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THIS WEEK’S PARISH BULLETINS ENGLISH + РУССКИЙ

SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES AT STV
ONE: TITHING HOW TO
FIRST - thank you to EVERYONE who is making an effort to tithe! May the Lord bless your efforts! SECOND - folks have been asking about how to tithe. I’m not 100% sure if that means the mathematical function, or something else, so I made THIS VIDEO that I hope will be helpful. In short, let’s say you make $1000.00/week. To figure your tithe just move that decimal point one space to the left. Your tithe would be $100.00/week. But that might not be the qustion of “how to tithe”. It might be more like: should I tithe on my gross income (your official salary), one my net income (what is left after the government takes out taxes, etc.), on what is left after I pay all my other bills, or something else? I think that is the more likely question. And it is not an easy answer. Ideally, the gross income. This would be the most challenging, which means it would also be the most spiritually rewarding. If that is not possible to begin, then probably we should shoot for tithing on our net income. That is how we pay our other bills (whatever is left after the government gets its piece). It is very important that you pay your mortgage or rent. You need a place to live and you pay that from your net income. It seems reasonable to equate your “mortgage” for God’s House to the mortgage for your own house. That is, just as you would not consider skipping your mortgage payment, and you bake that into your family budget as a key ingredient, so too should you have as a key ingredient of that family budget your tithe. But what is MOST IMPORTANT is to begin. Even if you can’t give 10% of your net income. Begin by establishing a recurring donation of 5%, or 2.5%. Then grow it over time as you can, until you get to that 10% goal. Please talk to me (Fr. Gregory), Fr. Colin, Mikhail Fisenkov, Marina Edwards, or Dmitri Knysh with quesitons.
LEARN MORE: STV DONATE PAGE ~ STV TREASURER’S CORNER

TWO: SERVICES AT STV THIS WEEK
Tuesday 6:00 p.m./Wednesday 9:00 a.m. St. Basil the Great/Circumcision of the Lord
Friday 6:00 p.m./Saturday 8:00 a.m. Synaxis of the 70 Apostles ALL ENGLISH SERVICE CYCLE
Saturday 6:00 p.m./Sunday 10:00 a.m. Sunday Resurrectional Services/Eve of the Theophany*
Sunday 6:00 p.m./Monday 8:00 a.m. Theophany
*This Sunday is rather complex from a liturgical point of view. The Great Blessing of the Waters takes place in the church after Vespers. We will send detailed service information during the week. Will we serve Vespers right after Liturgy? Will we have lunch and then Vespers? We are working these things out.


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: ANNUAL CALENDAR MAILING AVAILABLE UNTIL 1/18/26
Please be sure to pick up your 2026 calendar 1/4/26 through 1/18/26 at St. Vladimir’s. This is a very expensive mailing! You help us A LOT if you take your calendar home with you rather than making us mail it to you. :) Thank you in advance for your efforts in this regard!

FOUR: ANNUAL BALL TICKETS ON SALE NOW – SUPPORT A2OCA!
Ball tickets for our Annual Ann Arbor Orthodox Classical Academy fund raiser ball! Learn more, buy tickets, choose your meal, make suggestions for dance music, and more at THE BALL TICKET PAGE. JOIN US!

FIVE: ANNUAL MEETING OFFICIAL NOTICE
Please note that our parish annual meeting for 2025 will be held on Sunday, February 15, 2026. This is a very important meeting as always, but this year even more so, as this meeting will also mark the deadline for our efforts to tithe in support of our new building project. Please find the annual meeting materials below.
LETTER FROM FR. GREGORY: UPDATE ON NEW CHURCH FUND RAISING ENGLISH + РУССКИЙ
ANNUAL MEETING LETTER AND AGENDA

BONUS: CHURCH SCHOOL STARTS 1/24/26!
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