In Memory of John Doroski

Spouse: Nanette Doroski
Children: Paul, Sebastian, Charmaine, Simone, Jonathan, and Landon
Grandchildren: Joey, Caitlyn, Alexa, Kailani, Abby, Nick, Azalie, Enakai,  Aurin, Alora, Milo, Nadine, and Noah
DOB: January 3, 1948
Blessing Date: February 8, 1975
Ascension: November 10, 2025
Seonghwa Ceremony: Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 10am Eastern Time at the Defriest-Grattan Funeral Home, 13805 Main Rd, Mattituck, NY 11952, located on Long Island
GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/eca5db9ae

John was born in Greenport, New York on January 3rd, 1948 and graduated from New York State University with a degree in business. After college, John traveled across America to California after receiving a revelation—hearing a voice to help build an ideal city. In California he met who is now known as Alice Fleisher, and she invited him to join their ideal city project. When True Father arrived in California, he stated he needed to set up church centers in 50 states. John sent a note to True Father volunteering to do mission work. Father called him saying, “You want to be a missionary?” and John was sent to Texas. John brought in many members quickly, with True Father declaring him the best witnesser in America at that time.

John was later sent to David Kim’s 100-day training in Belvedere and later to Mr. Sudo’s 120-day international missionary training. On February 8th, 1975, John went to the 1800 Couple Blessing where he was blessed in marriage to Nanette Semha. Following the Blessing, missionary countries were chosen by lottery. John’s chosen country was the Philippines, but Nanette’s was the Bahamas. John thought that maybe if he picked again he could be closer to Nanette’s mission country—but of course that didn’t happen. John chose Kuwait. God sent him “to the belly of the whale” for not accepting God’s first calling, and Nanette was upset that he made that decision without discussing it with her—especially since she would have loved to have gone to the Philippines as she had a good Filipino friend.

John was successful in Kuwait in raising spiritual children under the hardest circumstances. He wrote a book on the parallels between the history of Islam and Christianity, which he researched deeply. Young Oom Kim wanted to have the book published and said he did a lot of work on it. She was editing it but then she passed away, and we do not know what happened to her edited copy. John was written up in the Kuwait newspaper as “the worst man to enter their country” because he taught that men and women are equal and taught what appeared to them to be Christianity. Eventually he was imprisoned and tortured—hung upside down from the ceiling and beaten on his feet and legs until he could no longer walk, and then dragged to a secret prison. Some weeks later he was released through the intervention of his spiritual daughter, Suhila, whose uncle liked John. The uncle, as a child played on the street with who became the head of the secret police, he then went to him and said, “I had him over for dinner and he’s not so bad, but if you don’t like him, just deport him.” In this way, John was saved.

Nanette, after serving in the Bahamas for two and a half years, was sent to the Philippines. She felt it was wonderful to have a second chance to go to the originally chosen nation. Heavenly Parent must have really wanted them to work in that nation. After John was released from prison, he joined Nanette in the Philippines, where she had become the 1st National Leader. Headquarters then said that John and Nanette should serve as National Leaders together.

In the Philippines, John used his amazing track record of success to convince people to join and stay in the movement. He opened the first 12 church centers and helped bring in the first 225 members. True Father said to John at a breakfast at East Garden, “Your legacy in the Philippines can never be taken away from you.” While in the Philippines, John also served as the Regional Leader of all Southeast Asia, responsible for Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand. John served in the Philippines for 5 years and Nanette for 6. To get a preview of John’s autobiography we’ve linked his unedited chapter on the Philippines here.

Later, John was sent to Australia as the National Leader and also the Regional Leader of Oceania, responsible for Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand. In Australia, John set up businesses to support the church, using knowledge from his business degree. He created a massage sandal factory and sold sandals to health food stores all over Australia, along with other health products. He developed a very large plant nursery, selling large totem plants to corporations such as Walmart, who came with large trucks to pick plants up. A large church center was purchased in Melbourne and a workshop center was built, called Willadoo. The leaders who followed him did not know how to operate these endeavors, so much was unfortunately sold off—causing John to wonder why he had gone there. Still, hopefully some foundations were not lost. John made Australia “like America,” establishing a Past Presidents and Prime Ministers organization, setting up a Professors World Peace Academy, and creating Science Conferences called ICUS. They held conferences and published a book of proceedings.

Upon returning to America, John became President of the American Constitution Committee in New York, lecturing on the values of the American Constitution. Later he became President of the American Freedom Coalition in New York, working to address cultural issues in America and promoting high values through American leadership conferences. He worked on national taxpayers’ issues, immorality issues, creating scorecards for political candidates—from local mayors and County Legislatures to U.S. Senators, Congressmen, and the President of the United States—he also trained parents to run for school boards, working on the problems with the Contras and Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and many other projects. Later, John became President of the American Family Coalition in New York, promoting pro-family values and instituting Fatherhood Initiatives working with broken families to inspire fathers to take responsibility for their families and become actively involved in raising their children. His wife served as Executive Director for all three of these organizations.

On his mother’s side, John comes from a long line of Patriots. His two 9th great-grandfathers were Myles Standish and John Alden, who came on the Mayflower. His fourth great-grandfather was Richard “Bull Rider” Smythe/Smith, who, as legend says, saved the life of a Montauk Indian Chief’s daughter and was told he could have as much land as he could ride on a bull in 24 hours. That land today is Smithtown on Long Island. On his father’s side, he is related to Polish Brigadier General Tadeusz Kościuszko, a national hero of Poland who came to America to help George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.

John and Nanette trained all 6 of their children to spend summers during high school going to various nations to do mission work—cleaning up after hurricanes in Honduras, building and restoring schools in Guatemala and Jamaica, working in AIDS orphanages and agricultural projects in Trinidad, building houses in St. Lucia, constructing a road in Beijing, China, and many other projects. They helped in 16 different nations. John and Nanette encouraged their children to “live for the sake of others” and to serve the world. Their children earned all their own money for these trips by working at the local supermarket and often part-time jobs.

John and Nanette celebrated their 50th year wedding Blessing Anniversary this year.  

Today, John and Nanette’s children are:
Paul, who served 24 years in the U.S. Army with two tours in Afghanistan and has 5 children;
Sebastian, who works in Human Resources as a Benefits Specialist and is a father of 2;
Charmaine, who has a Master’s in Education and 3 children;
Simone, Pastor of the Bridgeport, Connecticut Church and mother of 2;
Jonathan, a college professor with 1 child;
Landon, the Blessing Coordinator for the Northeast region who also works with the National Blessing Department.

A Seonghwa will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 10am at the Defriest-Grattan Funeral Home, 13805 Main Rd, Mattituck, NY 11952, located on Long Island.

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All are welcome to come and celebrate John’s life even if you decide at the last minute we’d love for you to be a part of this day.

For those that can not attend you can join by zoom.
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Sign up in this Google form if you’re interested in requesting a copy of John Doroski’s autobiography once the final edit is complete: https://forms.gle/kXBA5b8L4uXiRtFc7

In lieu of flowers, a contribution to his memorial fund (GoFundMe or Venmo) would be greatly appreciated to help celebrate his life.

GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/eca5db9ae
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Landon_Doroski

Contact: Catherine Ono 617-501-4776
Landon Doroski: 631-603-2931
Simone Doroski: 631-381-2182

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