Please pray for our brothers and sisters: Gloria, Niko, Elias, Christina, Christina, Malina, John, Pete, Vincent, Rose, Veronica, John Peter, Angela, Athena, John, Lynne, Deborah, Georgia, Ivana, Mary, John, Nancy, Jane, Michael, Kostas, Stephan, Deborah.
Trisagion Service: offered today for Cathy Chadwick's beloved mother, Norma Lawlor. May her memory be eternal!
Sunday School Graduation: today at the conclusion of the service we will have the Sunday School end of the year ceremony, including scolarship awards. We will bless the Sunday School Centennial project and we will then enjoy a barbeque in front of the church. You are encouraged to bring your own meat or sides. A big thank you for our dedicated Sunday School teachers!
Saturday of Souls: we will offer a General Trisagion this coming Saturday (June 16) at 10am. If you submitted your list during Lent, you do not need to re-submit it. Please bring a small koliva if you can.
Parish Council members on duty Christos Patrinos and Daphne Tikellis
Prosforo is offered today by Andrea Jones
June 16 Melinda Patrick
June 23 Tina Klidaras
June 30 Lisa Housianitis
Clergy Laity Award Dinner - Archbishop Dimitrios special guest The Clergy-Laity Award dinner will be held today, starting at 5 pm, at Lombardo’s, 6 Billings St., in Randolph, MA. $75 pp. We can also arrange a car pool, if there is interest.
We just learned that Archbishop Dimitrios will join us as the special honoree. It's a great opportunity for us to thank him and say goodbye.
This year's recipient, Andrea Jones, is truly a cornerstone member of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Newburyport, MA. Devout and knowledgeable in our faith, always reliable, going ‘above and beyond’, are but a few words used to describe Andrea. She was married into the Greek Orthodox Faith 31 years ago, when she wed her beloved, and recently deceased, husband Bill, in 1988, at the Annunciation in Newburyport. They raised two lovely daughters, Georgia and Eleni. Andrea fondly recalls attending her first service in our faith, the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Annunciation recently celebrated it’s Centennial Year, and with Andrea serving as our 100th Anniversary Chair, it was a phenomenal celebration! Each month we held a uniquely beautiful and moving event, tied to an Orthodox theme. Due to Andrea’s organizational skills, drive, and passion for perfection – each monthly event was wonderfully orchestrated, and celebrated by all Parishioners, past and present. She even found time that year to organize and prepare a hardbound 100th Anniversary cookbook and offer cooking classes!
Andrea has taught, and continues to teach, Sunday School for 20+ years. In addition to educating our youth in the religious tenets of our faith, Andrea has also instituted a ‘shadowing’ program, training our young people to be the next generation of Church leaders. The students are allowed to perform some of the functions of, for example, the Parish Council members – an initiative enjoyed and appreciated by all participants.
Amongst her very long list of accomplishments are Parish Council Secretary for two terms; ‘Coffee Fellowship Hour Coordinator’ for 5+ years; organizer of ‘St. Basil’s Tea’, a philanthropic fundraiser, since it’s inception 3 years ago; Greek Food Festival kitchen manager and workshop leader.
We proudly applaud and appreciate Andrea Jones, as a strong ‘pillar’ of our Church!
Greek Food Festival next meeting is Monday, June 10th at 6:30pm in the Klidaris Conference Room. Sponsorship letters and rates for the GFF Program are available in the Narthex and in the electronic bulletin. These letters are available electronically to customize as best to appeal to your donors. The program coordinator has received not input/ads/sponsorships so she is understanding why the program is not completed until the very last minuet - ever. Let's make an exception this year and get the info in as soon as humanly possible.
Upcoming workshops that need help are as follows:
Greek Green Beans - Tuesday, June 11th 9:00am
Dolmathes - Friday, June 14th and Saturday, June 15th and Sunday, June 16th time 9:30 am
Meatballs - Wednesday, June 26th and Thursday, June 27th time TBD
Galatoboureko- Wednesday, July 24th and Thursday, July 25th 9am-3pm
Rice Pudding - Wednesday, July 24th 3pm on...
Plaki - Thursday, July 25th 4:00pm
Complete!
Thanks to all our very hardworking volunteers, we were able to successfully complete 40 pans of pastitsio by late afternoon, an amazing task! I am so very thankful and appreciative of the dozen people who all came together to make this so successful. You all made the best team anyone could hope for. My special thanks of appreciation to Charlie and Daphne who worked extremely hard as team leaders. We hope the tasty results put a smile on our patrons faces at the GFF.
With Sincere Thanks,
Cathy Chadwick
And thank you to Melinda Patrick, Siroun, Gina, Ellen and Fr. Costin for rolling up the vegan grape leaves a relatively new offering, just the third year for our GFF. We will be putting the leaves in their individual containers on Sunday. These are sold cold and prepackaged in servings of 5 each for the same cost as the hot meat stuffed grape leaves.
Efcharistó, Andrea Jones