Encore Webinar: Kenny Kidd: Creating Opportunities to See and Serve Our Parish Neighbors  

Many people believe that only larger parishes in urban areas can successfully provide food, clothing, occupation, and shelter to the impoverished around them. Kenny Kidd will lead a discussion that addresses this misperception that parishes need to partner or serve in the midst of a city center or somewhere "other" than their immediate parish neighborhood. Examples will be shared of opportunities to engage the faithful in service in the parish neighborhood, even if that parish is along a suburban highway and/or whose parishioners are all commuters. Participants will understand that ministry to the least of Christ’s brethren is a blessing that all in the parish can participate in regardless of their “secular” vocation.  

This session is an encore presentation based on content offered at 2022 Parish Development Forum.

About the Presenter Kenny Kidd 

Kenny is the Executive Director of FOCUS North America, an Orthodox non-profit that brings Orthodox faithful together to serve the needs of their most vulnerable neighbors across the United States, including food, clothing, occupation, and shelter needs.  A native of Charleston, West Virginia, and a social worker by education, Kenny’s career has afforded opportunities to serve on the front lines of homeless outreach/advocacy/services as well as international Orthodox missions before coming to FOCUS in 2017.    He was Chrismated into the Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday, 1997, at Holy Spirit Antiochian Orthodox Church in Huntington, West Virginia.