* Please join us after the Liturgy for coffee hour in the Parish Home. This week’s coffee hour is sponsored by team White. Thank You!

* GOYA Fall Retreat—www.youth.denver.goarch.org/ to register.

* Weddings, Baptisms, Memorials, Christenings—please send a note to the office at least one month in advance to reserve the date. Thank you.

* Kitchen Fundraiser Project—our ladies are taking a stand to make the kitchen in the parish home more functional to allow for more fundraising support for our church (Greek Festival, bake sale, catering, etc).

* Adult Greek School is moving to an earlier time on Wednesday, now beginning at 6:30pm.

* The PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation has released the 2018/19 scholarship application on today October 1^st. The Foundation will accept applications from eligible Greek American college students through January 31, 2019, and will distribute $250,000 in scholarship awards to exceptional undergraduates as follows:

Twenty (20) Awards of $10,000 each based on academic merit and financial need. Twenty (20) Awards of $2,500 each based solely on academic achievement
Undergraduate students of Hellenic descent from all fifty states are encouraged to apply. Applications should be submitted electronically as instructed by January 31, 2019. 
For more information, go to https://www.panhellenicsf.org/

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 Ways to Support our church through everyday purchases:

Kroger Community Rewards makes fund-raising easy..all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Plus Card!  Just sign in to your Kroger account and click on community rewards. Our Church Organization number is UF318

 

 We are now listed as a charitable organization on Amazon!

Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to our church. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.

This link will take you directly to our church listing on smile.amazon.com so you won’t have to search for our name amongst the almost a million other organizations. Additionally, the links and banner are posted on our church website.

https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0424472

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 In Our Prayers

Eric Richards, Howard Hoover (Lou’s friend), Sheila (Michael Savage’s sister), Robert Finch, Abigail Robertson, Alice Marinos, Colette Quinn, Eugenia (Dimitri’s cousin), Eleni Safos (Maria's cousin), Gherghina, Vish, Mihaela and Dorin, Robert and Keng (friends of Andreea D.), Evangelia Mourtakos, Kathi and Niko Parris (Phyllis’s daughter and grandson), Nuvia Murillo (Irma’s sister/Athena’s Aunt), Juliana and Nicole (Creighton's mother and daughter).

The servants of God Costas Hatzisavvas (Cali & Rety’s father), Evgenia Kirkou (Deena’s mother), Marisa Lewis-Mateo (Creighton’s cousin), and Anna Lewis (Evangelia's sister and Callie Suniga's Aunt). May their memory be eternal.

GOYA FALL RETREAT

The 2018 Southern Fall Retreat will be held November 2-4 at the Lake Tomahawk Retreat Center in Livingston, Texas. Youth, ages 11 - 18 years, are invited to retreat away from the pressures and the hustle of every day life. 

The registration fee for this event is $125 per participant. Registration is open from October 5 through October 26, 2018.

Register at the following link: https://youth.denver.goarch.org/regional-retreats

Coffee Hour

The Coffee Hour program continues to be very successful!  This program ensures that we have coffee and after-Liturgy refreshments, not only for our Parishioners, but also as hospitality to our guests. The Coffee Hour can be the very important first contact for new members to our community, as well as an important fellowship time for all of our existing members. 

With this program, everyone who is a member gets the experience of hosting a Coffee Hour without the burden of doing it alone. It also provides a forum for the group of members each week to coordinate, work together and get to know one another better. It really can be a lot of fun!

Help support our coffee hour by adding your name to one of the teams listed below. Teams are called upon every 8 weeks or so, and each team member only has to bring one or two items. Email the office to add your name.

Parishioners, please allow only coffee hour team members to park in the driveway so they can have easier unloading access.

Yellow: Ashley, L. Rigas, A. & K. Tambourides 
Orange: Gazis, Marinos, Sokol, Suniga 
Purple: Agler, Loveless, McFalls, Richards, Savage 
Green: Metaxas, Saphos, Zachariades
White: Lyashman, Partlow, Ely, Mourtakos
Red: Gazaw, Padilla, Hammock, M. Tambourides, Zacharias 
Blue: Patelis, Rapos, Simeon, Yunakov 
Pink: Craioveanu, Quinn, Tsougarakis

Oct 21: White
Oct 28: AHEPA
Nov 4:  Red
Nov 11: Blue
Nov 18: Pink
Nov 25: Yellow

Parish Council Nominations

 How can you use your talents to help our church grow and to help others grow in their faith?

Among the duties of a Parish Council member are:

Property maintenance, financial management, long range planning, educational programs and fellowship activities of the parish.

A Parish Council member attends Church, attends meetings, helps out on events. To be a good council member requires a lot of time, work, enthusiasm, and interest. This could also be the most spiritually rewarding volunteer position you will ever hold with the parish.

Please contact Fr. Florin or Eric Richards for more information.

 

PHILOPTOCHOS

Our ladies are taking a stand to make the kitchen in the parish home more functional to allow for more efficient fundraising support for our church (greek festival, bake sale, christmas/easter breads, catering, etc). Plans are in process to convert the gar

age into the new kitchen. It is a big effort and we know our awesome Philoptochos is up to the challenge. We have enough funds to complete the conversion, but are running short of equipping the new space with suitable appliances. Please consider making a donation to our Philoptochos so we can have these appliances ready to install in time for our Christmas bake sale. Items needed are:

·     New oven and vent hood: $3,170

·     Air Condition system: $4,000

·     Sink: $438

·     Stainless steel tables: $3

·     Kitchen Faucet: $119

·     Mop sink: $280

Any size donation would be gratefully accepted, and are tax deductible. May God bless all of us and the remodeling effort, so that we can have a kitchen we can work in and put to good use. 

DONATE

 

Introduction to Orthodoxy Class

The course is broken into 8 weekly sessions of approximately 2 hours each.  The seminars are open to catechumens and anyone who wishes to learn more about the Holy Orthodox Church. Upcoming sessions:

Session 5: Topics - Church History (The early church); The Ecumenical Councils; The Great Schism; The Crusades

Session 6: Topics - Developments in East and West; Orthodoxy in America; Persectuion in the Modern Church

Session 7: Topics - Spirituality; The Beatitudes; The Great Virtue of Love; Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving

Session 8: Topics - Sexuality; Marriage and Family; Sickness, Suffering & Death; The Kingdom of Heaven; Holy Week

For more information, see Michael or Angela Loveless

 

Sunday Church School

We will have Sunday School immediately after communion. We invite all youth present from Pre-K to Senior High to join us in activities to grow as Orthodox Christians and prepare for our Oxi Day program. We ask parents to bring their children on the 28th for our St John’s celebration of this important day in Greek history. 

 

Church School Registration Forms are available in the Narthex and online.

  

Narthex Rotation Schedule

We are looking for volunteers to help with this Ministry. This is first contact with parishioners and/or guests visiting us for the first time.  You do not need to be on Parish Council to volunteer for this ministry. A smile and gentle demeanor goes a long way in welcoming a newcomer to our church. Please contact the office to volunteer.

Oct 21     Demetrios Mourtakos, Maria Simeon

Oct 28     Bill Gazis

Nov 4      Eric Richards

Nov 11    Demetrios Mourtakos, Eric Richards

Nov 18    Ross Leo, Demetrios Mourtakos

Nov 25    Michael Savage, Ross Leo

Dec 2      Georgios Rigas, Michael Savage

Dec 9      Maria Simeon, Georgios Rigas

 

Prosforo 

Of the many ways of supporting our Church, there are few which stand out as uniquely personal offerings of faith. The offering of Prosforo bread for the Divine Liturgy is one of them. We are thankful to the handful of ladies who have faithfully fulfilled this responsibility over the years and we invite more of our faithful - especially young families with children - to make this a part of their lives as well. Want to be added to our Prosforo list? Please see Maria Simeon.

Please make sure that Prosforo is in church before the start of the Orthros service on Sunday. Please write the date (or put a sticker with the date) on the plastic bags with the Prosforo. That way the oldest will be used first. Thank you for your help.

Oct 21  Ellie Ashley Oct 28  Soula Koumbias Nov 4   Metaxas Family Nov 11 Maria Saphos Nov 18 Cleopatra Nelson Nov 25 Helen Gazaw

Dec 2   Evangelia Gazis Dec 9   Kika Tampouridou Dec 16 McFalls Family Dec 23  Maria Simeon Dec 30  Zaneta Rapos

 

Bookstore/Gift Shop

Featured This Week

 

Frankincense, gold musk, and myrrh incense, approximately 1 ounce package   Format: Gift / Liturgical Item Dimensions: 2 X 3 inch zip close poly bag.

See Colette at the coffee hour!