Church of the Holy Spirit

The Orthodox Chapel of the Holy Spirit is an outreach of Holy Trinity Church in State College, PA. In 2008, a new mission community was developed in neighboring Snyder County. Pastor David Smith, an ordained Lutheran minister, began to be drawn to Orthodox Christianity. He was attracted because of his love of liturgical worship and the unchanging Orthodox faith. He contacted Holy Trinity Church, and eventually, a monthly Vespers service with Bible study began in his home in Beavertown for him an...