UPDATE (Dec 28, 2022): We are pleased to announce that all iconography has been covered. Glory to God! Glory be to God! We are near completing the paintings. It has long been in our hearts and minds to have a fully painted church, and with God’s grace, we are witnessing this come true before our very eyes. Serval big icon projects are still available for being sponsored. We need your help to have this completed by Christmas; that we may celebrate our rebirth alongside the church’s rebirth into its glorious display of beauty. Also spoiler alert, these are the up-to-date photos hiding above the scaffolding:

After a beautiful vigil, the faithful celebrated the coming of the civil new year with food, fellowship and joyous celebration. The beginning of 2022 was spent giving worship to God in Divine Liturgy for the feasts of the Circumcision of the Lord and St Basil the great followed by the annual blessing and distribution of the Vasilopita. Here is a beautiful reflection for the New Year from Archimandrite Symeon Kragiopoulos: “At the beginning of the new year, we need to stress that only Christ gives abundant life. You live when you find Christ, when Christ comes to your soul, you love more and no one can take this life from…

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the close of the age. Amen.” Below is a photo album of the highlighting some of the growth St Xenia Church and the fulfillment of the Great Commission that is happening in Payson! Baptism of the Servant of God Joseph Baptism of the Stock Family

Every divine service in the Holy Orthodox Church is a petition for heaven to meet the earth and for the earth to ascend into the heavens. This photo album shows the blessing and first Divine Liturgy held in St Xenia church to the joy of many of the faithful and fellow clergy.

When St. Vladimir sent emissaries to all the known regions of the earth to report about the world’s religions, he was persuaded by those that visited the Orthodox Church of the Hagia Sophia in the city of Constantinople for they reported that they did not know whether they were in heaven or on earth. This historical event repeats itself every time a person walks into an Orthodox church and beholds the glory of God’s Kingdom on earth. This photo album records the beautiful iconographic work by the hand of which will beautify the walls of the temple and reveal in paint what is happening in reality: the Kingdom of Heaven…

With a quickly growing congregation in downtown Salt Lake City and the need for Orthodoxy to spread to the countryside of Utah, God provided land through pious donors to build a beautiful temple to the Glory of God. Below are pictures of early progress on the land and building. All poured their sweat, blood, and tears into making this vision become a concrete reality.