The date of the 2015 Annual Parish Assembly has been set for March 6, 2016. To participate in the meeting via voting or running for parish office one must be a member of the parish. To become a member of our parish please contact one of our membership coordinators: Vasiliy Krivtsov (vasiliy.krivtsov@gmail.com or 734-669-8712) or Dmitry Knysh (dmitriknysh@hotmail.com or 734-358-5996). We cordially invite you to join our parish family!

The letter calling the meeting, the agenda, and the addendum to the agenda can be found at the link below:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/annualmeeting2016.pdf

We ask all to review this information before the meeting. We look forward to seeing you on March 6!

P.S. Please note - our Sisterhood's annual Blini Dinner will also be on March 6. Please join us for blini and our annual meeting!

Each year following the feast of the Theophany (the Lord’s Baptism – January 19) it is a traditional and pious custom to have one’s home blessed by the priest. Homes are blessed at St. Vladimir’s until the beginning of Great Lent. Please consult the link below to see the times available for house blessings. Please contact Fr. Gregory to schedule a house blessing or if the times listed do not work for you. If you live far from St. Vladimir’s please consult with those other parishioners of St. Vladimir’s who live near you so that you can all have your homes blessed on the same evening. Congratulations to all with the feast of our Lord’s Baptism!

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/houseblessing2016.pdf

Today marks the beginning of the last week in which we eat meat before Great Lent begins. We do not provide this announcement to promote gluttony, but rather, to alert you to use the remainder of the meat products in your home this week, and if you cannot, to freeze the rest to save them for after Pascha. Next week we will do the same with dairy products - use them up so that they are not wasted when we begin Great Lent on March 14. Please contact Fr. Gregory with questions about fasting, or any aspect of Orthodox life.

This year Youth Choir will be held each Saturday at 4:00 p.m. at the church. Altar Server training will take place the first Sunday of the month after the Divine Liturgy. Young boys who are six and above are welcome to participate in the Altar Server Training. Please see Subdeacon John Zroika or Fr. Gregory to assure that your child participates. Generally young boys begin to serve in the altar at about seven years of age (or whenever they begin to confess regularly).

As of 5:30 PM no one has signed up for the Adult Group meeting this evening. Therefore we will cancel tonight's meeting. Thank you for your understanding.

We have started a new blog to allow our parish family to discuss spiritual issues. All are encouraged to read and participate in the blog! You can find the first few posts here:

http://blogtushka.blogspot.com/

Please join us!

His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah will visit St. Vladimir's Saturday and Sunday February 27 and 28 with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Peter, Administrator of our Diocese. Vigil on February 27 will begin at 5:00 p.m. with Divine Liturgy on February 28 at 9:00 a.m. Please make plans now to join us for the Divine Services and please stay after the Liturgy on Sunday for a banquet in the Metropolitan's honor at which he will give the inaugural lecture for our 2016 Great Lenten Lecture Series. We look forward in your participation in what is sure to be a great weekend at St. Vladimir's!

Flier about the Metropolitan's visit to share:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/bishopvisitsflyer.pdf

Please join us for our monthly meeting of our Adult Discussion Group on Friday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m. at Fr. Gregory's home in Saline. More information and RSVP is here:

http://goo.gl/forms/Lg2TK1QSwr

We hope to see you Friday evening!

The akathist and the festival meeting tonight are cancelled at Saint Vladimir's. The roads are simply not safe to travel on and there is little hope that they will be by the time the evening activities were have to begun. Thank you for your understanding!

We have begun our 2016 festival meetings and you - YES YOU - are invited! Please join us every Wednesday after the akathist. The akathist begins at 6:00 p.m. and the festival meeting about 7:00 p.m. Last year's festival was great - pitch in now to make this year's even better! Contact our Starosta, Nathan Longan, for more information.