Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Faisalabad, Pakistan. It is a stavropegial parish of the Moscow Patriarchate and one of five such parishes operating in that country. It is one of the largest Orthodox churches in Pakistan, with liturgies being attended by as many as 200 people in a converted space. Fr. Paul cares for all of these parishes, which makes it difficult to provide the fullness of pastoral care to them. Recently Fr. Anthony came at his invitation from Stavropol and worked with him to baptize 33 new converts. The newly illumined received icons and chocolate as gifts from Met. Kirill of Stavropol, and likewise a set of liturgical utensils were donated to the parish. Pakistan is a place that is often hostile to Christians, yet by the grace of God the Church is growing there.

Temple of the Ascension of Christ in Elagino, Russia. Built in 1760 by the generosity of a Russian landowner, it is a church of the Metropolis of Tatarstan under the Russian Orthodox Church. Tsar Ivan the Terrible had previously planned to build a monastery there and donated an icon of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, and while this did not happen the icon became locally important. In the 1930s the church was closed under Soviet persecution, and eventually the village itself died out as people moved to the cities, a common event around the world in the 20th century. In 2024 a liturgy was served there for the first time in close to a century. The church has been selected to be part of a restoration project seeking to revivify thousands of dilapidated country churches across Russia. Even if they can no longer serve their original purpose as their villages have disappeared, it is a blessing for such houses of God to dot the landscape.

St. Jacob's Orthodox Church in Mundare, Alberta. Completed in 1904, it is a parish of the Patriarchal Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate. The parish began when 17 Uniate families from Western Ukraine chose to convert to Orthodoxy. The church was moved to its current location in 1942, and not long thereafter the first parish priest there, Fr. Jacob, was martyred in Odessa. A new iconostasis was completed in 1998 and a new altar was consecrated in 2002, continuing on the life of the parish. Significantly the church had been consecrated by St. Tikhon of Moscow. Today is his feast, and this church stands as a testament to the works done by this great saint.

St. Nektarios Orthodox Chapel in Monte Grande, Argentina. Located on the far southern end of Buenos Aires, it is a chapel of the Metropolis of Buenos Aires under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Buenos Aires is world-class city, with large immigrant populations. There are dozens of Orthodox parishes in its metropolitan area. Among these is a large number of Greek parishes, and even multiple Hellenic communities to organize the Greek presence in different parts of Buenos Aires. This chapel is one of the smaller fragments of this presence lying on the far southern end of Buenos Aires, administered by the Panelinion Hellenic Community and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church on Avenida Rabanal. Nevertheless it is a place where Christ and His blessings are being manifested in the Argentine lands. The Orthodox presence in Argentina is among the most ethnic in Latin America, but even there souls are being brought to Christ.