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THIS WEEK’S PARISH BULLETINS ENGLISH + ÐÓÑÑÊÈÉ
SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES AT STV
ONE: NEW CHURCH BUILDING: SPECIFIC ACTION FOR ALL BY 12/17/25
Many have asked: “exactly what are we to do now – now that we have decided to build?”. The first thing must be, as always, to pray! If the Lord is for us then no one can be against us. But we need to pray AND work. And how we will practically (and very spiritually) get to success (and why we need to shoot to accomplish the first step by 12/17/25) can be found at this BLOGTUSHKA POST.
And… that didn’t work. At all. Very few people embraced tithing. You don’t have to do what we say. You have free will. :) But – the way we support our parish is, mostly, disordered from a Christian perspective. What is normative is tithing. We voted overwhelmingly as a parish to build the church, but have not as a parish supported this desire financially. No one will build the new church for us. More information will be forthcoming. We had a very fruitful discussion at the Parish Council meeting on Sunday in this regard. We think we have some good ideas to help people get from disordered to normal. We know this is not easy. Most of us were in a disordered place ourselves, and it took a lot of work and prayer to get to normal. We will begin to roll out those ideas over the next few weeks. In the mean time, we ask you to pray about this. This is always the most important thing in any case, and with God’s help we have absolute hope that we will get this new church built for His glory!
LEARN MORE ABOUT TITHING HERE
TWO: END OF YEAR DONATIONS FOR TAX PURPOSES
Dear St. Vladimir’s Parishioners! We would like to urge you to consider whether making a donation to the parish before December 31, 2025 would be helpful for you as you consider your tax liability for the year 2025. Donations to St. Vladimir Church are deductible to the greatest extent allowable by law. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions in this regard. It is also very important that your address be up to date in our parish database. If you have moved this year please contact our parish Secretary, Marina Edwards (info@stvladimiraami.org), with your new address.
Mikhail Fisenkov, Treasurer (treasurer@stvladimiraami.org)
Our friend and parishioner who moved to Canada, Sergei Kandikov, has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Of course this is not good, but we must pray for God's mercy. Please remember Sergei regularly in your prayers. Every day if you can!
THREE: ARCHBISHOP GABRIEL VISITS STV DECEMBER 27-28
We are thankful to share that Archbishop Gabriel will visit us at STV on Saturday, December 27 and Sunday, December 28. Please mark your calendars now!
SATURDAY VIGIL 5:00 P.M.
SUNDAY LITURGY 9:00 A.M.
There will be ordinations at this Liturgy. Our own Deacon Mikhail Moibenko will be ordained a priest and Subdeacon Alexander Belyarchik (from our parish in McKinney, Texas) will be ordained a deacon. The new clergymen will serve their first Divine Services at STV Sunday afternoon about 3:00 p.m., and Monday morning (12/29/25) at 8:00 a.m.
FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE ORDINATION RESPONSES OF THE PEOPLE HERE
FLYER TO SHARE – ALL ARE WELCOME!
FOUR: MEMBERSHIP MONTH!
December is always Membership Month! Learn more, pay dues, sign up on our MEMBERSHIP PAGE.
FIVE: ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA IS DECEMBER 25
It is our strong STV tradition to join our brothers and sisters in Christ for their parish feast day in Lake Odessa on December 25 each year. Liturgy begins at 10:00 a.m. with a meal to follow. For those who will be celebrating the Incarnation of Christ on that day with family: may it be blessed! It is remarkable and noteworthy that more than 2000 years after the birth of the Savior the world still pauses to note His Incarnation on this day. But let us pray fervently that this be the year that the hymn of the angels heard all those centuries ago over Bethlehem be actualized in our world: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, goodwill and peace.” Full Schedule of Nativity Services at St. Vladimir's
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