Board of Directors - Share the Faith Ministries

Chairman Rev. Deacon Christopher Purdef

Rev. Deacon Christopher Purdef was born in Columbus, OH. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 1997, and then his MA in Applied Orthodox Theology from the Antiochian House of Studies in 2013.

He has been married to his wife Valentina, a schoolteacher, since 2001 and they have a son, Andrej, who loves aviation and writing short stories in his spare time.

Deacon Christopher has been a member of St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church in Mesa, Arizona since 2007. He was a two-term member of the Parish Council, guides the Men of St. Ignatius study group, directed community outreach for the parish, and has led a parish group meal service for the Greater Mesa Homeless Community since the beginning of his deaconate. Deacon Christopher was ordained in March 2013 and is attached to St. Ignatius under the spiritual guidance of the Very Rev. Dr. James Coles.

In the past, Deacon Christopher worked as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer writing small to medium sized grants for community development projects as well as soliciting funding for these grants from expat NGOs raising over 10,000 USD for the Municipality that he served. In addition, he has worked in outbound sales and account management for an online advertisement firm based out of San Francisco, while the last ten years have been dedicated to counseling students for various Online Universities.

Deacon Christopher is dedicated to growing the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in North America. He believes that nurturing new missions and supporting priests is paramount to achieving Christ’s Great Commandment.

Treasurer Glen Chancy

Orthodox Christian for over 20 years. Married to Christine with five children. Past Webmaster for the Orthodox Christian Network. Former Parish Council member for five years at St. Stephen the Protomartyr.

Occupation: Product Manager for a suite of banking software products. Previously consulted globally for leading banking institutions. Experience in 32 countries.

Vice Chairman Haytham Khoury

Haytham was born in Damascus, Syria, in an Orthodox family. During his youth, he was a member of the Young Orthodox Movement, an organization that aims at the spiritual renewal of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Aleppo in 1988, he went to France to specialize in Hematology. In France, he had the chance to meet great Orthodox theologians, including Olivier Clement and Boris Bobrisnskoy. This strengthened further his commitment to Orthodoxy and evangelization. In 2000, Haytham came to Canada to pursue further training in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Furthermore, he completed a PhD in Molecular Biology. He works as a physician-researcher in Canada. Since 2000, he has been an active member of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America.

Board Member Subdeacon Michael Boyar

Sub-Deacon Michael Boyar is the grandson of the reposed Very Reverend Lukian Steciuk (OCA – Canadian Archdiocese), the son of Sub-Deacon Peter and Sonia Boyar (of Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Detroit – OCA); husband of Tanya Mitrofanova; Father of 4 children (Patricia Ann, Diane Marie, Vsevalod Igor and Alexandra Nina); Grandfather of 9 and Great-Grandfather of 1 and 2 more in production.

He was ordained to the Sub-Diaconate by His Eminence, Archbishop SERAPHIM (of the same Canadian Archdiocese) in September 2006 after working diligently for several months helping to reopen St. John the Divine Orthodox Church (Windsor, Ontario) which had been closed for several years.