Please keep Sara Lynn Gafford in your prayers as she prepares to enter our community on Feb. 1! Sara Lynn is from Ashville, Ohio (south of Columbus). We are very excited to welcome Sara Lynn into our monastic family and to be blessed by her joy, zeal and love! She, and the simple, black clothes she will wear during her initial stage of formation and discernment, will be blessed by Metropolitan William at her entrance. In this first step, she will be a dokimos (or postulant) and will continue to go by the name Sara Lynn. We look forward to sharing more with you soon about Sara Lynn and her entrance!