St Innocent Orthodox Church

There are several aspects to the life in Christ we are called to live: worship, fellowship, discipleship, service and outreach. All of them must be present if we are to be the Church that is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. At St Innocent's, we strive for balance among the five in the parish's life. We also encourage it in a personal way in the the lives of our faithful, so that people can find the abundant life that our Lord promises. If you have seen these five aspects in other churches and think we're being trendy, be at peace. We're not. They are Biblical; the Church has always known about them.

At St Innocent's, we use the aspects to organize our parochial life and ministries. Each aspect has one or more ministry coordinators, who make sure that its ministries are working well. The coordinators are there to help others fulfill their specific ministries and roles, not to do all the work themselves.

Our worship ministries include: clergy, choir, altar servers, readers, vestry, prosphora baking, and greeters.

The worship ministries coordinators: Fr Michael and Ellen D'Fantis.

More on worship and its ministries can be found here.

Our fellowship ministries include: coffee hour, the activities committee, the sunshine committee, nursing home/shut-in visitation, the women's group, the men's group, youth activities

The fellowship ministry coordinators: Angie Skinner and Vickie Danko. Ellen D'Fantis and Dale Hudak oversee the activities committee. Fr Michael oversees the men's group.

More on fellowship and its ministries can be found here.

Our discipleship ministries include: catechesis, spiritual direction, and the church school.

Discipleship ministries coordinators: Fr Michael and Beth Hudak.

More on discipleship and its ministries can be found here.

Our service ministries are divided into in-house and public ministries. In-house service ministries include: Parish Council; and grounds, building, finance, auditing, nominating, ways and means, and strategic planning committees.

Public service ministries include: providing meals at St Herman's and supporting local and pan-Orthodox charitable agencies, e.g. Orthodox Christian Missions Center, Zoe for Life, Inter-Orthodox Council, International Orthodox Christian Charities, Eastern Orthodox Women's Guild, and Christians In Action.

The in-house service ministry coordinators: Fr Deacon Michael Timko, Dale Hudak

The public ministry coordinators: Ann Burnosky.

More on service and its ministries can be found here.

Our outreach ministries covers various means of communications: this website, the Sunday bulletin and monthly calendar, newspaper notices and advertising, etc.

The outreach ministry coordinators: Maria Sarris

More on outreach and its ministries can be found here.