On the weekend of 28-29 November our mission had a baptism and services for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of the Apostle and Evangelist Matthew.  Evan Cotten was baptised on Saturday 28 November, and on Sunday morning, the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served in Boambee, a suburb in the city of Coffs Harbour, in a temporary chapel at the home of Ashish Sinha and Evgeniya Biryukova.  At Divine Liturgy the newly-baptised Evan received Holy Communion for the first time, and in place of a sermon Father James read aloud the Jubilee Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. 

On Sunday 30 August our mission had services for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost and the Afterfeast of the Dormition of the Mother of God.  The Hours and Divine Liturgy were served in Barraganyatti in a temporary chapel at the home of Evan and Katerina Cotten.  This was the first service on the Mid North Coast for 2020, planned services in March and May having been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.