Our Church Building Project officially went vertical on Friday September 8, 2023, the feast of the Nativity (Birthday of the Virgin Mary) of the Theotokos. The steel workers have made a lot of progress since then! Below are pictures of the work that has been done so far, as of 9/26/23. The playground has been […]

Our fall Building Fundraising Concert will be held on Saturday October 28, 2023 at Woodland church located at 15315 Huebner Rd. San Antonio, Texas 78248. Last year this was our most successful building fundraiser. Please join us as we raise some much needed funds for our building project. You can use the attached flyer to […]

St. Ephraim parish, many thanks to Constance Lopez, now hosts a San Antonio Orthodox Homeschool Facebook Page. The purpose of this Facebook page is to keep Orthodox homeschool families connected with each other. We hope this connection extends past the walls of our parish and helps unite all the Orthodox families in the San Antonio […]

Attached below is a prayer for children as they return to school. As our children return to public, private, charter, home schools and even college it’s important that we pray for them. Especially that they bring the light of Christ into their classrooms with them. Many blessings on a successful 2023-2024 school year!  “O Lord […]

We have begun our Catechumen classes for the year. Classes will be held each on Wednesday starting at 6:30pm at our chapel located at 8800 Broadway Suite 245 San Antonio, Texas 78217. Classes will be held each week until Christmas, we will not meet the week of Fall Break (October 11th) or Thanksgiving (November 22nd).  […]

We successfully poured the foundation for our new Church building on Friday June 2, 2023. Once the foundation cures, over the next few weeks, we can begin erecting the structural steel. Please consider how you can make contributions towards our new Church building project, fundraising has become a priority for our parish, as we complete […]

We have a very generous and faithful St. Ephraim parishioner who has offered a $150,000 matching grant for our building project. The terms of the grant are that we raise $150,000 by July 4, 2023 (American Independence Day), then he will match that up to $150,000. This is a wonderful opportunity for our parish to […]

Our regular Wednesday morning Divine Liturgy has resumed. Typically we serve a breakfast and are also hoping to have an adult Bible Study following Divine Liturgy. Please join us. 

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!  To view our Holy Week pictures on our St. Ephraim Facebook page, please click on the Icon below.   

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Saba Esper, is the Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East and the Holy Synod of Antioch elected His Eminence to lead the Archdiocese during its extraordinary session on Feb. 23, […]