Sunday, March 27

Scripture Lesson for this week                             Sunday of the Cross – Tone 3

Epistle: Heb 4:14-5:6                                                                     Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1

 

Scripture Lesson for next week                                                     St. John Climacus – Tone 4

Epistle: Heb 6:13-20                                                                        Gospel: Mark 9:17-31

 

BIRTHDAYS: Brad Tyrrell (28), Lori Latchaw (29), Popadia Kim (2)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

·         Lenten Service: This Friday evening, April 1, we will have the Akathist Service at 6pm.

·         Pan Orthodox Vespers:  St Thomas will host the evening Mission Vespers TONIGHT at 5pm.  Please plan on attending so that we will have an excellent showing.  Our Sisterhood will host the Lenten Refreshments.  If you would like to sign up to bring something, it must be non-meat and non-dairy.  There will be a sign-up sheet at coffee hour.

·         Balkan Food Festival: St. Thomas' first food festival will be this October 15^th, 2011! Believe it or not, the months will pass by fast! This is why we are preparing our baked goods now and will then freeze them. Many of you have already signed up to help and we greatly appreciate it! Khouria Victoria has prepared flyers to hand out to everyone with more details explaining everything you need to do in these upcoming months. If you have any questions, please feel free to talk to Khouria Victoria after church or Ann Fry. Thank you to everyone who is helping with this big event! J

·         Rummage Sale: St. Thomas will hold a church rummage sale on Saturday May 7^th. Please feel free to contribute all of your excess goods towards this sale. No clothing please. Goods may be brought to church. See Jim & Robin Waltenberger or Ann Fry.

·         Orthodox Christian Women: The OCW is sponsoring a Lenten Retreat called "Building up the Body of Christ on the Parish Level" at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. The speaker is Fr. Luke Veronis, Pastor of St. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Webster, MA. Tickets are $12 and both men and women are invited. The Schedule is as follows: 9:30am – Coffee & Registration. 10:00am – Morning Prayers. 10:30am – Session 1. Noon – Lunch. 1:00pm – Session 2. Please make reservations by March 28^th by calling Nikki Bober at 330-563-4278.

·         Life Line Screening:  They will be back Friday, 15 April 2011.  If you pre-register at 800.324-1851 you will receive a discount.  Fight stroke with these valuable screenings!

·         Parish General Meeting:  Sunday 10 April 2011.  Sisterhood will provide a luncheon.

 

SUNDAY, March 20^th. 2011

Nancy Boville: Health of sister Louise Griffiths, mother Esther Troutman, sister-in-law Lynn Troutman and brother Jack Troutman.

Dorothy Frengou: Memory of husband Lazo Frengou on his 6 month anniversary.

Mr. & Mrs. John Joyce: Memory of Blanche Nokoff for new gold communion spoon.

Elaine Marzuola: Health of Teta Nonny Hunter and birthday of husband Casey and good health.

Sunday, March 6

Scripture Lesson for this week                               Cheesefare Sunday – Tone 8

Epistle: Rom 13:11-14:4                                          Gospel: Matt 6:14-21

 

 Scripture Lesson for next week                             Orthodox Sunday – Tone 1

Epistle: Heb 11:24-26, 32:12-2                                Gospel: John 1:43-51

 

BIRTHDAYS: Maria Angeloff (6), Ryun Louie (6), Sara Tyrrell (7), Popadia Toni (10), Jim Clance (11)

 

 ANNOUNCEMENTS:

·         Forgiveness Sunday: There will be a short Vespers service right after Liturgy today for Forgiveness Sunday.

·         Coffee Hour: Coffee Hour will be in the big hall today because the basement had some flooding problems this week.

·         Lenten Service: This Tuesday evening, March 8, we will have The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete at 7pm.

·         Monthly Lecture: Our next lecture will be today, Sunday, March 6 over "Prayers of the Departed." We will discuss questions such as "Do our prayers help the dead get into heaven?" and "Aren't we responsible for getting our own selves into heaven?"

·         Vespers: There will be no Vespers this Saturday, March 12. It will resume the following Saturday, March 19.

·         Great Lent: Tomorrow is the first day of Great Lent. This is a great time in the year for each of us to grow spiritually and to really "set aside all earthy cares" and deepen are relationship with God and possibly do things that we wouldn't normally do. Try having morning and evening prayers each day; starting and ending your day in prayer to God will not only help us through the fast, but maybe become a habit. We should all look forward to this wonderful and most festive time of the year!

·         Membership Committee Chair: The church is looking to fill the position of a Membership Committee Chair. The Membership Committee Chair welcomes new members, follows up with visitors who might be interested in joining the church and works with the board to promote new membership. The Chair also follows up with current members who have not been in church for a period of time and stays in touch with parishioners who might be ill or infirm.  The Chair should select two to three parishioners to be on this committee. If anyone is interested, please see a board member.

 

SUNDAY February 27^th, 2011

Nancy Boville: Health of Grandson LCPL Sean D. Ross who is a Marine in Afganistan and Mother, Esther Troutman.

Dorothy Frengou: Memory of loved ones.

Ed & Laurie Latchaw: Health of family and birthday of Ed Latchaw.

Machaw Family: Birthday of Jacob Yovanovich on "The Big 1."

Elaine Marzuola: Health of the Marzuola family and Elise & Timothy.

Beverly Spaethe: Health of Beverly Spaethe & Bill Scullion.

Steve & Kate Yovanovich: Birthday of our son Jacob Stevan on his first birthday.

Steve & Rose Yovanovich: Memory of father Tom Kostoff and brother-in-law Roy Yovanovich.