Co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Western Pennsylvania, the Diocese of the Midwest and the Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America, the Parish Development Forum is a conference for Orthodox clergy and laity which provides an opportunity for discussion of timely topics and discovery of practices used by healthy, vibrant Orthodox parishes.
Due to restrictions and concerns associated with the Corona virus, the 2020 Forum was reconfigured as a one day online conference that occurred July 9, 2020 via Zoom.
The Theme was "The Orthodox Parish: Charting a Course in Challenging Times". The keynote address was delivered by His Beatitude Metropolitan TIKHON, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.
Materials from the 2020 Forum can be found at the following links:
Opening Session
Keynote Address - Metropolitan Tikhon
Introduction: Lessons Learned from the Messy Middle - Joseph Kormos
Video -- May be available in the future.
Parallel Session 1
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Re-establishing Community and Fellowship Archpriest Andrew Jarmus
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What’s Next? Using Our Gifts to Expand Our Ministries Archpriest Thomas Soroka Video - Unavailable |
What Good Practices Should Continue? What Have We Learned? Archpriests Nicholas Wyslutksy, Justin Patterson and Kirill Sokolov |
Afternoon Keynote
The Lived Experience: Fear-based Isolation and Anxiety-driven Change -Priest Sean Levine
Video - this video is a brief summary of reactions from the morning session AND Fr Levine's talk. Fr. Levine's talk begins at 11:38 in the video.
Parallel Session 2
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Top 10 Practical Tips for Leading Parish Online Classes Archpriest, Stephen Frase |
Talking to America: When the Gospel is Needed Most Archpriests Peter Baktis & Paul Jannakos Video Unavailable |
Adventures in Streaming If We’re Going to Stream -- Do it Well! Steve Adams, Phil Tesar & Archpriest Nicholas Wyslutsky Video of Session - may become available in the future |
Parallel Session Three
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Coming Back to Church: What are Your Concerns? Catherine Vrugitz & Elaine Rentel This session was intentionally not recorded |
Healthy Pastors in Challenging Times Archpriests Marc Vranes & Nicholas Solak This session was intentionally not recorded |
The Ministry of Liturgical Music -- Thinking Ahead Archpriest Lawrence Margitich; Vladimir Morosan, Tracey Edson |