St. Susanna Mission

In 1996, two Orthodox priests, one from the Orthodox Church in America and one from the Greek Diocese, and a handful of founding members undertook building an Orthodox Church in Tuolumne County, a rural area in California’s gold country. It was a daunting task. There are few models for such a collaborative effort, and the founders, who had no meeting space and limited resources, had not undertaken mission work before. Yet the Orthodox Christian Mission of Sonora has itself become a model of a su...