Christ the Saviour Mission

Early Beginnings As ironic as it may sound, the very first step toward the founding of an Orthodox Church in McComb, MS was the assignment of the Rev Norval Yerger as the Episcopal priest there in 1970.  After much prayer and study, he resigned his position as an Episcopal priest in June of 1977 and was chrismated into the Orthodox Church the very same month.  After directed study with faculty members of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, he was ordained to the Holy Priesth...