Parish History
In the summer of 1993, three groups of Early Church seekers came together to begin an Orthodox Christian mission in Solano County, California. These three groups consisted of (a) Orthodox Christians in the Fairfield area looking for a permanent Church home, (b) Episcopalian converts to Orthodox Christianity looking for an Eastern or Byzantine Rite expression of Orthodoxy, and (c) a pastor of a Reformed Episcopal Church and several families from his congregation converting to Orthodox Christianity.

Some Orthodox members of the new mission had been members of an Orthodox chapel at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield and were served by an Orthodox Christian military chaplain. However, with the reassignment of the military chaplain, this group of military and non-military Orthodox Christians began seeking a home Church that would not be effected by military assignments.

The timing was right and early in 1994 God acted, bringing together both "cradle" and "convert" Orthodox Christians, as well as those desiring to become Orthodox Christians, to form the St Timothy Orthodox Mission.

The Mission initially met in the California Teacher's Association building on Central Way in Cordelia, and subsequently moved to its present location at 4593 Central Way, initially leasing space and later purchasing the building and land for continued growth and development, thereby establishing a permanent Orthodox Christian presence in Central Solano County.

Members, then and now, drive from the cities of Dixon, Vacaville, Walnut Creek, Antioch, Concord, Hercules, Martinez and Richmond, as well as Fairfield and Suisun City, to form the "family" of St Timothy.

This family of "new" Orthodox Christian converts and "old world" Orthodox Christians whose families have been Christian for centuries -- often referred to as "cradle" Orthodox -- seek to grow in Christ and establish themselves as a traditional Orthodox Christian community, not tied to ethnic or cultural customs or forms of Orthodoxy.

Because English is the common language of the members of the Parish of St Timothy, as well as being the language of North America and the official language of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, all services are in English with the occasional use of Arabic, Greek, and Church Slavonic. Thereby, as American Orthodox Christians we are reminded of our heritage and "roots," and honor those Orthodox Christians who brought Orthodox Christianity to America from Russia, Greece, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, while effectively establishing American Orthodox Christianity in this area of Northern California.