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ONE: NEW BUILDING PROJECT UPDATE
BIG BIG NEWS FROM PARISH PARISH COUNCIL ON FUND RAISING – GOOD NEWS + GOOD PARISH CHALLENGE!
TWO: STV DAY THANK YOU!
What a great 45th Birthday Party we had on Tuesday! Thank you to ALL for making our Second Pascha so wonderful! So many people worked so hard – may the Lord bless you! There will be more press coming soon, but for now, please enjoy the PICTURES FROM THE FEAST.
THREE: A2OCA LOTS HAPPENING! YOU CAN HELP!
We have a BIG push at A2OCA to advertise our preschool offerings for the coming year. YOU CAN HELP! How? By engaging with our social media posts in this regard. Like them. Leave a positive comment. Share them. This helps us a TON. This is called organic engagement and it is the BEST way to spread the word. Plus: tell everyone you know to register their preschool aged child at A2OCA! Here are a few job postings for the upcoming school year too – maybe for you – maybe for a fried – please share:
FULL TIME JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN INSTRUCTOR
FULL OR PART TIME KINDERGARTEN INSTRUCTOR
FOUR: ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACTION AT STV!
As part of our pro-life parish life at STV we are not only working to provide alternatives to abortion for expectant moms, we are also doing what we can to combat modern slavery: human trafficking. Unfortunately the USA is #1 in importing slaves via human trafficking. So that means WE need to be #1 in fighting this evil. We aren’t likely to form a tactical military group and head down to the Mexican border to stop the traffickers there, but at least we can help those who have been trafficked here. Julia McGlone and Bill Edwards are taking the lead for our STV family and will be working to help facilitate our labors to support those who have been trafficked. There is a home for child victims of trafficking here in Michigan. We want to begin to help them. Please talk to Bill or Julia if you would like to get involved. We will be collecting school supplies in this regard beginning this Sunday – a great way for everyone to get involved. There will be a bin at church with the sign above near it. But we also need volunteers to help with maintenance of the shelter, painting, cutting grass, etc. We need to do that at our house (our parish church) too, but we have so many people at STV now! We should be able to help others as well as ourselves. Please help if you can! You WILL strengthen your faith by serving others made in God’s image!
FIVE: GROUND BREAKING IS AUGUST 30!
On Sunday, August 30 our ruling hierarch, Bishop Spyridon, will lead us in prayer. At that Liturgy a Deacon will be ordained for service in Fr. Moses McPherson’s parish in Austin, Texas. And Fr. Moses will join us too! It is going to be a great day, but it doesn’t end with the Liturgy! After the Liturgy we will process to the building site of our new church and hall and perform the blessing of the land and the official ground breaking. DO NOT MISS! Invite friends, loved ones, strangers, even people you don’t really like that much! EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Big parish weekly meal to follow the ground breaking, as always.
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BONUS: STV FINANCIAL AMBASSADORS – BUILDING OUR NEW CHURCH
At our parish meeting on Sunday, February 15, 2026 we made a very exciting decision! We voted to accept a revised design for our parish Church. The parish assembly empowered the parish council to build the church either to the south of the present parish church or to the north of our parking lots (on the festival field) – whichever is most financially advantageous for the parish. We are working hard to figure out that financial question now, and making good progress. But we need to pay for this revised design too. As we said at the meeting – we will pay for this in two ways: EVERYONE tithing, and NAMING OPPORTUNITIES. In the coming weeks our parish Finance Ambassadors (Marina Edwards, Mikhail Fisenkov, Dmitri Knysh) will approach each of our parishioners to discuss how each will give his “mite” to make our project financially strong and successful. That is, how to establish a tithe that works for you. Those conversations will remain anonymous and confidential. When we voted for the original design there was support, but the building fund did not grow in any appreciable way for several months. Thank God – this led us to the revised design! But if we think that SOMEONE ELSE will build OUR new church – we are frankly deluded. WE need to do this. And WE = ALL. Please prayerfully consider how you can support the revised design. Then join the winning team! Leave an Orthodox legacy for your children, grandchildren, and people you do not even know!
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