New Building Project Update March 16, 2026

Friends,

Yesterday our Parish Council met for our regular monthly meeting. At that meeting, following up on our charge from the 2/15/26 annual meeting that the Parish Council determine the location of the new church that we approved at that meeting in such a way that this would be most financially advantageous for the parish, we voted to locate the new parish church and hall on the field just to the west of the existing cemetery, that is, to the north of our large paved parking lot. Your can find the pertinent architectural drawings at the link below:

NEW STV APPROVED BY PARISH COUNCIL 3/15/26

The next steps are to make some minor edits to this document and get it in front of the Lima Township Planner for his feedback. Once we have that feedback, we will make any additional refinements he suggests and officially submit the plans to the Lima Township Planning Commission. The plan is to begin construction in 2026. We had considered having Archbishop Gabriel join us on Sunday, March 29 to break ground for the project officially, but that is probably a bit premature. Once we have a solid date for groundbreaking we will invite Vladyka for this blessed event in the life of our parish.

At the same parish council meeting we heard from our Treasurer, Mikhail Fisenkov, that conversations between our Financial Ambassadors and our parish family members are going well, and that people are considering the question of how each can contribute to the support of this project in a serious manner. This is all we can ask – that you consider this question prayerfully and seriously. And if you do this, asking the Lord’s guidance, we are confident that He will bless our efforts in this regard!

Let us continue in prayer – each of us saying this prayer that was written by Venerable Gabriel of Georgia daily – that we will follow the will of God in this undertaking:

DAILY PRAYER FOR NEW CHURCH PROJECT

If we continue to approach this project prayerfully, consistently, and purposefully, I believe (with God’s blessing) there is nothing we cannot accomplish as a parish family. May the Lord grant it!

Asking Your Prayers,

Fr. Gregory