Fellowship Hour
Today's Fellowship Hour is the Parish Pot Luck. Thank you to everyone who has brought a dish to share with the parish family!
If you are planning to host a Fellowship Hour after a Memorial Service, Please make sure to sign up on the Felllowship Hour sheet on the bulletin board well in advance. Otherwise the Fellowship Hour Team will plan the Fellowship Hour for that day.
On most regular Sundays, there will be a basket out to receive your generous offering for the substantial Fellowship offerings you partake of. This money will be used to pay for the ingredients needed to make our monthly sandwiches for the guests at the McKenna House. Please remember to be as generous as possible!
If you would like to put on a coffee hour (for example, for a memorial) but you are unable to do so, please talk to Presbytera, and we will help you put together a simple Coffee Hour. There are many empty spots till the end of the year. Please check out the schedule and sign up for a Fellowship Hour.
Fresh Prosphora
There are lots of empty spaces on the Prosphoro sign up list! I have heard from a number of people (both men and women) who are interested in making prosphoro. Now is the time to sign up and try! Don't worry if you haven't made prosphoro before! Just sign up and take the dive! Just two or three loaves. There is a "prosphoro kit" with a seal, as well as an icon, prayer, and bread bags.
Lenten Needs
As always, we have need of donations for flowers for the first 5 Fridays of Lent for the Salutations and the Akathist Hymn. We are asking $45 for each icon. We will also be needing daffodils for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (Veneration of the Cross), a donation of $100. The palms for Palm Sunday are more expensive than usual because the company needs to have a special shipment, since our Palm Sunday falls a month after that of most of their clients. The cost of the Palms is $274; even a partial donation towards this will be helpful. Thank you!
April Greek Meal to Go
You are invited to enjoy our April Greek Meal to Go; pick up is Sunday, April 14 from 12 noon to 1:00 (the order cutoff date is Wednesday, April 10. April's meal is vegetarian stuffed peppers and tomatoes, potatoes, and a roll. The cost of the meal is $20. You can order by calling 603-953-3051, by email: ordermygreekfood@gmail.com or on line at www.holytrinitynh.org and clicking on the "contribute to Holy Trinity" icon.
Great Vespers for Sunday
Orthodoxy is not a "Sunday morning only" way of life. An important part of our liturgical celebration of our Lord's resurrection every Sunday is the celebration of Great Vespers the evening before. In order to get us back into this practice, we are celebrating Great Vespers on 2 Saturdays each month. Yesterday evening was our first. Our next Great Vespers will be next Saturday, April 6, at 5:00 pm. This is a beautiful and not very long service. We hope to see you there on April 6!
Silent Auction moving to October
The Outreach Ministries is hosting a Silent Auction in October. The items will be open for bidding for four Sundays during Fellowship Hour. In order to have an exciting Silent Auction, we need a number of items for bidding. We are hoping our Parish Family will help out by asking for gift certificates from your favorite businesses or by offering your own gift certificates for some item or service you can offer (like a gift certificate for 2 hours of lawn work or for some homemade jewelry or for a tray of your Greek cookie specialty or of spanakopita, etc.). If you can help out in this, please see Elena Newman.
Men Can Cook Too: Holy Trinity Concord Cookbook, dedicated to the men of the Community.
We would like this to be not only a great cookbook, but also a way to remember members of our Parish.
Gentlemen, we are looking for your recipes! Of course women can and should also send in recipes. Recipes should be dedicated to men (e.g. something your husband, dad, etc. likes or liked to cook or eat). Ideally the recipe should be accompanied by a few words and/or photo (e.g. this is my husband‘s favorite Lenten dish. Every birthday my dad wanted to eat this cake. My papou always had these koulourakia for breakfast, etc.). Recipes should reflect the diversity of our community. We are not looking exclusively for Greek recipes. If you are interested in being part of the Cookbook Committee to work on some aspect of it, please see Presbytera.
Please send any type of recipe ( and as many as you want ) to Jill Argyrople at jillargyrople@gmail.com.
An Appeal from the Outreach Ministries
The Outreach Ministries are continuing to collect warm blankets, dark warm socks, and a new item--hand warmers. Extra winter coats are also always welcome. The food collection as well is always going on. Thank you from the least of your brothers and sisters for your generosity!
We are also in need for more items for the Blessing Bags: shampoo, body wash or soap, granola bars, and dark warm socks. Do you have a Blessing Bag in your car? If not, make sure to pick one (or more!) up on your way out of the Church Hall.
Any thing you can bring that will help the needy, and especially the homeless. The shelters are closing at the end of March, so people without any place to live will have to find some place to live outside somewhere. Blankets, tarps, warm dark-colored socks, as well as items for the Blessing Bags to give out are all important. Remember the words of St. George of Drama: If you pray without giving alms, your prayer is dead. Your hand should always be open. Alms and prayer go together...Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary doesn’t want candles; she wants alms to be given to the poor.
Can You Help with a Strategic Plan for our Parish?
Our two task forces: (Stewardship and Engagement in Ministry, and Liturgical Engagement and Education) have competed the first stage of preparing the Strategic Plan for our Parish. The next step is the final polishing of the plan. This will take place on Saturday, April 6 beginning with lunch at noon and going until 4:30. Even if you have not been part of this undertaking, we are going to need more involvement for the step and the next phase. Please come and join in this exciting time for the future of our Parish Family!