From friends at stchristinaorthodox.org Sat Sep 4 18:53:33 2010 From: friends at stchristinaorthodox.org (Friends of St. Christina Orthodox Church) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 15:53:33 -0700 Subject: [friends] This coming weekend Message-ID: Dear Friends of St. Christina Please forgive me for the additional e-mail this week, but I forgot to mention a few things in the usual email and they are important. 1st As part of our Charities schedule this coming Sunday, being the Sunday closest to the Nativity of the Theotokos (Sept 8), we will collect funds to support the Martha and Mary House in Southern CA - As Orthodox Christians we hold that life begins at conception (as is exemplified in our celebrations of the Annunciation, the Conception of the Theotokos, and the Conception of St. John, the Forerunner and Baptist). However, we know many people, women in particular, who unwittingly end up pregnant. Martha and Mary House provides a place for women to go who have nowhere else as well as practical, emotional and spiritual support from women to help them. Please come prepare to give as generously as you are able. Women who suffer from pregnancy loss by choice in the past are also offered help and support. For more information you can visit their website at www.marthaandmaryhouse.org. As always we will also have the basket out the following weekend to catch anyone who may have missed it. You can also send a check in to us and we will include it with what is collected. 2nd I mentioned this before but on Sunday we will be having an Events Meeting. We need people to come and be part of this to spread around the work that needs to be done as well as to be sure we have the community "on board" with what we are planning and when, etc. Please plan on staying for a short bit after to attend the meeting. 3rd This Sunday after the Events Meeting we will be assembling the shed for the landscaping equipment. Alex Prescop is coordinating the effort. Bring some work clothes to change into and plan on helping out if you are at all able. Thank and again, my apologies for the extra e-mail this week. Wishing everyone every blessing for the rest of the week. With love in Christ Fr. Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From friends at stchristinaorthodox.org Tue Sep 7 17:04:07 2010 From: friends at stchristinaorthodox.org (Friends of St. Christina Orthodox Church) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:04:07 -0700 Subject: [friends] Weekly Update Message-ID: Dear Friends of St. Christina Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever! We had a wonderful initial response to our collection for Martha & Mary House in Southern CA. If you missed it this past Sunday you can still bring in your contribution this coming Sunday. A big ?thank you? to Alex, Russ, Lisa, John and Tony for staying on Sunday and putting together our new landscaping shed! We were able to finish putting in the shelves today and have moved ALL the landscaping equipment out of the garage and into the shed. It?s a perfect fit! When you are coming to work on the landscaping just ask Alex or myself for the combination to the padlock on the door. You no longer need to worry about getting into the buildings and dealing with our alarm systems. A big ?thank you? also goes out to John, Russ and Tereasa who came out yesterday to work on replacing the bad wood on the porch railings in front of the church offices. In the next week or so the porch should all be done and then we are going to be able to ask for volunteers to paint and we will be all set before the rains come! Attached are a couple photos from those of you who are a bit too far to come and take a look for yourselves. Reminders for this week. Tonight (Tuesday) 7:00pm we will celebrate the Vigil for the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos Wednesday 7:00am ? Festal Divine Liturgy for the Nativity of the Theotokos 10-11:30am is our 1st ?Father?s Caf?? ? We will begin with prayer and some reflection on the feast and will enjoy some good coffee, tea and conversation with a general Q&A session. If people have a specific topic they would like to discuss they can always let me know. People are also welcome to bring small snacks to share if they would like. Thursday 7:30pm is our continuing adult education class on the comparing the life and teachings of the Orthodox Church with the Roman Catholic Church Wishing everyone a blessed week. With love in Christ Fr. Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Newsletter090510.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 387763 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: St Christina Prayer List - 090510.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 59689 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1008.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 1127389 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1009.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 1290285 bytes Desc: not available URL: From friends at stchristinaorthodox.org Wed Sep 22 12:53:54 2010 From: friends at stchristinaorthodox.org (Friends of St. Christina Orthodox Church) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:53:54 -0700 Subject: [friends] Weekly Update Message-ID: Dear Friends of St. Christina Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever! What a wonderful weekend! It was such a joy to start off our church school year and see all the children and youth of our community who will be We are very blessed to have such talented and commited teachers. However, We do still need 2 assistant teachers. One for the youngest group to help Matushka Vickie and one for the teens to help me. We also still need folks to be willing to help out as the 2nd adult in classroom in case a teacher can?t make it. Please speak to me if you are willing. Also, parents we still need church school registration forms from many of you. This helps us make sure we have enough materials for the kids and that kids don?t feel left out. Please fill out the attached registration from and submit it to me this week. In case you missed it this past weekend, this coming weekend we will be still collecting for the North American Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) ministry for college and university students. In other news, I failed to mention this weekend the results of our collection for the Martha and Mary Maternity House in Southern CA. We raised $700! For a small community such as ours that is a wonderful response to support this incredible ministry right here in our Diocese! As Orthodox Christians we recognize the beginning of life at conception and our support of Martha and Mary House is a small way for us to show our faith taking concrete actions. Thank you!!! Our sign-ups for our landscaping maintenance and interior cleaning have empty slots. Please take a look and take a turn with these simple and important ministries in the ongoing life of our community. As Tony announced on Sunday we are in process of gathering nominations for people to run for our Mission?s parish Council. If you are interested please see either Tony Siacotos, Diane Worth or myself. Also, as a reminder we are planning our mission open house & yard sale for Sat Oct 30. More information will be forthcoming with details about donations for the yardsale and how people can help. Attached is our bulletin and the updated prayer list. Reminders for the week Wednesday 10-11:30am ?Father?s Caf?? Discussion Time ? Coffee and tea are served. Come and spend some time sharing challenges and blessings with your brothers and sisters in Christ. 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting Thursday 7:30pm Adult Education ? Comparing the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church Friday 7:00pm Akathist for All Saints of Alaska including St. Herman, St Juvenal of Illiamna, St. Peter the Aleut of San Francisco, St. Jacob of Alaska In Christ, Fr. Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: St Christina Prayer List - 092010.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 59173 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Registration.doc Type: application/msword Size: 29696 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: St Christina Prayer List - 092110.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 59283 bytes Desc: not available URL: