TODAY Sunday School students will stay in church while the parents leave to attend a brief parent Sunday School meeting in the classrooms. Fr. Anastasios will speak to the students in church and dismiss them for class at about 10:45 am. Classes will all dismiss at 1130 am.
Church Calendar:
Thursday, October 18 - St. Luke - Orthros / Divine Liturgy, 9 am
Friday, October 19 - Vigil Service for St. Gerasimos, 9 pm to 12:30 am
A vigil service is a combination of many services including Great Vespers, Orthros and Divine Liturgy typically starting in the late evening and ending after midnight. All are invited to this special celebration as we honor the memory of St. Gerasimos, whose sacred relics remain incorrupt for veneration and sanctification on the island of Cephalonia (+1570).
Friday, October 26 - St. Demetrios - Orthros / Divine Liturgy, 8 am (new time)
Thursday, November 1 – Sts. Cosmas and Damianos - Orthros / Divine Liturgy, 9 am
Sunday, November 4 – Fall General Assembly
Adult Bible Study - Fridays at 12 pm. We hope to make this a weekly gathering for about an hour each week. Please let Fr. A know if you are interested. All are welcome. Please bring your Bible.
Adult Choir Meeting: TODAY, October 14 at 11:30 am. Fr. A is inviting all adults that are interested in joining the choir to meet and discuss this ministry. This is a follow up to the Sat., Sept. 15 Choir Kick-Off Meeting which also included the youth.
Sunday School: TODAY Sunday School students will stay in church while the parents leave to attend a brief parent Sunday School meeting in the classrooms. Fr. Anastasios will speak to the students in church and dismiss them for class at about 10:45 am. Classes will all dismiss at 1130 am.
Greek School -Anyone interested in an adult Greek class should contact Maria Sfondouris or Father Anastasios with their interest and possible day of the week to hold classes. We welcome all new students! Contact: msfondouris@gmail.com
Philoptochos: General meeting on Sunday, October 28at 11:15 am after church in a Sunday school classroom.
PC Corner: On Sunday November 4 we have our Fall General Assembly. This will take place after church at our Mr & Mrs Bouras Memorial Hall after coffee hour. The GA is the forum where every steward can engage with the PC members and be informed about the life of our church, review and approve the 2019 budget, participate in the elections and learn about the activities of our ministries
Our first Vendors day event will take place on Saturday November 17 and Sunday November 18. We need everyone to participate and make this event successful. It is our first event but we expect a large number of people to visit our event therefore we will need all of you to assist us with preparation, serving, cleaning, etc. See contacts below:
Vendors: 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 vendors who might like to participate.
Advertising: Diana Grina (dianag2003@yahoo.com)is leading the advertising effort.
Food preparation and serving: Margaret Panageas (MPanageas.mp@gmail.com) is chairing the food preparation and serving and anything associated with the Philoptohos
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. We need all of you to make this event successful for our church and ministries!
The Iconography is progressing well. We expect to have the scaffolding installed the last week of October and start the iconography on the back wall and on the Dome. In addition we have received a large donation for the glass partitions and this helps with the overall iconography program. The lettering "SAINT ANNA GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH" is completed in the front of the church around the first arch.
The Iconostasion is on the ship and we expect it to arrive some time around 24-25 of October in NYC harbor. We do not know how long it will take to clear US Customs but we have provided every possible document and he have hired a customs broker to help us. After it clears Customs we will schedule the arrival of the Wood Carver from Greece to do the installation. We expect that the iconostasion should be installed sometime in the second half of November. It should be a 3-5 day installation
EMAILS. We are working to improve our email delivery system and ensure that everyone receives our notices and bulletins. In a recent review we noticed that some emails bounce back therefore some of you are not getting the information we sent out. We noticed that some of you have changed emails but we have not received the change and therefore we can't fix the issue. Please make an effort in the next few weekends to let us know if you do not receive email information from the church and or if you have changed your email. This way we can update our system.
Fellowship Hour: Contact John Giannouris at (610) 680-7507 or john.giannouris@comcast.netif you are interested in sponsoring Fellowship Hour. Thank you.