Right Reverend Serafim, Bishop of Kostajnica

On May 18, 2024, during the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Serafim was elected as Vicar to the Metropolitan of Midwestern America with the title of Bishop of Kostajnica. His consecration was held on Sunday, October 13, 2024, at the Church of Saint Sava in Vračar, officiated by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije.

Rev. Father Nectarios Trevino

Fr. Nectarios Trevino is a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He retired in 1998 and his last assignment was as a squadron commander. His entire career was in the Politico-Military Affairs and Intelligence career fields. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he earned a Juris Doctorate, the National Defense University’s Staff College, and the USAF’s Air War College. He served on General Norman Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War. Fr. Nectarios has extensive education and experience in deliverance ministry and exorcism.

Rev. Father Turbo Qualls

Fr. Turbo Qualls is the rector of St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He is also spiritual director for both the Convent of the Mother of God Seeker of the Lost, which is an urban monastic community, and the Mount Tabor School of Liberal Arts, which provides classical education that is rooted in Orthodox tradition. Fr. Turbo is also an iconographer, and holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in Addiction Studies and Pastoral counseling with an emphasis in crisis response and trauma.

Rev. Father Nikolas S. Delaveris

Rev. Presbyter Nikolas Delaveris serves as the Presiding Priest of Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Yonkers, NY. With a dual focus on spiritual care and clinical expertise, Father Nikolas holds a Master of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and a Certificate in Addictions Counselor Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

He has served as an Addictions and Behavioral Health Counselor across various mental health clinics, recovery homes, and outpatient programs in the Boston and DC metropolitan areas. Currently, Father Nikolas serves as the Director of Development for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Addictions Ministry and offers pastoral counseling to individuals and families throughout the United States.

Andrew Funk, LMSW

Andrew Funk is a Licensed Master Social Worker who has been working in the field of substance use since 2021. He currently works at a drug and alcohol detox center funded by Johnson County in Kansas.

He was baptized into the Orthodox Church in 2014, and has been in recovery since 2016. He primarily uses strength based and cognitive approaches, but fully recognizes the limits of these interventions for long term healing of those suffering from mental health problems and substance use. He is attempting to help clients combat narratives and assumptions, instilled in them by a secular and materialistic culture.

Dr. Anastasia Stewart

Dr. Anastasia (Rachel) Stewart is a clinical psychologist in California and an Antiochian Orthodox convert as of 2018. She has Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Communication Studies from UCLA (2003) and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Washington State University (2009.) Dr. Stewart trained at the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Executive Division, Dartmouth Hitchock Medical Center, and Dartmouth College. She is an expert in trauma and specializes in evidence based therapies such as cognitive behavioral treatments and 3rd wave behavioral treatments such as ACT and DBT. She provides consultation, supervision, and direct psychotherapy in California. She also provides spiritual counseling and life coaching to Orthodox clients throughout the world. Dr. Stewart focuses on the sacramental life and psychological evidence based interventions, creating a unique opportunity to integrate God’s truth found in the sciences with God’s healing in the church. Her work aims to help Orthodox clients move towards theosis and a true life worth living.