The annual Blessing of the Waters and Holy Cross Celebration at Asbury Park has been cancelled for Sunday, September 16.

SUNDAY SCHOOL -  Sunday School begins next Sunday, September 23.  Registration for the new school year has begun!  Please find the registration table at Fellowship Hour or fill out the registration form in the e-bulletin and submit to Amy Douvris, Bill Panageas, or the church office.  Suggested donation is $35 per family.  Parent volunteers are also welcomed to assist with our Christmas pageant, Lenten programs and other ongoing events. Contact: aimeedouvris@gmail.com  

GREEK SCHOOL -Greek School will begin on Monday, September 24.   Please find the registration table at Fellowship Hour or fill out the registration form in the e-bulletin and submit to Maria Sfondouris or Father Anastasios.  Contact:  msfondouris@gmail.com

OPA- A big OPA! Thank you to all who came to work the festival and a very special thanks again to all the subcommittee heads for your efforts. There were many months of hard work preparing for the 'grand finale' which was the Opa! event itself. "Opa Season" starts in the Spring and officially ends with the event. Securing sponsors, food donors, and vendors were critical to this success. We were blessed with both food and monetary donations to help us manage the cost. We instituted some improvements this year which worked well and will continue to assess our efforts going forward. We are honored that our Opa! has won the "Best Foodie Event" in Hunterdon for the last 3 years and more recently,  it was selected as one of the '10 Best Fall Festivals in NJ' by American Towns Media. These are major achievements. Thank you for your efforts in achieving this success.  Diana Grina, Festival Chair

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We would like to thank all of our parishioners, relatives, and friends who came out last week and during the weekend to help with the preparation and actual OPA event. Although the weather did not cooperate,  we managed to have a fantastic OPA event thanks to you and to all the people who came out in the rain!   Our festival has been now well established and recognized as the festival to go to. Again, Great job and thank you all!

On Saturday October 6, we will hold our Wine and Dine event which was rescheduled from June. This event will be held at the Soteropoulos residence, rain or shine. For any questions, or if you want to participate in the event, please see George Staikos

On Saturday November 17 and 18 (Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine) from 12 pm to 7 pm we will hold the Craft Vendors event,  which is our last event for 2018.  We agreed to hold this event last January to benefit the Church and all the ministries.  We need people to come forward and volunteer their time and talent to support this Craft Vendor event. We are looking for someone to chair the event, and we need all of you to let us know if you know of any vendors who may want to participate. We also need to have people serve food, clean up tables, and clean up after the event, etc.  Sofia Manoussakis (S_Manoussakis@yahoo.com)and Kristen Diagelakis (kristen81081@aol.com)have volunteered to lead the vendors effort. Please contact them if you know of any vendor.  Diana Grina (dianag2003@yahoo.com)is leading the advertising effort. John Kaldes (jskaldes@aol.comand phone 908-764-0220) is the temporary chair, but only until someone else comes forward.  Please see him if you are interested in becoming the Event Chair. Margaret Panageas (MPanageas.mp@gmail.com)  is chairing the food preparation and serving and anything associated with the Philoptohos. We need all of you to make this event successful for our church and ministries!

We anticipate that the iconographer will be back to install the icons in the Dome and the back wall sometime in November.  We have very few icons left, so if you would like to donate towards them, please see the list posted in the bulletin board at the church or contact John Kaldes, Jorge Ferreira or Father Anastasios.  We are looking into the opportunity to offer the receipt of donations towards the stain glass windows in the Dome. There are 8 windows and it would be cost effective to install them while the scaffolding is erected for the Dome iconography.  Further details on donations for the stain glass windows in the Dome will be available in the next few days.

The iconostasion has been completed and is currently being stained. It will be shipped to the broker in Piraeus the following week, and we expect it here in the US sometime in late October or early November. We will try to the shipment expedite through customs, and hope to have it erected in our church no later than the end of October.

We are pleased to announce that we have a new Greek School teacher this year, Zoe Sofiadou.  Registration has started and if you have any questions please see Maria Sfondouris, our new Greek School Director (msfondouris@gmail.com).We have enhanced our Greek School Program and hope that more of our parishioners will bring their children to Greek School!

Aimee Douvris is our new Director of the Sunday School Program (aimeedouvris@gmail.com). Any help you can provide to her in support of this very important program to our community will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again for all your support and let us know if you have any questions.

 John Kaldes

Fellowship Hour:  There is no official Fellowship Hour Sponsorship through September 16, but you can contact John Giannouris at (610) 680-7507 or john.giannouris@comcast.netif you are interested in sponsoring Fellowship Hour in the summer months or this fall. Thank you

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