Our festival begins today at 11:00 a.m. and runs through 8:00 p.m. tonight. Tomorrow we begin at 1:00 p.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. Please join us! And if you'd like to join us for the Divine Services you are welcome! Vespers tonight is at 6:00 p.m. and Divine Liturgy tomorrow is set for 9:00 a.m.

See you at the festival!

Festival Web Site:

http://russianfestival.stvladimiraami.org/

The third annual Russian Festival is tomorrow and Sunday on the festival grounds - please join us! Invite friends, relatives, work colleagues, even people you don't really like that much! :) Invite everyone! To learn more, please see our festival web site:

http://russianfestival.stvladimiraami.org/

Church School begins this year on Saturday, September 26. Click on the link below to see why you should register your child immediately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vspDTcLQvOo

To register, please visit this Google doc:

http://goo.gl/forms/BVWIlgDJ9y

Our Adult Group monthly meeting has been changed from Monday, September 28 to TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 at 8:00 p.m. at the Obertas Family home. We have a special guest for this meeting: Priest Vladimir Klimzo from Davydovo, Russia. Fr. Vladimir will discuss his ministry to special needs children and adults, and the summer camp that he has to support this ministry in the village of Davydovo. Several of our parishioners helped at the camp this summer - we hope that they too will join us to discuss their experience there. Register for this event at the link below. Thank you for registering - it helps us to prepare the correct amount of food!

http://goo.gl/forms/pSBdd7cQlF

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Peter we have recently built a memorial to soldiers and sailors who died in battle in the area directly across from our bell tower. The feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, commemorated each year on September 11 (yes – the same day as the terrorist attack on the United States), is the day that the Orthodox Church commemorates fallen soldiers and sailors. On this day (Friday of this week) we held Liturgy and immediately afterwards blessed the memorial. Please stop by soon and have a look – and say a prayer for the departed. There are very few of us who do not have someone in our family who died in battle, and this memorial is for them. We thought it appropriate to execute this project this year on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Thank you to all who made this beautiful memorial possible!

It is time now to volunteer for this September's Festival! The Festival will be here before you know it, and as our biggest missionary effort of the year we need all hands on deck to help make it a huge success! At the Festival we have many guests who learn about our parish and Orthodox Christianity for the first time. We are all missionaries in our community – sign up now to work at the festival! Is it hard work? You bet it is! Is it fun? You bet it is!!! Don't miss it! Sign up today!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LiLL9esKU3ZpsV8NZZXRPdIui7gu93Q-Kr1z5y6dGHg/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Our festival flyers are available now! Please print and distribute to all your friends, loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, and everyone you know! OR - save to your computer and email to everyone you know. They will be happy to receive the good news about our festival and no doubt will want to join us!

One-page:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/a2russ ... al2015.pdf

Two flyers per page:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/a2russ ... 15-2up.pdf

Please note that we have changed the Liturgy and Vigil schemas to correspond to the TONE OF THE WEEK rather than the # of weeks after Pascha or Pentecost. This is a very minor change, but makes keeping track of this easier for the choir and readers. The new schemas have been posted on our web site:

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

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

It is time now to volunteer for this September's Festival! The Festival will be here before you know it, and as our biggest missionary effort of the year we need all hands on deck to help make it a huge success! At the Festival we have many guests who learn about our parish and Orthodox Christianity for the first time. We are all missionaries in our community – sign up now to work at the festival! Is it hard work? You bet it is! Is it fun? You bet it is!!! Don't miss it! Sign up today!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LiLL9esKU3ZpsV8NZZXRPdIui7gu93Q-Kr1z5y6dGHg/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Our festival flyers are available now! Please print and distribute to all your friends, loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, and everyone you know! OR - save to your computer and email to everyone you know. They will be happy to receive the good news about our festival and no doubt will want to join us!

One-page:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/a2russ ... al2015.pdf

Two flyers per page:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/a2russ ... 15-2up.pdf