St. Juvenaly and His Companion Mission

Diocese: Diocese of Sitka and Alaska
Deanery: Anchorage Deanery

Address

962 S. Hyer Rd.
Wasilla, AK 99567
USA

Mailing address:

PO Box 876194
Wasilla AK 99687-6194

Website: stjuvenalywasilla.org

Office: 907-671-3626

Parish Contacts

Schedule of Services

5:00 PM Vigil & Confessions.
Saturday Evening

9:00 AM Divine Liturgy.
Sunday Morning

7:00 PM Adult Education
Thursday Evening

6:00 PM Festal Weekday Vigil.
Eve of the Feast

8:00 AM Festal Weekday Liturgies.
Morning of the Feast

Parish Background

Who we are:

St. Juvenaly and his Companion Orthodox Church, a direct descendant of St. Innocent’s mission to the Mat-Su Valley and Upper Knick Arm, welcomes all to come and explore the Eastern Orthodox faith in the Mat-Su Valley north of Anchorage. We are a Pan-Alaskan Orthodox Church proclaiming the Gospel of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Our services are held primarily in English with a mixture of Slavonic, Unangam Tunuu (Aleut), Yupik, and Tlingit to enable us to serve our Alaska Native parishioners.

History:

The history of the Orthodox Mission to the Mat-Su Valley begins in 1850 with the foundation of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Knick, Alaska. Saint Nicholas was moved from Knick, building and all, in 1897 and, by the early 1980s, people in the Palmer and Wasilla areas recognized the need for an Orthodox Church in the Mat-Su Valley.

A group of people founded the St. Lazarus Mission in the Palmer/Wasilla area 1986 and, by approximately 2009/10, it was noted that much of the Congregation at Eklutna was commuting from the Palmer-Wasilla area. With the blessing of Archbishop +Benjamin of San Francisco (locum tenens of the Diocese of Sitka & Alaska Saint Juvenaly & his Companion Mission was founded in 2011, combining the congregations of St. Lazarus Mission in Palmer and St. Nicholas, Eklutna and forming St. Juvenaly & his Companion Orthodox Church. The land was blessed in 2012 and the building was constructed in 2013.

Currently, our growing parish is raising funds to construct a parish hall to further the mission of proclaiming Alaskan Orthodoxy in the Mat-Su Valley of Alaska!