calsfoundation@cals.org
January 30, 1960
The parish of Zoodochos Peghee, the Life-Giving Water (St. Mary’s), was dedicated. The Orthodox church had been built in Hot Springs (Garland County) in the 1950s. The parish had eighteen families at the time. Orthodox Christianity endeavors to lead all peoples of all nationalities toward a dynamic spiritual relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Arkansas has an estimated 2,000 Greek Orthodox Christians, out of a total 1.5 million in the United States and approximately 300 million worldwide.