Hello, I'm Father Dean, the parish priest of St. John the Divine Orthodox Mission Church.  We are excited to share our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ with you. 

         I would personally like to extend you an invitation to visit our church and to experience first-hand, the worship service called "The Divine Liturgy."  Our Apostolic Church traces it’s spiritual history in unbroken continuity back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles.

         We are a Liturgical Community.  The word Liturgy is defined as "The work of the people of God," and the Divine Liturgy is the Eucharistic service of the Orthodox Church.  The Eucharist, which is a word taken from the Greek word meaning "Thanksgiving," is the central act of worship of the Orthodox Christian in worship. 

         Jesus Christ instituted the Sacrament of Communion at the Last Supper when He gave thanks, blessed the bread and wine, and ordered His disciples to eat and drink it as His own Body and Blood.  The Liturgy and the partaking of Holy Communion are the central actions of the Orthodox Christian's life and the mystical experience of the Risen Christ in our midst.

Our Orthodox Christian Divine Liturgy begins promptly at 10:30 A.M. each Sunday morning and is celebrated entirely in English.

        As the establishment of this new parish, we wish to provide an Orthodox Christian worshipping presence into the community by offering pastoral services and hospitality to those in need.

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

Saturdays - Great Vespers (6:30pm)

Sundays - Divine Liturgy (10:30am)

(Please contact Fr. Dean with any questions)

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Recently, we welcomed our Vladyka, Archbishop SERAPHIM to St John the Divine Orthodox Church for 2 days of celebrating, bonding, and fellowship.

On Saturday, he hosted a very informal meet and greet in our Social Hall, and he was very excited to meet eveyone!

On Sunday, Vladyka had a full agenda of blessings that he bestowed, before celebrating the Divine Liturgy. 

Congratulations go out to:

The servant of God, Reader Ray, ordained to the Sub-Diaconate

The servant of God, Adonis as a taper bearer

The servant of God, Syd as an Altar Server

The servant of God, Codruta as an untonsured Reader

He also blessed the new Icons on the Iconostas and will be be installed a new antimension

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In Time for the celebration of Holy Pentecost (The Birthday of Our Faith), and in the exciting times and recognition of our Holy Saints on their commemorative day, there is a lot of excitement at St John the Divine.

By some very generous donations made in memory of Nick Katsilas (1985-2009) – son of the priest, Constantine:

We are having some New Icons Installed!

We are currently creating some before/after photos, which should be on this site very shortly.  Also, on an interesting note:  While working on the Great and Holy Supper Icon (over the Royal Doors), it turns out that there was a beautiful, but much faded one underneath the existing one.  How awesome is that?

Come down to the church and check it out – And watch for the photos, too.

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