Diocese: Diocese of the South
Deanery: Southeastern Deanery
Address
333 8th St.
Helena, Georgia 31037
Parish Contacts
Birmingham, AL 35205
Directions
Located next to GA State Patrol Station on US Highway North in Helena, a town in South Central GA, about 80 miles Southeast of Macon GA
Schedule of Services
The mission is currently inactive.
Parish Background
For three years some new converts to the Orthodox Christian faith traveled from their homes in Telfair County, Georgia to St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Macon to worship with other Orthodox Christians.In December 2000, Archbishop Dmitri allowed us to start our own mission station in Helena, Georgia. He gave us permission to use Saints Constantine and Helen as our Patron Saints and name our mission after them. Hieromonk Innokenty Chmerko came down from Macon once a month on a Saturday to serve Divine Liturgy for us. We met in what used to be the office of a heavy equipment dealership in Helena. On Sundays we did the Typica service and on Wednesday nights we had Vespers and a Bible study. The Kehayes – an Orthodox couple who had moved to a nearby town from Seattle, Washington – helped us with our Bible study and our singing. In October 2001, Father Ted Pisarchuk, the director of missions for our archdiocese, visited our mission and served the Divine Liturgy. In the Autumn of 2001, we got a choir director who knows a lot about music – Michael Dykes. On January 6, 2002, Father Deacon Athanasious Hilton started coming down twice a month and bringing us the Eucharist from St. John the Wonder-worker Orthodox Church in Atlanta. This was really great! We got communion twice a month and on a Sunday. Since Deacon Athanasious was not a priest, he could not serve the Divine Liturgy, but he could do the Typica service with litanies and serve us the Eucharist. On February 3, 2002, at St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Norcross, Georgia, Archbishop Dmitri tonsured Steve Cravey to be a reader. *We are a mission of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America. Our membership is made up of both converts and cradle Orthodox.