Starosta's Corner

Volume 3, issue 1
April 2, 2016

(there are fewer than 1,700 words in this installment--read it three minutes a day and you’ll be done by the end of the week)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

First and foremost--an incentive to read this: there is a small piece of information hidden in this installment that you very likely did not know about me before. If you find it please send your answer to me (starosta@stvladimiraami.org) and you will be entered into a drawing to win a $20 gift certificate for an item from the kiosk. There are two other smaller, $5, prizes that will also be drawn for that day. One is for showing me you know what I write should be the first and foremost thing the parish should do if our OARS grow as much in 2016 as they did in 2015. The second $5 drawing will be from the right answers to my wrong math (it isn’t much, but it isn’t right. Helping hint, just copy and paste the tables into an Excel sheet and compare). We’ll do the drawing on Doubting Thomas Sunday, so you have some time.

So, on to the bulk of this quarter’s “Starosta’s corner”

If you are surprised to see this first quarter 2016 issue of “Starosta’s Corner” coming out so shortly after the end of the quarter, imagine how surprised I am. Getting something done on schedule is so out of character for me that I wonder if maybe I shouldn’t just postpone this for a few weeks.

No, I shouldn’t just postpone this for a few weeks. Our parish is tremendously busy and there is every advantage to getting everyone as up to date as possible.

First things first, please keep engaged. Please help get “everyone as up to date as possible.” After services ask your friends if they have read this quarter’s “Starosta’s corner”. If they haven’t, and you have read past this sentence, please share its basic message and suggest your friends read it, too.

This quarter the basic message is just slightly more complex than “please increase your offering.” It is “We are going to take on some debt to ramp up the pace. Please be engaged.”

At the March 6, 2016 annual parish meeting the starosta’s report provided a short list of our 2016 hopes and plans. I’ll copy them here:

http://stvladimiraami.org/pamphlets/starostascorner.pdf