Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Chapel

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Chapel is a Orthodox church at 801 Saginaw Rd in Joplin, MO 64804. It is one of 124 churches in Joplin, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.

Our goal is to evangelize the Joplin area through exposing people to the living Word of the Ancient Christian Church, providing the history and teaching of the early church fathers as they were first taught by the Apostles, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

We are an apostolic expression of the early Christian Church whose mission is to go forth into all the world bringing the fullness of faith by means of preaching the gospel and traditions of the Ancient Christian Church.

801 Saginaw Rd, Joplin, MO, 64804

Phone: (636) 484-3715 · Website: https://joyofallwhosorrowjoplin.org/

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Chapel is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 27 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Missouri — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.

Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.

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The community around Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Chapel

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 36.9%
  • Social Isolation: 28.2%
  • Depression: 23.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
  • Diabetes: 13.7%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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