Themi - Apostle To The Hungry

<p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>A rock star atheist Marxist world-class theologian African missionary and a Greek Orthodox Bishop all in one lifetime? Bishop Themistocles Adamopoulo's life story reads more like a bestselling novel than a biography.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>Born in Alexandria Egypt Bishop Themi's family emigrated to Australia in the 1950s. In the 1960s Themi was the bass player for The Flies a Beatles-type band that took Australia by storm for two years. Then he entered Melbourne University and became an academic star and a neo-Marxist social activist.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>After a personal tragedy Themi sank into a fog of hippie confusion. His rock star atheist persona was shattered. Then one night in Eltham Australia changed his life forever. Over a few months a series of Divine visions changed a young man from a lost soul into a servant of Jesus Christ. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>He studied theology languages and Biblical studies at some of the most prestigious universities in Australia and America including Brown Princeton and Harvard. Themi became an elite Biblical scholar able to read Coptic Aramaic and Hebrew and fluently speak English French and Greek.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>In the late 1990s Themi again questioned his life's direction. Was he serving Christ best as a top-tier academic? A series of events led him to follow another path serving the poor in his native Africa.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>Themi founded the Holy Orthodox Mission in Freetown Sierra Leone in 2008. Over the past fourteen years Bishop Themi has battled Ebola the indifference of much of the developed world to African poverty and the ruinous impact of centuries of racism and colonialism to feed educate and offer the love of Christ to thousands of West African men women and children.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(116 118 126 1)>Bishop Themi Adamopoulo's life story is a reminder that there are real Christian heroes in this all too often phony world. Themi is the genuine article someone who truly embraces Christ's greatest commandment to love one another as He loved us. </span></p>