OCCIF helped provide a cooperative funding program to assist St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Santa Rosa, California, by completing its new Parish Hall. The facility consists of a large multi-purpose dining and meeting space, full commercial kitchen, and bookstore. Included in this project was a free-standing general storage building and related site improvements.
“The way I look at [OCCIF], it helps build the Church – not just a single parish benefits, but the entire church benefits,” said Father Lawrence Margitich, Pastor of St. Seraphim. “So if [OCCIF] helps a parish in, say, Seattle, it is going to help Santa Rosa too. Because if one [Orthodox Church] is getting stronger, then we are all getting stronger.”