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ONE: YOUTH GROUPS MEET THIS SUNDAY
All our Youth Groups meet this coming Sunday! Please note that the 9-12 year old group and the teen group will meet AT THE CHURCH RIGHT AFTER THE PARISH MEAL. We will make food for our Christmas Bake Sale. The proceeds from that bake sale help us build the new church. That helps us bring people to Christ. And thus we see that our young people will be laboring for God’s glory as they bake this Sunday! Our Young Adult Group meets at Fr. Gregory’s house at 6:00 p.m. as usual.
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TWO: STEWARDSHIP EDUCATION COMMUNICATION
At the Parish Council meeting on March 11, 2017 a Stewardship Education Team was appointed by the Parish Council consisting of Fr. Gregory, Jack (Alexey) Mitchell as Starosta (now Brendan Hayden), and Leta (Ksenia) Nikulshina. The charge of this team is to provide our parish family with educational information about stewardship. In this regard, we intend to send out an email and post on our parish web site a quarterly communication in preparation for a quarterly parish finance report out.
Please find the quarterly communication at the link below. Please feel free to contact any of us, or any of the Parish Council members, with questions at any time. Or, if you prefer, use the second link below to ask a question or make a comment anonymously.
WE HAD A MEETING ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2026 DURING THE PARISH MEAL TO DISCUSS THIS COMMUNICATION
We thank you sincerely for your generous support of our parish! And we look forward to hearing from you at your convenience regarding this information.
We didn’t include a letter with this communication - just the data. So we provide this small narrative here to help decode a bit of the reality of the data:
ONE - In order to cover a $1.5MM loan we need about $13,000 per month.
TWO - Our Treasurer notes that we have about $10,000 per month to dedicate to this payment.
THREE - in order to garner $3,000 per month we would need ten of our giving units (family or single home) to give $300 more per month, or about $10/day. Or we need ten NEW giving units (people who have not established a recurring donation) to give $10/day. Please think about how YOU could help.
FOUR - Not everyone is fulfilling the pledges they made for the building project. Surely everyone WANTS to fulfill their pledge, but if you circumstances have changed, please talk to our Treasurer, Mikhail Fisenkov. This will help us to better understand the reality of our financial situation and manage accordingly. For those whose financial circumstances have not change, but you have not fulfilled your pledge, this is a reminder.
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With Love in our Lord Jesus Christ,
Fr. Gregory, Brendan, Leta
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THREE: NOVEMBER WORK DAY IS SUNDAY THE 15TH
Brotherhood, Sisterhood, Clergy, Choir – EVERYONE! We all need to chip in an take care of the property the Lord has given to us, just as we all need to work together to execute our beautiful Divine Services. Please plan to join us to pitch in as we make our parish shine as the House of God that it is! Invite friends! Everyone is welcome! And it just isn’t fair to expect that “someone else” will do this. We all own our parish in that the Lord has given us to be here, and for the responsibility that He has given us to care for His House. SEE YOU ON NOVEMBER 15!
FOUR: ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS FOR LIFE AT STV!
Our young people have established an Orthodox Christians for Life (OCL) chapter at STV! How often we talk about the need for the next generation to begin to step into leadership positions in our parish - and here is a great example of that! Three times per year the Holy Church commemorates conception,m thus teaching us that from the Orthodox point of view life begins at conception:
April 7: The Annunciation (Conception of Christ)
October 6: Conception of St. John the Baptist
December 22: Conception of the Theotokos
The Sunday following each of these feasts our OCL chapter will hold an event like a diaper drive, or a lecture, or something of the sort to remind us that the Church teaches us - not just in the abstract, but through the Divine Services - that life begins at conception. If the Church teaches us this as something important enough to be commemorated three times per year in the Divine Services, then this is a call to action. And our young people will lead that action! Be sure to support their efforts, and be sure to ask one of our priests if you have questions about the Church’s teaching in this regard. To be clear, this is about life in the womb, but this is also about “assisted suicide”, which the western world is embracing radically. Already more than 100,000 Canadians have been killed in this way. We are for life both at the beginning and end of life, and we have to be ready to be against the world in this regard. We thank our young people for being willing to lead us in this important struggle!
TIME SENSITIVE: OCL has an ESSAY CONTEST
FIVE: LOTS HAPPENING AT STV - NOT ONLY DIVINE SERVICES
Please note the following - and please join us!
OCTOBER 31: HALLOWEEN ALTERNATIVE (VESPERS 5 P.M., MATINS 7 P.M.)
NOVEMBER 1: ALL YOUTH GROUPS MEET
NOVEMBER 5: YOUNG FAMILY DINNER GROUP
NOVEMBER 7: PANNYKHIDA FOR ARCHBISHOP PETER AND KONSTANTIN POPLAVSKY 5:00 P.M.
NOVEMBER 8: MEMORIAL MEAL FOR ARCHBISHOP PETER AND KONSTANTIN POPLAVSKY
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