In place of adult discussion groups this year we will hold regular “Ask the Priest” sessions via Facebook Live. All are urged to participate in these sessions, which will be advertised via Facebook and our web site the day of the event. Mark your calendars now for 7:00 p.m. on the following dates:

September 7
September 21
October 5
October 19
November 2
November 16
November 30
December 14
December 28 – Live from St. Herman's Conference

Those who would like to participate as a live (as opposed to virtual) audience are welcome to join us at St. Vladimir's at 7:00 p.m. (immediately following the weekly Wednesday akathist for the ill).

Join us on Facebook! Join us live at St. Vladimir's! Submit questions via Facebook! Submit questions live and in person! Submit questions via Twitter (@stvladimiraami) or by emailing info@stvladimiraami.org. If you can't join us live, watch the video of the session on our Facebook page after the fact. Please help us make this a fruitful opportunity for spiritual growth for our parish family - “Ask the Priest” only works well if you ask questions. :) If you have a question you can be certain that someone else does too – so please do ask!

The Holy Church provides us the first of the 12 Great Feasts of the year tomorrow, September 8/21: the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God! Please join us at St. Vladimir's this evening for Vigil at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow morning for Divine Liturgy at 8:00 a.m. Congratulations to all with the feast!

Please join us for our first monthly meal of the academic year this Sunday at 6:00 p.m. The topic will be “Getting Started Right – the Church New Year – OR – September is Trying to Kill Me!”. Please join us! RSVP and more information:

http://goo.gl/forms/mLnbeYwCXq

P.S. INVITE FRIENDS! We are happy to have anyone join us who can – we just need to know you are coming so we have enough food!

If you placed festival road signs out before the festival we thank you – this helped get the word out A LOT! But please, take a moment on the way home from work this evening, or as you are running errands during the day, to pick up the signs. Promptly doing so is very appreciated by local municipalities and just makes our reputation, so bolstered by the festival itself, even better!

You say you haven't made it to EVERY Divine Service and every lecture!? Do not be disturbed! Neither has anyone else to be honest. And that is OK! We do not expect every person to attend every Divine Service or every lecture or every anything. Rather, we try to have many services and activities so that everyone can attend at least some of the services and activities. But those you have missed you can find on our Sound of the Parish blog. This makes wonderful spiritual musical background for your office during the work day too. The link is here:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com

Please take a moment to sign up for email updates on the right side of the browser window of the blog. That way each time we post a new sound file you will be alerted via email. Those who follow us on Twitter will also receive a notification of each posted file. Please join us on "Sound of the Parish"!

www.annarborrussianfestival.org

JOIN US!

SPREAD THE WORD!!

Find and share the flyer here as a PDF:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/russia ... al2016.pdf

Find it here as a 2-up/page flyer that would fit really nicely in all the mailboxes in your office - or in other smaller spaces. :)

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/russia ... 6twoup.pdf

Please note the times for the Divine Services this weekend. Please also note that Konevets Quartet will sing both Vespers and the Divine Liturgy on the weekend. Please join us! And stay to work at the festival!

See Videos of Konevets Quartet below - but beware - if you watch these you will not be able to miss church this weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w840sq8BuPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfFSsX1IC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pKdr0XtNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LXtKMYZnXQ

This year again Russian with Love, an organization of which our parish is an active member, will be hosting four medical burn staff from Russia. We are working closely with the University Trauma Burn Unit on this project. Our most important job is to providing housing for the 4 staff members coming from Russia. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help. We would like to provide a stable place for these folks to stay, so if you could host them for their whole stay that would be ideal. But if that isn’t possible that is fine too. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help in any way!

Please find our 2016 Fall Youth Group schedule at the following link:

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

WE NEED HELP! We have lots of groups, but in order to provide some sanity to Fr. Gregory's life (not too much sanity - just some) we are scheduling the Youth Group meetings on the same day for all three groups. That provides a free Sunday afternoon or two for him and his family each month. But if we are going to make this work we need volunteers to help us with the groups. Please volunteer by contacting Fr. Gregory today!

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Indiction - the Church New Year. Please join us at St. Vladimir's for the Divine Services tonight at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. Happy Church New Year to all!