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St. Michael’s Orthodox Church: Time to Build Campaign
After nearly two years of struggling to keep up with multiple price increases that exceeded our budget (for the church building), St. Michael’s Church made the decision in March 2025 to shift to a less expensive Multi-Purpose Building. The plans include an 8,400 square foot, single-story building that will house an interim chapel, fellowship hall, kitchen, bathrooms, library, office and classroom space. There will be a partition wall dividing the chapel from the fellowship hall. We still plan to build a traditional Orthodox Church with a central dome in the future, but due to the overcrowding at our present facility, we needed to move forward on this multi-purpose building now. When the day comes that we complete our new church building, we will remove the partition in the multi-purpose building which will then provide the space needed for a larger fellowship hall.
The best bid we received for this multi-purpose building was $2.7 million, which was about $400,000 higher than our budget. Nevertheless, we have been working hard to lower the construction costs through deferring some of the building features that can be put off in the short run and allow us to complete a usable building. At present, we estimate that at least $200,000 can be deferred which leaves a funding gap of $200,000 in order to begin construction.
The construction bid is good for 30 days but will expire on October 31st. We have since launched a short-term capital campaign to close this funding ‘gap’ as quickly as possible. Our bank has agreed to accept signed pledge forms as well as outright cash gifts. St. Michael’s would like to invite all its parishioners and friends to consider making a one-time gift as soon as possible to help us reach this goal. You can use the online giving link to make a donation. If you wish to make a pledge, please consider making a short-term pledge to be paid in monthly installments over 3 months, 6 months or 12 months. If you use the donation link, please click on the “Special Instructions to the Seller” and type in “Special Campaign Pledge” in the text field.
We have been working hard to develop this property and build a church building for nearly nine years now. Our adversary, (the devil), does not want churches to be built that will help many thousands of people work out their salvation in Christ! Yet, just as God did not permit Satan to destroy Righteous Job, so He does not permit Satan to stop us. However, He does permit the evil one to tempt us and try to cause all kinds of delays and obstacles, just as He allowed Righteous Job to be tempted. As St. John Climacus said, “Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies…let us take up arms against them courageously. No one will fight with a resolute fighter!” Brothers and Sisters, let us be ‘resolute fighters’ and with God’s help, do our part to build this new church building that He may be glorified!
God bless you.
In Christ,
Fr. Gregory and the Board of St. Michael’s
Time to Build Campaign
St Michaels Orthodox Church 11th Annual Church Retreat LecturesArchpriest John Whiteford is a priest in the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and head priest at
St. Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas. He is Dean of the
Texas and Louisiana Deanery of the Diocese of Chicago
and Mid-America. He’s a former Nazarene Associate
Pastor who in November 1990 converted to the Orthodox
Faith soon after completing his B.A. in Theology at Southern
Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Father John is the
author of “Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone
of Reformation Theology” and the general editor of the “St. Innocent
Liturgical Calendar.”
Popadija Xenia Franck lives in Chisholm, MN where her husband,
Fr. Constantine, serves the Serbian Orthodox parish
of St. Basil of Ostrog. She entered the Orthodox
Church in 2009, lived around a variety of monasteries,
and received her Masters of Divinity from Holy Cross
Greek Orthodox School of Theology in 2019. She has led
retreats and given talks and presentations in many Orthodox
parishes across the country. Pda. Xenia is an iconographer,
studying under Dr. George Kordis and Abbess Katherine (Weston).
She teachesadult Orthodox education classes, chants in the
church services, has a YouTube channel, bakes prosphora,
sews, and likes to garden and ferment.
Regular Service Schedule
Saturday
Vespers, 6 pm
Sunday
Orthros, 8:45 am
Divine Liturgy, 10 am
Wednesday
Moleben & Akathist, 6 pm
Office HoursOur new regular church office hours are as posted here. Pastoral needs take priority, so please call first if you need to see Fr. Gregory during these times.
Tuesdays 10 am – 4 pm
Wednesdays 12 pm – 6 pm
Thursdays 10 am – 4 pm
St. Michael the Archangel
Orthodox Church
4319 Spartacus Dr.
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256)-881-2449