6TH ANNUAL ST. PHOTIOS AWARDS BANQUET
Our awardees this year are Isabel “Kiki” Niznik and Angelo Pournaras.
Show your support for our parish’s awardees on Saturday May 11th at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh-Cranberry.
Reservation forms and checks are due in the church office by April 12th!
FORMS CAN BE FOUND IN THE NARTHEX
PALM SUNDAY FISH LUNCHEON The Parish Council is hosting this annual luncheon on Palm Sunday, April 21, 2019 following the Divine Liturgy. If you would like to donate any items or help in the kitchen please contact Zach Economos Jr. We need your help the day of to make this a success. Calling all GOYAns: per usual we need your help serving this luncheon. Thank You!
4th SALUTATION ICON Thank you to the Marvin family for sponsoring.
ORTHODOXY 101 CLASS Wedensday, April 10, 2019 at 7:30-9pm following the Presanctified Liturgy we will be meeting for our third class in which we continue the discussion on the Church Calendar: Feasts, Fasts, and Fathers, and explore the icons of some of the feasts. All are welcome, even if you missed the other classes.
LAST CALL FOR TSOUREKI AND KOULOURAKIA Hellenic Dancers will be selling Tsoureki and Koulourakia Please submit order form to Harriet Sickles by this Sunday, April 7th
ENJOY ANDERSONS CANDY for EASTER AND support the Ladies' Phloptochos. A percentage of the sales of the candy comes back to the Philoptochos if you order through the Ladies' group. Put your orders in by this Sunday, April 7th, for deliver on Sunday Apirl 14th. Please give your orders or call with any questions to Mary Menis at 724-266-5568.
FESTIVAL MEETING Monday, April 15, 2019 at 6:30pm in church hall downstairs
YOUTH PALM FOLDING April 19th at 6pm, all youth (JOY, HOPE, & GOYA) are invited to make Palm Crosses at 6pm. JOY & HOPE will have the opportunity for the sacrament of confession and GOYA will have another gathering with Fr. Anastasios.
HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Our schedule for Holy Week can be found on the back cover of the April Voice, as well as in the Narthex, and on our parish website HTGOC.org and our Google Calendar. Palm Sunday is April 21st and Pascha is April 28th.
HOLY FRIDAY LUMINARY CANDLES Holy Friday this year is April 26, 2019. If you would like to buy Luminaria in Memory of your loved ones, please fill out the form located in the Narthex and give to any GOYA advisor, Goyan, or put it in the office by Holy Wednesday, (April 24). Thank you! Donation of $5.00 for each bag with a maximum of 2 names per bag.
HOLY FRIDAY YOUTH RETREAT All of our youth—JOY/HOPE & GOYA—are invited to come to the Church on Friday April 26th for the Royal Hours service which begins at 9am. Following the service, the children will have an opportunity to explore the Holy Week story of Christ and possibly have opportunities to offer service to our Church to prepare for Pascha! The Retreat will conclude with the Un-Nailing Vepsers, which starts at 3pm. Let Fr. Anastasios know if you need a letter to your child's school about the importance of this holy day and requesting the day be considered an excused absence to be at Church and the retreat.
FOCUS West Central PA is looking for volunteers for their Backpack Feeding Program, which provides weekend food for elementary students, currently in the Beaver Falls School District. 200 Backpacks are packed each Friday from 10AM-11AM, at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1501 8th Avenue Beaver Falls, PA. 15010. Lunch is provided. You may contact Peggy Rusnak, Volunteer Backpack Feeding Program Coordinator, at 412-867-0264 if you would like to be part of this worthwhile ministry! Check our Website- focuswestcentralpa.org to learn more about our programs.