Glory be to God

Amateurs ringing the bells at church... Mike, the gentleman ringing the bells with me in this video, built this bell tower to hang the bells that a family in our church ordered from Russia. I think it was a few months after the bell tower had been built, that a young man named Graham showed up at our church to explore the Orthodox faith. He came into the Church, and I became his Godfather... soon thereafter, he took up an interest in learning to ring the bells properly. He's not able to attend most of the weekday liturgies that Mike & I come to, so we goof off and try to ring the bells in his absence (Graham is going to work at our Youth Camp this summer and has been looking for volunteers who he can teach to properly ring the bells... Mike volunteered, but Graham declined his offer. Mike took it in good humor. He's a living saint, I think!)

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Did not get a notification saying please check your email to confirm new account. I just clicked next after creating account and it said this account already created. I thought I had already been hacked and someone was using my email lol 🤓 So there was no transition process /notification letting me know I did what was required for my new account, here are next steps…

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happy Lent