About Us
Who & What
These fields & facility are owned & operated by St. Mary's Orthodox Church of Iron Mountain, MI. To learn more about our parish please visit the church website at: www.northodox.org
St. Mary's Soccer Complex is a two field facility. We feature accessible bathrooms, covered pavilion, and off-street gravel parking. We are a regional soccer location with youth teams from both Michigan and Wisconsin regularly playing at our facility.
We are a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. To learn more about our Archdiocese please visit their website at: www.antiochian.org
Why
Our church built this facility to provide the families of the community a safe, high-quality location to play youth soccer in the summer.
While victories and goals scored are exciting, youth sports also can teach the valuable life lessons. Lessons in teamwork and collaboration, discipline and time management, grace in victory and defeat, maturity and self-control, resilience and perseverance, leadership, and responsibility are the moments that truly matter. These lessons are carried forward in the lives of the participants long after the season ends.
What is Orthodoxy?
"Sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church is the first Christian Church, the Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and described in the pages of the New Testament. Her history can be traced in unbroken continuity all the way back to Christ and His Twelve Apostles. For twenty centuries, she has continued in her undiminished and unaltered faith and practice. Today her apostolic doctrine, worship and structure remain intact. The Orthodox Church maintains that the Church is the living Body of Jesus Christ." http://www.antiochian.org/about
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America