SARA GETTYS
Sister Iosiphia stops to give instructions to the girls cleaning up after lunch during the camp that St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox monastery hosted while Ellie Wise (14) from Stanwood, WA sweeps the floor. A portrait of Gerontissa Efpraxia, the monastery's abbess and spiritual mother hangs above them. Just as the nuns work to develop the spiritual awareness of the girls, the nuns look to Gerontissa Efpraxia as a guide for their own journeys as they move from further from the lives they lived as girls and women in the world and deeper into their faith.
