LIVE: STSA Groundbreaking Ceremony

hello everybody we are live from the land um and we're gonna get started in just a few minutes but in the meantime we wanted to um show you what's going on this is the future home of stsa you can see behind me um we're getting started we're waiting for the bishop to arrive but maybe we can interview a couple people and find out what they're looking forward to um for the new church let's see let's find our first uh are we live we're live steve you want to tell us what you're excited for in the new church maybe related to hope and what we're doing with hope yeah i mean there's a lot of stuff i mean when i think about this i don't think of a church i think of a center right and so there will be the church part and it'll be amazing for the pastoral care for the congregation and little guys like these guys but um what i'm also excited about is the community around us i mean all these people behind us and all this whole community is going to get to know us and get to know what we're all about and what we're all about is serving them so we'll run all of our service uh for them you know we'll feed the homeless out of this we'll have our mentoring programs or you know all the programs for at-risk kids in the neighborhood will be running this so when people look at it they won't only see church they'll see a center for hope and uh for you know love in the community so i think it's gonna be something bigger than the church how uh how far is that elementary school that we've been working with so we've been at an elementary school for about four years now uh doing mentoring and reading for at-risk children and it just so happens that the school is less than half a mile down the street so when we bought this land we looked at the address and they are very very excited about this every time i go meet with them they ask when is this building coming they want to use it for their parent night pto meetings so it'll be a great partnership and it really just totally just happened this way so it's really cool we're excited thank you steve well we wanted to show you a quick video as we're waiting that will kind of give you an overview of what this whole campaign is all about let me get that started for you ten years ago we were called by god to build a church with a specific mission to bring an ancient faith to a modern world we are passionate about being a church where people feel they truly belong regardless of their cultural ethnic or spiritual background by removing cultural barriers and placing a heavy emphasis on evangelism we strive to unveil the beauty depth and richness of our ancient orthodox faith and reveal its relevance to our lives in the modern world over the course of these 10 years we've done our best to faithfully live out this mission but we've been without a physical home all these years although we've been blessed with growth and our ministries are thriving being a portable church has serious limitations we are now ready to take the next step in building a permanent home in arlington virginia that will be a center for continued community impact and transformation in one of the most influential regions in the united states over the last two years we've worked extensively with local architects a top national real estate firm and consulted with non-profit experts to design a detailed comprehensive plan for our future home thanks to the incredible generosity of our members and extended network we've closed the fundraising gap but we still have two million dollars remaining which we need to raise by september 2021 we know we cannot do this alone so we'd love to have you partner with us would you help us continue to bring an ancient faith to a modern world by visiting us at morethanabuilding.org and donating today all right hope you enjoyed that video that was just an overview of what this campaign is all about and as you can see we've titled it more than a building hopefully you've been following along with us on social media with all the well messages over the past couple of weeks um the bishop and the priests are going to be here shortly to start the prayer but in the meantime we're hoping to interview someone else and see who can be brown sandra can we interview you i'm sure dandruff is um the head of all of our children's ministries uh at stsa so please tell us the children's perspective what are you most excited about with this new building oh wow i'm most excited to get to decorate and for kids to have their own movies it's been 10 years and it's taken a lot of creativity and a lot of juggling around and a lot of manpower [Music] and the bishop is coming so are we supposed to take pictures of our side yeah show them your signs um [Music] wow is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] this holy church in the name of sin timothy and thank you in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit one god blessed be god the [Music] begotten father begotten son jesus christ our lord amen [Music] be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth that is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us that we use not to temptation but deliver us the evil one in christ jesus our lord provide the kingdom the power and the glory forever amen [Music] thus guarded us accepted us and so the spirit has supported us and has brought us to this end our let us also ask him the lord our god upon the creator to guard us in all peace this holy day and all the days of our [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus christ we thank you for everything concerning everything and in everything for you have covered us help with us guarded us accepted as yourself spiritual support it doesn't have us to this and [Music] and accept the supplications and prayers offices all that which has been an rbf at all times and to keep the life and standing of our owner's father in just a second and his foreign [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] and all the days of our life and i'll be with your fear all envy all temptation all the working of satan the council of wicked people the rising up of enemies hidden or manifest you have given us the authority to tread on serpents and school things in every power of the enemies is [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] oh [Music] [Applause] hello [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] psalm 50 the form of repentance have mercy upon me o god according to your loving kindness according to the multitude of your tender mercy blot out my transgressions wash away iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for i acknowledge my transgressions and my sins that always before me against you only have i sinned and done evil in your sight that you may be found just when you speak and blameless when you judge behold i was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me behold you desire truth in the inner parts and in the hidden parts you will make me to know wisdom purge me with hysep and i shall be clean wash me and i shall be whiter than snow make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones you have broken may rejoice hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities create me a clean heart o god and renew a split past spirit within me do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your holy spirit from me restore it to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous spirit and i will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed o god the god of my salvation and my tongue shall sing a lot of your righteousness the lord open my lips and my mouth will show forth your praise sacrifice or else i would give it you do not delight and burn offerings the sacrifice of god or a broken spirit a broken unconfined heart he is oh god you will not despise do god in your good pleasure to die and fill the walls of jerusalem then they shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering and whole burn offering and they shall of course goes on your health okay before we continue now we're going to have us some readings in the book we all know but if you're a kid ask your parents for yourself um what is it that we're doing here what is it that we're praying okay so we just said that we placed this foundation here in the name of saint timothy's in ignatius okay must name the father son of the holy spirit we pray to prayer thanksgiving the prayer of repentance and what we're doing is actually very similar to if you look when like solomon built the temple there was like a dedication and there was a prayer about what this place would be and that's what we're doing so it's great with the pictures and the signs it's fantastic but it is a prayer it is the only chance is the only chance we have to pray this particular prayer right here we're hoping we don't build many of these churches this is kind of like a one-and-done so we're hoping that that we are asking god to bless this place we're asking god his presence to be here and if you we first pray to prayer of repentance why because we want this to be a home of repentance a place that leads the world to our friends we're going to say a litany in a second with the litany of the sick and litany of the sick is something that's very dear to my heart because we always talk about how the church is not a courtroom for sinners it is a it's a hospital so we're going to pray to literally stick that this place would be a place of healing to those homes and the people driving by to the people all around the people who are watching this wherever it may be and then we're going to pray specific prayers about god's blessing god's presence in this place so i know we don't have the screen in the follow along but listen up okay and hopefully we can all join together with one heart and then god will uh truly hear our prayers and answer for a reading them the book of genesis sorry just one second actually if you do have your sdsa app on your phones you can click on the notes section and you can follow along in the prayers as well a reading from the book of genesis may his lessons be with us all one moment now jacob went out from vera and went toward so he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set and he took one of the stones of a fat place and put it on his head and he laid down in that place of sleep then he dreamed and behold a ladder was set up on the earth and its top reached here in heaven and there the angels of god were ascending and defending and behold the am the lord god of abraham your father and the god of life the land in which you love i will give to you and your descendants also your descendants shall be as the god of the earth i will bring you back to this land for i will not believe you until i have done what i have spoken to that jacob awoke from his sleep and said surely the lord is in his place and i did not know him and he was afraid and said how awesome is this place this is none other than the house of god and this is the gate of heaven then jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put at his head set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of that and he called the name of that place bethel but the name of that city had been lost previously then jacob made a vow saying and god will be with me and keep me in this way that i am going and give me a bread to meet including to put on so that i can come back to my father's house in peace and the lord shall be my god and this stone which i have set as a pillar shall be god's house and of all that i you give me i will surely give a test to you glory be to the holy trinity our god reverence the ages of all ages [Music] uh [Music] you peace sickness all disease the spirit of sickness away those but long line in sickness race couldn't comfort those or afflicted unclean spirits that come all three those are imprisoned sir dungeons so those are exotic captivity or those who are held a good or bondage the lord set them all free and have mercy upon them for you are healed this is the mount of close to poland the hope of those who have no hope the help of those who have no how over the comfort of the pain hearted the harbor of those in a storm all souls that are distressed are bound grant to mercy oh lord grant them rest grant them refreshment grant them grace grant them help grant them salvation grant them the forgiveness of their sins and their neck with as forth also lord the mountains of our souls heal and those of our bodies too to cure are you the true position of our souls and bodies the bishop of all crush visit us with your salvation [Music] one mercy [Music] are of the gospel of god which all the golden censor and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides of clothes and which were golden pockets that had the menu aaron's rods that flooded and tablets of the covenant and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat of these things we cannot now speak in detail now when these things had been done prepared the priest always went into the first part of the tabernacle performing the services but into the second part the high priest went alone once a year not without blood which he offered for himself until the people's sins committed an ignorance the holy spirit indicating this that the way into the holiest of all was not made was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was standing it was it was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him to perform the service purpose in regards to the country concerned with the foods and drinks various washings fleshly ordinance and hope until the time of reformation but christ came as high priest for good things to come with the greater and more and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is not of this creation the grace of god the father be with you all [Music] oh [Music] [Laughter] is [Music] is [Music] [Laughter] and righteous purposes see the things that you see i'm not seeing them and to hear the things that you heard them bless your eyes for they see your ears for the year may be worthy to hear and collect according to your holy gospel to the prayers of your oh [Music] [Music] until our god order promise to propose them those who are sick heal them for the life of us all salvation of us all hope of assault healing of the soul and resurrection of us [Music] hello [Music] unless the lord guards the city the watchman stays awake in vain i was glad when they said to me let us go into the house of the lord our feet have been standing within your gate so jerusalem hallelujah let them exalt him in the church of his feet and [Music] for he has made the family like a flock of sheep the upright shall see and rejoice the lord is sworn will have no regret you are a priest forever after the order of melchizedek the lord is at your right hand our stately father the patriarch [Music] may the lord keep your life [Music] is [Applause] [Music] stand in the fear of god then let us hear the holy gospel this is he who comes in jesus christ the son of the living god to hold his glory [Music] now we came to pass about eight days after he sings that he took peter and john and james and went up on the mountain to pray as he played the appearance of his face was altered and his world became white and glistening and behold two men talked with him who were moses and elijah who appeared in glory and spoke of his disease which he was about to accomplish a jerusalem but peter and those with him were hit were heavy with glee and when they were fully awake they saw his glory and told men who stood with them then it had happened as they were partying from him that peter said to jesus master it is good for us to be and let us meet three tabernacles one for you and for moses and one for elijah not knowing what he said while he was saying this a cloud came and overshadowed them and they were fearful as they entered the cloud and a voice came out of their country this is my beloved son here [Music] when the boys had seen jesus was found alone but they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things they had me me but we will go back thank you for following make sure you have it in your heart to help us reach our goal you can donate now by texting the number on the screen is reconfess the baptism [Music] this is the final prayer of the service okay and we'll encourage everyone as we're praying is praying with all of our heart this is one of those we're not listening to but we're all praying together he gave us the spirit of wisdom to bezalil to prepare the bond for your blessing and holy name and the estrangement of your people in the wilderness we ask you our king and from prophethood to strengthen the house which will be built to worship your holy and blessed name which is glorified in all things purify this house and strengthen this house may it be a solid foundation prepare it to be a pure sanctuary for the priesthood of your holy enlightening hands may they offer honor and heavenly glorification so your people would enjoy the church right the holy solemnity the mystical heavenly home your servants place the foundation on your name depending on your hopes so help them until the end for this we ask and to treat your goodness or lover of mankind graciously share the work with them all envy all temptation all the work of satan the rising up of enemies hidden and manifest take it away from them will god grant them what is good and beneficent accept their determination in honoring your holy name which is exalted above all honors and bless them with heavenly blessings make us worthy to lift up lift in it our hands unto you and glorify your holy name abundantly through praises spiritual services and sweet savor unto your divinity unto you we offer the glory the honor and the worship with your good father in the holy spirit now whose is christ jesus um [Music] david may the lord preserve the light and rising armor on its father the high peace may the god of heaven come from them on their thrones for many years and peaceful enemies times their feet speed up we pray to christ on our behalf that he may forgive us our sins and peace according to your great mercy lord have mercy lord bless us [Music] is congratulations [Applause] it is more than a building but it is still a building so there wouldn't be any building prayer complete not some shovels and hard hats so what we're going to do is we're going gonna all together and we're gonna have some pizza in a second okay before we get to the pizza we're gonna say worthy worthy worthy let's go saint mary and let's go saying timothy and samantha's while we put on some hard hats and we have some shovels and we'll do some fun stuff right here let's go [Music] picture off digging into the ground [Music] [Applause] um [Applause] uh [Applause] um [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] um [Applause] [Music] me [Music] foreign congratulations everyone i'm so happy to be here today [Applause] hopefully don't we need another visit before the buildings [Applause] and now we have free pizza let's um let's show you some of the signs that the kids have made before they've run to the free pizza [Music] okay while they're doing that let hopefully this is working for you everyone father anthony here and if at any point you've been impacted by our ministry at stsa then listen up because we need your help we are so close to reaching our goal of raising 2 million dollars but we need your help to cross the finish line if each of our 11 000 online subscribers donates just 165 then we can reach our goal we can't do it alone but with your help i know we can get there text the number below or click the button to donate now and may the god of heaven bless you and make you prosper and reward you for your generosity okay again we're coming to you um live from our building and we are about to take a group picture so i just want to show you everything [Music] let's come around and see if we can oh here's joe joe would you like to be we'd love to hear joe is one of our subjects joe what are you most excited for for this building so this is my first time coming to the land i'm so excited for everything and just having no space and deacons can practice in one location so i'm really excited for this day so finally i get to see it actually happening that dig in the dirt all the way yeah thank you guys what are you excited for um when as soon as we start building this land and when we finally have our traditional live for 10 years i am so excited to have our space finally and not have to set up and tear down and just have that that feel of of a church it's not just a building but we decided to have that feel and not have to sit up and tear down everything thank you sylvia okay let's go see if we can uh get in with some of our friends because grace hi guys this is father abraham hi everyone i'm one of our priests at fpsa and father what are you most excited for when it comes to this building i mean i just can't imagine how many people are going to be presenting taking communion we have icons up we're going to have a great time sunday school classrooms and you know we get to serve the people in the community around here so we're so excited we're not going to just be on sunday only we have to put stuff up and take it back down but imagine all the people here in the area can actually come to our trip we have a place for people to come we're so excited for that ancient faith and modern world so we're excited that we're somewhere we're on the map now so we're so excited for that thank you for everyone who is out there supporting and praying and encouraging and as you can see today this is a great big step and we have many more steps to go but we're just so grateful for this stuff [Music] um if you haven't already we'd love for you to comment where you're watching from or where you follow us from um we know we have people all over the world you know the well because so many people um so if you to comment in there let us know where you're joining us from um and like i said you can donate and help us reach our goal to finish up this building as soon as possible and have better streaming better services like father abraham said reach out to the community around us here but also provide resources for you to reach out in your community and build the ancient faith wherever you are so we're praying that we can reach our goal and get this building up so thank you guys again for joining us um let's try to track down his grace that would be really great that would be really great with our followers yes my dream is for you all first of all to be here what are you doing online you should be here in person the weather's gorgeous you have everything that we need right here my dream as i mentioned during the prayer is that this would not just be a regular uh building but it would be really a house of god house praying to worship in a house that people who just drive by is like people drive by you know something special happens in this house you feel like there's a prayer or something powerful here we've always had that people come to sdsu and they're like i was just walking by and i felt like there's something special happening that's my prayer for this place 24 7. not just on sunday morning but 24 7. yeah that seems to be a theme that it's not just going to be sundays go to more than a building.org more than a building.org that's more than a building.org because we're not just trying to build a building we're trying to continue the mission of god which is bringing the nation facing modern world and there you can join us by contributing or by us creating your own fundraiser to solicit from your friends and networks and of course you can always join us in prayer as well we appreciate whatever it is that we can do because as i've said many times katie knows this i have no doubt god is going to build this house i have no doubt but the question is are you going to have the blessing of being part of it so there's no doubt that god's going to do anything i want everyone to have that blessing thank you thank you so much more than a building.org thank you and and if in case you guys have been to the website multiple times before please visit again because as of this morning we've revamped it and there's a tracker there that's live that's updating as we speak um so every time there's a donation you'll know exactly how far we are from our goal um so we'd love for you to check that out if you're if you have it in your heart to do a fundraiser in your own area you can do that within your website so make sure you check that out let's see if we can interview just one more person um [Music] foreign [Music] thank you guys so much for joining us we're going to wrap up the stream here we got people to eat like like father and she said it's a beautiful beautiful day here in arlington virginia so thanks for following along um please leave a comment showing us your support please visit moreheadbuilding.org to show support and you can donate now by texting the number on the screen thank you guys so much for joining i'm gonna play the video one more time so you guys can wrap up knowing what this campaign is all about thank you thank you ten years ago we were called by god to build a church with a specific mission to bring an ancient faith to a modern world we are passionate about being a church where people feel they truly belong regardless of their cultural ethnic or spiritual background by removing cultural barriers and placing a heavy emphasis on evangelism we strive to unveil the beauty depth and richness of our ancient orthodox faith and reveal its relevance to our lives in the modern world over the course of these ten years we've done our best to faithfully live out this mission but we've been without a physical home all these years although we've been blessed with growth and our ministries are thriving being a portable church has serious limitations we are now ready to take the next step in building a permanent home in arlington virginia that will be a center for continued community impact and transformation in one of the most influential regions in the united states over the last two years we've worked extensively with local architects a top national real estate firm and consulted with non-profit experts to design a detailed comprehensive plan for our future home thanks to the incredible generosity of our members and extended network we've closed the fundraising gap but we still have two million dollars remaining which we need to raise by september 2021 we know we cannot do this alone so we'd love to have you partner with us would you help us continue to bring an ancient faith to a modern world by visiting us at morethanabuilding.org and donating today okay guys i know we said we were going to wrap up but i found father timothy and he wouldn't let me end the stream without me so we are signing out i promise this is it let's say we're not going to keep you uh here any longer we're just so thankful for anyone that's tuned in make sure you check out more than a building and definitely keep us in your prayers it's a big project and we're all excited it's a glorious day but we need all the prayers we can get for this big project so make sure you spread the word and join us in prayer thank you all so much enjoy your weekend very close lightning and thunder bye everybody

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Published: Sat Sep 04 2021