Welcome home. We’re glad you found us.
Christ is Among Us!
Icon of Christ in Glory in the iconostasis at St. Elizabeth
The Holy Spirit is always guiding us, always directing us to that which is good; pointing us toward the Holy, to God. Today you have been led here, to this very moment, to the website of an Orthodox Christian Church in Woodstock, Georgia.
Wherever you are and whatever your reason for being here, one thing unites us all together and gives us purpose– Christ is calling us all to Him and to the place where He dwells, His Holy Church. In the Orthodox Church we don’t focus on where the Church may or may not be, but rather on where we know that it is – and we know that the fullness of the Body of Jesus Christ is found within the Holy Orthodox Church. You are here because the Orthodox Faith is for all people, and that means you!
The Orthodox Church is the Church founded by the apostles and the first followers of Christ with the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. That means that the very same teachings and faith have been handed down from generation to generation by the bishops of the Church and spread all throughout the whole world. Even the Holy Bible as we know it and have received it was compiled by the Orthodox Church and preserved as we have inherited it today.
If you come to an Orthodox Church service, you cannot help but see that the Divine Services, teachings, and beliefs of the Church are fully immersed in the Holy Scriptures.
The Orthodox Church challenges us daily to take up our cross and follow after Christ. We are never to be complacent with who we are, but rather we are on an eternal journey to be transformed more and more into the likeness of Christ our God who created us in His image. Within the Church we are given everything we need to draw closer and closer to Christ. We are given a set of tools that the spiritual history of Orthodoxy has shown us again and again in the lives of the saints that leads the faithful to a life in Christ and Salvation in His Kingdom.
Please know that I would be happy to meet or speak with you as you continue your spiritual pilgrimage heavenward to Christ our God.
With Love in Christ,
Fr. Matthew Dutko
Pastor / Administrator
