Hawaii... I asked myself whatever happened to our missionary tradition in the Orthodox Church? Where were the Orthodox missionaries? What are we doing to share our faith with others? What are we doing to reach all those people who have never heard the [[Gospel]]? I realized that indifference to missions is a denial of Orthodoxy and a denial of Christ. How had it happened that a Church called to baptize the nations was so indifferent to the nations? Saint Paul brought the [[Gospel]] to Greeks. Who were we bringing it to?”

The missionary Archbishop [[Makarios (Tillyrides) of Kenya]] has expressed similar themes of Orthodox missiology, as well as the practical implications of evangelism for Orthodox Christians: