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::Dcn Lev installed a pipeline, bringing cold water into the monastery from a spring on the mountain above the monastery bulding.
*1976: Dcn Lev returns to resume development of monastery. He travels a lot, lecturing and giving talks to youth. During this time he develops a sympathy for those Orthodox who lived away from a church. He often travelled as much as 10,000 miles on buses in a year for those who are isolated or those who request talks.
*1980: Deacon Lev is ordered to cease lecturing in parishes on the subject of the toll houses{{ref|1}} by the [[Synod]] of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. (Seraphim Rose also received a similar letter.) He was deposed by ROCOR for ""for having entered a jurisdiction not in communion with ROCOR" and went to the [[Free Serbian Church]].
*1981 Mar: In response to a 1980 request from a small group of Romanian Canadians who wished to worship in the monastery [[chapel]], [[Bishop]] Ireney of New Gracanica ordains Dcn Lev (a Serbian) to the priesthood for the newly-formed parish of St Tikhon and for the monastery, and tonsured him with the name ''Lazar''. Later, Fr Lazar tonsures Vasili with the name ''Varlaam''.
*1983: Fr Lazar offers to help a group of Serbs found a parish in Los Angeles, with services conducted in Church Slavonic and English.
