Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Christian Church

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Christian Church is a Orthodox church at 1218 East 32nd Street 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.

1218 East 32nd Street, Joplin, MO, 64804

Service times

  • Sunday 9am

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

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Christian Church 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 Christian Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 32.1%
  • Obesity: 39.0%
  • Depression: 26.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Joplin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.

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