In Pictures

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March 21 and 22, 2005, the Icon travelled to the Alaska Peninsula. She visited Ss. John the Theologian in Perryville and St. Nicholas Church in Chignik. The only way to get to Chignik and Perryville is by plane. In the earlier days of the village of Chignik, the villagers were located ten miles to the east at a place which is near the Sand Spit on the northeastern most part of the Chignik Lagoon. Many people call this the Old Village today. In the early 1950s, some of the villagers found a more suitable place to relocate the village which would be up the Chignik River at the lowest part of Chignik Lake. After some families had moved to the new location, a few men brought some lumber up to erect a new chapel at the new site. Many of the Icons which were from the old church were brought up and placed in the newly erected chapel. In the late 1970s a family was desiring to build a new homne in the new site and by that time the chapel had already aged due to the weather conditions. When the family that had the lumber for a new home decided to move to another community, they donated the lumber to the church which began the new building of what is still standing today as St Nicholas Church. After the first priest had vacated the parish, he was replaced by Hieromonk Gerasim (Vurik). When Hieromonk Gerasim relocated to Sand Point, he was later replaced by Priest Maxim Isaac. Today, St Nicholas' parish priest is Priest Michael Trefon and Chignik is home to 138 Aluutiq parishioners who are all Orthodox Christians.

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The Akathist is served in Perryville. The parish was founded in 1924, Priest Michael Trefon services the parish of St. John the Theologian in Perryville..

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His Grace with the clergy and parishioners in Perryville.

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