Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
May 26, 2019
Councilors: John Constantelos*, Harry Kaffenes, Jim Riley, Marina Avramidis
Altar Group: St. Basil the Great
Ambassadors: Margarita Anayiotes, David Kouba
No Sunday School
New members or visitors, please stop by the Welcome Table across from the candlestand.
Orthros and The Divine Liturgy are broadcast live online each week
AXIOS TO THE NEWLY ORDAINED DEACON ALEX KAMILARIS
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AWARD WINNERS!
Stephanie Starr
Sydney Langford
GRADUATION SUNDAY IS JUNE 2nd
If you or your loved ones are graduating from High School, College, or Graduate School please fill out a form found on the candle stand and submit it to the Church Office.
Also please let us know if your child will be attending!
Deadline for submissions is this Monday May 27th.
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY IS JUNE 9TH
Congratulations to the students that were awarded the Scholarships given by our parish families. The Scholarships will be awarded on Scholarship Sunday, June 9.
PHILOPTOCHOS NEWS
Christos Anesti!
ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!! We are asking for our members to step up and “adopt a month”. Each month’s group will provide a day’s lunch {25 meals} for the ladies at the Women’s Shelter. This would require the group to prepare the meals for lunch the night before. You can fix bag lunches, purchase items for lunch (i.e. potato salad, rotisserie chicken, rolls, etc.), or pick up some pizzas for these women who have fallen on hard times. We have made a great start in our 1.5 million meals with the Rise Against Hunger event, but we need to continue our outreach in our community. Please contact Rhonda Milkovich at remilkovich@gmail.com to reserve your month.
CCCM INVITES ALL
Everyone is invited to join us on May 26th in the library after Divine Liturgy for a meeting in which we will be discussing plans for the completion of the Church garden, relevant speakers to address the Church community, large-scale composting, and other environmental issues affecting our community. Anyone interested in listening to CCCM's plans and/or providing input is urged to attend
Greek Festival 2019 Volunteer Kickoff Luncheon
Sunday June 2nd
Please join us for the 2019 Greek Festival volunteer kickoff luncheon after services on Sunday June 2nd.
We offer this free luncheon to thank everyone who volunteered last year and start signing up volunteers for this September! Due to the continued growth in attendance we need to sign up even more volunteers. We are asking for college groups or corporations to consider sending a team to work a couple of three hour shifts as part of their community service and to support all the wonderful organizations that benefit from the Festival.
If interested, please contact Stacey Armistead or Dori Riley at stacey.armistead@duke.edu or dori.riley@gmail.com for more details
Festival Program Advertisement & Sponsorship Opportunities
As you know, we are gearing up for our 38th Annual Greek Festival on September 6-8. Again this year, we will have a Festival Program for all guests. The Program has many advertising and sponsorship options and has been a great source of income for our festival. This is a great opportunity to advertise your business as our festival has up to 20,000 attendees each year. You can also purchase space in our Program to honor a friend or family member, memorialize a departed loved one or just wish us a successful festival.
Do you know a business owner who may want their business featured in our Program that will be seen by over 20,000 festival attendees? Sponsorship forms are available at the candle stand and a table will be set up in the fellowship hall with information on our advertising and sponsorship opportunities.
The deadline for sponsorships and ads is July 15th so act now!
2019 STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN UPDATE
We are SO CLOSE! We are at 78% of our budget goal for the year. EVERY PLEDGE COUNTS AT THIS CRITICAL TIME! Thank you to those of you who have done your part by pledging this year. We will have the pleasure of enjoying some new summer stewardship presenters in the coming weeks – stay tuned!!!
Please don’t forget to submit your stewardship commitment for 2019.
If you have not yet turned in your pledge, please do so via one of the methods listed below at your earliest convenience.
*Website / Online Giving: http://www.holytrinityraleigh.org/ministries/stewardship-ministry/online-giving
*Place stewardship form in the Narthax Stewardship Form Drop Box
*Give stewardship form to a Parish Council Member
Take stewardship form to the Church Front Office
*Mail stewardship form to the Church:
5000 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, NC 27612 (Attn: Church Office)
If you have any questions, please contact Stewardship Co-Chairs:
Angela Georgallis (acgeorgallis@gmail.com / 919-339-3169)
George Georgallis (ggeorgallis@hotmail.com / 773-251-8127)
KITCHEN MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
The Kitchen Management Committee met to establish guidelines to ensure proper use and cleaning of our kitchen and equipment. Each organization/individual who uses the kitchen for ministry use, meetings, coffee hour, etc will be asked to designate a point of contact. This individual will receive detailed instructions for how each area of the kitchen should be cleaned. For your convenience a checklist will be provided and should be completed and returned to the office. All use of the kitchen should be scheduled through the office and included on the church calendar. If you are interested in joining our committee, please contact Mary Wehbie at maryellen.wehbie@gmail.com. Thank you for helping us maintain a safe and clean kitchen!
AXIOS! ARCHBISHOP-ELECT ELPIDOPHOROS
Let us join together in welcoming Archbishop-elect Elpidophoros!
Axios! Archbishop-elect Elpidophoros
“His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America”
On May 11, 2019 the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected Metropolitan ELPIDOPHOROS of Bursa to be the Archbishop of America.
Please refer to these links for additional information regarding His Eminence, that will be useful for your websites:
NURSERY HAS LIVESTREAM
Parents of little ones, please keep in mind, when your little one is unhappy, our Nursery is available and has a big screen TV where you can continue to view the Liturgy until you’re ready to return.
This Week at Holy Trinit
SUN MAY 26TH
SUNDAY OF THE SAMARITAN WOMAN
8:30AM: ORTHROS
10:00AM: LITURGY
11:30AM: COFFEE HOUR– CAPETANOS FAMILY
12:00PM: CCCM (L)
HELLENIC DANCE
12:30PM: YOUTH B (FH)
1:00PM: YOUTH A (MP)
1:30PM: TEENS (FH)
MON MAY 27TH
MEMORIAL DAY- OFFICE CLOSED
TUES MAY 28TH
7:00PM: ADULT GREEK DANCE
THURS MAY 30TH
7:00AM: MEN’S GROUP
9:15AM: WOMEN’S GROUP
FRI MAY 31ST
5:30PM: FELLOWSHIP HALL RENTAL
SAT JUNE 1ST
3:00PM: WEDDING– TAYLOR/MOTT
SUN JUNE 2ND
SUNDAY OF THE BLIND MAN
GRADUATION SUNDAY
8:30AM: ORTHROS
10:00AM: LITURGY
CHILDREN’S CHANGE FOR CHANGE
11:30AM: FESTIVAL VOLUNTEER LUNCHEON
12:30PM: ST. ANTHONY’S GROUP (L)
1:00PM: BOYS BASKETBALL