Welcome to Our Visitors

We are happy that you joined us today, and we want you to know the following:

• Visitors and children are always welcome at all of our worship services.
• You won't be asked to do anything that would make you uncomfortable.
• We don't expect visitors to contribute anything financially to the support our parish.
• Our children worship with us, and we love having them here.

If you are an Orthodox Christian, please introduce yourself to Fr. Andrew before the service begins, so that
if possible, you may receive the Holy Mysteries of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you are not an Orthodox Christian, we invite you to partake of the blessed bread distributed at the end of the
service, and join us after the service for some hospitality!

If you are an Orthodox Christian new to the area or a non-Orthodox Christian interested in visiting, we invite you to come to St Nicholas church, whether it is to visit a Sunday Divine Liturgy, a Saturday Great Vespers service or a weekday event. For those who are already Orthodox Christians, the worship of Christ and welcoming community at St Nicholas will be as familiar as that of any Orthodox church you have attended in the past. For those who come from other faiths and traditions, St Nicholas welcomes you to experience Eastern Orthodoxy, both through the rich Christian teachings upheld by the Orthodox church for nearly 2000 years, and through the worship experiences the church offers several days a week. We invite all to "come and see."  If you've never been to an Orthodox Church before, we think you'll benefit from reading First Visit to an Orthodox Church to help you better understand what is going on and what we are about.

Feel free to either call Fr Andrew at the Rectory (815) 725-4742 or via the site CONTACT, or our lay leaders with any questions about ministries and activities at St. Nicholas parish. We hope that you discover our church to be warm and inviting, a comfortable community within which to seek the Kingdom of God.  We look forward to your visit with us.