Holy Spirit
Rochester, NY
The roads were closing behind me in a whiteout blizzard as I was driving through Upstate New York on my way to my next installation in Danbury, Connecticut when Fr. George called me from Rochester, New York. He was calling to ask me when I could come out to see the church and meet the parish council. You’ll never believe where I am at the moment, I told him, and I hung a right off I-90 and walked into the recently purchased 110-year-old former Baptist church that was now the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit. They were having a meeting to discuss iconography and he said that it would be great if I could be there. When I walked into the church, Fr. George with his tool belt was up on a ladder carefully tearing down the pipe organ which was to be recycled – the pipes were going to be sold and the wood was going to be used to build an icon screen. And that is exactly what happened. After the parish council meeting that night, three of the members who were also members of a Greek bouzouki band had to go to work and they invited us to join them at the local Greek Taverna where we continued our design ideas.
