{"id":24057,"date":"2024-07-07T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:20:28","slug":"outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24057\" class=\"elementor elementor-24057\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-753c9104 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"753c9104\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5572eb67 sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"5572eb67\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69a45bc2 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69a45bc2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Mission of the Outreach &amp; Evangelism Ministry is to renew and share the Orthodox Christian Faith in America by nurturing a deeper commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ within His Church, by reaching out to inactive Orthodox Christians and to the unchurched, by meeting the needs of those inquiring about the Orthodox faith, and offering each community the tools for parish renewal and for the establishment of new parishes. As Archbishop Demetrios has said, <em>\u201cIt is the Parish, it is the local community which has been, is, and will forever be the central, indispensable agent for offering our Orthodox faith to contemporary America.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Vision<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As the presence of the Universal Church, the parish is called to witness to those within and those outside the community of believers. If we believe that in Orthodoxy we have the fullness of the Truth, then we have the great responsibility \u2013 the Great Commission \u2013 to share it with all people. All aspects of the parish may be seen as apostolic, and the Orthodox faithful are called to incorporate Christian mission in all aspects of life. When Christ said, \u201cGo therefore and make disciples of all nations\u2026\u201d he commissioned us to transform the parish into an agency of Christian outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The American culture offers us great opportunities to conduct successful parish renewal, outreach and evangelism. It is time for a new beginning and a renewed effort to inspire creativity and revival in Orthodox Christianity in the United States. It is our duty and obligation not to hide our light under the bushel, but to let it shine before all people \u2013 to regain the missionary model that established the early Church. We must let our light so shine \u2013 because unless people see in us the light and the love of Christ, they will not believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Parish Outreach Coordinator<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Althaia Vitikos at: <a href=\"mailto:althaia@verizon.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">althaia@verizon.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission The Mission of the Outreach &amp; Evangelism Ministry is to renew and share the Orthodox Christian Faith in America by nurturing a deeper commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,219],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-ministries","category-ministries","tag-ministries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29069,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions\/29069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stbarbarasrq.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}