Baptism and a New Life in Christ is a tremendous gift, which is why the Church never hesitated to baptize infants from the very beginning. Just because we think a child doesn’t have the cognizant ability to understand the gift of new life, doesn’t mean we withhold the gift! Whether we received the gift at infancy, or whether we came to the Orthodox Church at a point later in life, we have the responsibility to not keep this life to ourselves, but rather share it with all those who we come into contact with.

How has Christ’s Resurrection changed us personally?

Pascha isn’t just another Holy day it is an experience. It brings about in all of a special change, that can only be brought on when God rises from the dead!

Before we tell the story of what is happening in our Church today, I want to take us all back 14 years ago. At 5:52 PM on August 24th, 2007, destruction struck our little town of Fenton, Michigan. A F2 tornado touched down in the heart of the downtown area taking down trees, destroying properties, business, and leaving several families homeless as their houses were turned into a pile of scrap. On our own little property, still 8 months from construction being completed on our little Church, there were fallen trees that littered the property. Through a lot of hard work and prayer, our Lord worked through my predecessor Fr. Paul Jannakos, along with several members of the parish, to take those fallen trees, mill them, and use the wood to create a beautiful Iconostasis that rises up before us when we come into the Church to pray.

True and full happiness and satisfaction cannot be found in the world…but only in the love of God