CHURCH NEWS
PALM SUNDAY FISH LUNCHEON Join us Sunday following the Divine Liturgy for the celebration of Palm Sunday. Our GOYAns will be serving the meal.
DECORATING FOR PASCHA We are looking for more “hands on deck” to help with the decorating of the Church for Pascha. Calling all parishioners with an eye for design, art, or can just offer a hand. Please see Fr. Anastasios or Paulette Wilson for more information.
SUNDAY: PICK UP & LAST CALL FOR TSOUREKI AND KOULOURAKIA Hellenic Dancers orders of Tsoureki and Koulourakia are available for pickup and some are available for purchase today. Please pick up your order from Harriet Sickles Sunday!
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 this Wednesday, 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.
BRIGHT WEEK SERVICES In celebration of the week following Pascha, special services are done in the same joy of Pascha. Join us Tuesday 4/30 and Friday 5/3 at 9:30am for Resurrectional Orthros and 10am for Resurrectional Divine Liturgy.
ORTHODOXY 101 CLASS Wedensday, May 1, 2019 at 7:30-9pm following we will be meeting for our fifith class in which we will continue our discussion on the Divine Liturgy. All are welcome, even if you missed the other classes.