Ex-City Priest Due At Parley

A former Ann Arbor pastor will return here July 4-6 for the second annual National Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Orthodox Church.
Fr. Eusebius A. Stephanou, founder and editor of the Logos Magazine, is a leader of the charismatic movement in the Orthodox Church. He was pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church here.
The main speaker at the conference will be Chris Panos, a Greek Orthodox and evangelist from Houston, Tex. He has led crusades behind the Iron Curtain.
The conference, like last year's, is being hosted by the local Word of God interdenominational charismatic community. It will be held at the Ann Arbor Inn.
The conference opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. A service will follow at 8 p.m. and a message on Ministering to Spirit-Infilling and Healing is scheduled at 9 p.m.
Sessions will continue all day Friday and include afternoon workshops on "Christian Growth in the Family." “Youth and Christian Growth," "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and "Personal Evangelism."
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysnstrom will be held at St. Nicholas at 8:30 a.m. July 6.
Fr. Stephanou served as pastor at St. Nicholas during the 1950s. The 49-year-old priest, of Fort Wayne, Ind., grew up in Wisconsin and received a BA degree at the
U-M.
He was the subject of a recent story in Christianity Today, a leading evangelical publication, which said:
"Fr. Stephanou traveled to Athens (recently) to plant seeds of the so-called charismatic renewal among churchmen willing to listen. His book, The New Breath of the the Spirt, is scheduled for publication this summer in Greece ...
"The first national Orthodox charismatic conference was held last summer in Ann Arbor, Mich. Registration was under 100, but, reminds Stephanou, 'the Catholics started with only five.' (There may be as many as 300,000 Catholic charismatics in North America, with burgeoning growth overseas. The movement began in 1967.)"