Clergy - Past & Present
Father Dustin Lyon
When I graduated from high school, I wanted to study archaeology and religion. This had been my passion since 4th grade when I saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
So, in the summer of 2001, I moved from my small hometown in Iowa to the big city of Minneapolis to study at the University of Minnesota. Two weeks after moving into the dorms, the unthinkable happened: 9/11. Like every other American, my world turned upside down in an instant. We were all afraid. Like many people, I turned to my faith to help me through it. I found a church in Minneapolis of the Protestant denomination I grew up in, but, instead of comfort, I found more confusion. This church was nothing like the one I grew up in even though it was in the same denomination as my childhood community. This congregation had a completely different understanding of who Jesus was and how to understand the Bible. I thought to myself, “If two churches in the same denomination don’t hold the same faith, then what happened to the church founded by Christ and entrusted to the Apostles? What happened to that faith?” It took me years of searching and spending some time in Greece on archaeological excavations, but I finally found my answer. The church started by Christ, the one organized by the Apostles, the one which conquered the Roman Empire was still alive and well. Though, today, we know it as the Orthodox Church. It was here, in the Orthodox Church, that I drew near to Christ. It was here that learned the life-saving message of scripture. It was here that I came to understand the truth of scripture. This life-changing revelation had led me to dedicate my life to Christ as a priest in order to spread the faith of Christ, the one handed he down to the apostles, here in Duluth, Minnesota. I invite you to come and explore the that same Good News at Twelve Holy Apostles. |
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