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Thank you to the Dalson family for hosting our first GOYA meeting and Friday with Father for the year. It was a great turnout, and everyone enjoyed themselves!
Our new officers were installed last Sunday:
President- Anna Nanos
Co-VPs - Elena Giannoumis & Yiannis Onassis
Secretary- Alexandra McNally
Treasurer - Niko Chin
We wish them a blessed year!

• October 3– Girls basketball game in Broomall @ 5 PM
• October 10 - College workshop in the church hall.
• October 15-17 GOYA camp weekend.

2021-2022 PTO Membership Drive

Sarurday, October 9, 2021, PTO Trunk or Treat Evet

Our first annual Fall Food Festival held on September 17, and 18 was a great success! 

We were able to come together as a community family and generate revenues of $40,000.

We want to thank all those who participated, giving their time, talent, and treasure. Thank you, Fr. John, for your spiritual guidance and support and Dean for being an untiring leader and worker. Thank you, Peter, for your never-ending optimism and rallying of the troops and George for all your behind-the-scenes planning and organizing. Thank you, Teddy, for generously donating the beer garden and Diane for helping to set up our online ordering. Thank you, Jim, for your digital marketing skills and  IT expertise, and our fabulous chefs, Greg and Stathi, for creating all of our entrees from scratch.  Thanks to the kitchen crew who helped provide our delicious food: Alex,  Yanni,  A J, Vikki, Tina, Adrianne,  Jacinda, Christine, and Sophia.

Thank you to all our Philoptochos hands who provide our tasty spanakopita and wonderful sweets: Kiki, Dora, Demetra, Maria, Dea. Our beer garden was a great addition, thanks to Nick and Angelo!  Thanks to Yanni and Stephano for leading the grill area and Pete and Stella for heading up the restaurant, and all our restaurant and grill workers, including Eleni, Mark, Joyce, Christine, John, Mary, Mary, Susan, Erin, Cathy, Rubena, Anthony, Manny, Stephano, Mitch, Russ, Paul, Stella, Markos, Anna, Alex, Teddy, Chris, Steve, Vasili, and most especially to Panos for his four days of service and his truck. 

Finally, thank you to anyone whose name we’ve missed, and bless your service!  As in the past, a portion of our proceeds will be given to Jenkintown Food Cupboard, our designated local charity. 

Our website interactive calendar is unavailable at this time.

An alternative calendar is available here until we work out the technical difficulties.

What is SOCKTOBER? If you don’t already know, SOCKTOBER is a national movement that gives everyone an easy and fun way to help those in need!

Beginning October 1st until October 31st, we invite everyone to bring in new socks of all sizes colors and patterns to benefit men, women and children in need in our area. Please place your donations in the Homeless Ministry basket located by the Resource Center on the balcony.

A big THANK YOU to our Philoptochos for kick starting our drive and donating  six dozen pair of socks for those we serve at Aviator Park!

Additional sock donations will be distributed by “THE JOY OF SOX” to preselected non-profits the Homeless Ministry supports.

Please go to the link below to learn more about this mission:

https://thejoyofsox.org/10th-anniversary-socktober-fest/

Please join in and be a part of this “sole warming” drive!

Thank you!
The Homeless Ministry

THE PHILADELPHIA IOCC TENTH ANNUAL BENEFIT BANQUET will take place Sunday, November 7, 2021, at Adelphia Restaurant’s Pan Athenian Grand Ballroom, 1750 Clements Bridge Road, Deptford, NJ 08096. The Hors d’oeuvres and Silent Auction will begin at 3:30pm, followed by 5:00pm dinner and a special program highlighting IOCC’s humanitarian work around the world, made possible by your generosity. Join us!  Tickets are $65. For registration and sponsorships, see your IOCC parish rep or visit iocc.org/Philadelphia

Parish reps: Peter and Susan Gouris  curtins3@comcast.net  (908)421-6661, (215)901-6264

Since it’s inception in 1992, IOCC has provided more than $742 million in humanitarian relief and sustainable development programs to people facing hardship. Some ways IOCC serves: in the US, across the gulf coast after hurricanes Laura and Sally, in Tennessee after a tornado, and in Iowa following a derecho. Helping small businesses thrive amid economic uncertainty in Greece, and working with the Church in Kosovo to expand its agricultural and humanitarian reach.

Please join us to celebrate more than a quarter century of humanitarian work made possible by your generosity.

We are pleased to announce we have an upgraded mobile app! 

Vanco, our eGiving provider, has launched an updated mobile app called Vanco Mobile.
This new mobile app will be replacing GivePlus Mobile. With Vanco Mobile, you can send one-time donations or set recurring gifts.

How Do You Download Vanco Mobile?

It’s easy! Head over to the App Store or Google Play to download Vanco Mobile for free.

Be sure o download this app soon, as GivePlus Mobile will be retired as of December 31, 2021.

Current GivePlus App users will receive an email from Vanco with instructions on how to switch to the new app.

To give using Vanco Mobile, follow these five easy steps:

1. Search for our church by name.
2. Select your gift amount, fund, and frequency.
3. Enter your payment method. (You can save this information for future use!).
4. Choose whether you want to cover processing fees.
5. Click Submit to complete your donation.

You can also check out this Vanco Mobile How-To Guide for step-by-step instructions.

Please stop by the church office or call us if you have questions or need assistance.

Bulletin Announcements

Please submit your material by Tuesday noon for the upcoming Sunday’s bulletin. 

Your submission should be an editable document (Word, Publisher, Google Doc, Pages), as well as your final PDF document.

Please send your submission to office@anngoc.org and Cc Fr. John at frjohn@anngoc.org for his review and approval.

All submissions will be placed on a first-come, first-served, space-available basis and are subject to editing and review.

Sunday Extra Services

Please call or email us at the parish office at least two weeks in advance if you would like to have a 40-day mother & child blessing, memorial, trisagion, artoklasia (the blessing of the five loaves-wine & oil), fanouropita (St. Phanurios bread), etc.

Requests are considered based on the ecclesiastical calendar.