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Residing with Father Gordon presented the opportunity to meet and have closer contact with Father [[Daniel (Byantoro)]], the founder of the Indonesian Orthodox Church, and in 2004, at Father Daniel's request, Father Seraphim followed him back into the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
In 2005, Father Daniel and Father Gordon (now retired and CEO of Grace Ministries, an important arm of support for Father Daniel's work), asked Father Seraphim to travel to Jakarta, Indonesia, as Father Daniel's representative, for the inaugural Archpastoral visit of His Eminence, Archbishop [[Hilarion (Kapral) of New York|Hilarion]] of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]] and under whose [[omophorion]] Father Daniel and the Indonesian Orthodox Church (GOI) had been received the year before. Upon his return to the United States via Australia, Archbishop Hilarion raised Father Seraphim to the office of [[Reader]] on [[April 16]], 2005, at the Church of All Saints of Russia, in [[w:Croydon, Sydney|Croydon, Sydney]].
It is interesting to note that there is a personal link to the land of Indonesia, as Margaret's father was born in Bandung, Java, Indonesia, of Australian and Dutch parents and lived here for the first 13 years of his life. Margaret also looks forward to a closer connection with this country and its people in the future.