Fr. Alban West - Serves Saturdays and Sundays
Fr. Alban West holds a B.A. in Classics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon (1993) and an M.Div. from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts (1997). He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1997 and from that same year he has served as pastor of St George Antiochian Orthodox Church of Portland, Oregon. In 2004 he was elevated to the dignity of Archpriest. Since 1988 he has been married to his high-school sweetheart, Khouria Krista West, a master tailor and scholar of the Orthodox Christian vestment tradition. They reside with two of their three daughters in Salem where they enjoy spending their family time together singing, hiking, and skiing.
Fr. Edward Hillhouse - Serves Sundays
Fr. Edward Hillhouse, was born in Wisconsin, then soon traveled to Virginia and ended up in 13 different schools from San Diego to Alaska, as a Navy brat. These enriching experiences helped make him a better teacher, which he had had a vision of doing by the age of 14. He pursued his goal of becoming a school teacher through the education department at California Baptist University. After seven years teaching third grade in Riverside, California, Fr. Ed moved to the Santa Cruz area where he worked in the cleaning, landscaping, and hardwood floors businesses before helping to start an Orthodox school. He taught grades five through eight in his parish school for 16 years before moving to the Portland area. He currently teaches at Agia Sophia Academy since 2006, a position he feels privileged to fulfill. He also serves as an assistant priest at St George Orthodox Church in Portland and serves once per month at the Greek Orthodox Mission Church of Salem.
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All are welcome to join our Basics of Orthodoxy classes Wednesday nights after Vespers.
Vespers meets at 6pm with a lenten potluck* and class to follow.
* Lenten potlucks include food prepared without the following ingredients: olive oil, dairy, eggs, meat, and wine.
Vespers meets at 6pm with a lenten potluck* and class to follow.
* Lenten potlucks include food prepared without the following ingredients: olive oil, dairy, eggs, meat, and wine.
Past Events
We are now offering Sunday school for children. The children and Sunday school teachers will come forward first for communion, receive blessed bread, and then to head off to Sunday School. If you would like your children to attend please fill out the registration form. You can download and print here or pick up a copy in the bookstore at church.
Sunday School for Children
Thank you for visiting the Greek Orthodox Mission Church of Salem website. We hope you find our site informative and edifying. We also invite you to join us for one of our liturgical services – services that have been part of the worshiping tradition of apostolic Christianity since the era of the “early Christian Church.”
Our parish is more than just a place where people come to worship the living God (although it is first and foremost that!). The Greek Orthodox Church of Salem is a vibrant faith community of people of all ages and backgrounds who are working out their salvation together with fear and trembling in accordance with the commandments of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the sacred norms for spiritual life of the ancient Holy Eastern Orthodox Church. Many of our congregants journeyed to the Orthodox Church from other Christian faith traditions and denominations and some non-Christian religious and spiritual traditions. Whether you are “on a journey” or just wanting to visit a local Orthodox church you will be welcome at our Church. We are always honored to have visitors join us for prayer and worship.
We believe that our small church is the place where heaven strikes earth like lightening each Sunday and that ours is a Church immersed in the unchanging Faith of the ages. We invite you to come and see the Light; to come and receive the Heavenly Spirit; and to come and find the True Faith, worshiping the Holy Trinity, Who has saved us.
Our parish is more than just a place where people come to worship the living God (although it is first and foremost that!). The Greek Orthodox Church of Salem is a vibrant faith community of people of all ages and backgrounds who are working out their salvation together with fear and trembling in accordance with the commandments of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the sacred norms for spiritual life of the ancient Holy Eastern Orthodox Church. Many of our congregants journeyed to the Orthodox Church from other Christian faith traditions and denominations and some non-Christian religious and spiritual traditions. Whether you are “on a journey” or just wanting to visit a local Orthodox church you will be welcome at our Church. We are always honored to have visitors join us for prayer and worship.
We believe that our small church is the place where heaven strikes earth like lightening each Sunday and that ours is a Church immersed in the unchanging Faith of the ages. We invite you to come and see the Light; to come and receive the Heavenly Spirit; and to come and find the True Faith, worshiping the Holy Trinity, Who has saved us.