St Joseph of Optina Russian Orthodox Church

St Joseph of Optina Russian Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 3311 Galberry Rd in Chesapeake, VA 23323-1401. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake.

3311 Galberry Rd, Chesapeake, VA, 23323-1401

Phone: +17574791926 · Website: https://russianchurchvb.org/

St Joseph of Optina Russian Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 45 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Virginia — 2,098 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 St Joseph of Optina Russian Orthodox Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.9%
  • Social Isolation: 34.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 16.1%
  • Diabetes: 14.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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