JULY / ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ 2016 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 7 the H ARK - ΚΙΒΩΤΟΣ M ONTHL Y B ULLE TIN OF THE ASS UM PTION OF OUR MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS GREEK ORTHODOX CH U RCH Μ ΗΝΙ ΑΙΟ ΔΕΛ ΤΙΟ ΤΗ Σ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΟΡ ΘΟΔ ΟΞΗ Σ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙ ΑΣ ΤΗ Σ ΚΟΙΜΗΣΕ ΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΟΤΟ ΚΟ Υ Assumption Greek Orthodox Church 111 Island Pond Road Manchester NH 03109 Phone: (603) 623-2045 Fax: (603) 232-6347 info@assumptionnh.org www.assumptionnh.org Join us on Facebook INSIDE THIS ISSUE Monthly Calendar (Greek)... 2 Ministries List... 3 Parish News... 4 Philoptochos News... 4 Youth News... 5 Stewardship...7 Monthly Calendar (English)... 15 1
ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ 2016 ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ ΤΡΙΤΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ ΠΕΜΠΤΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 1 2 3 2η Κυριακή του Ματθαίου Ορθρος: 8:00πμ Θεία Λειτ: 9:15πμ 4 ΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΞΑΡΤΗΣΙΑΣ 5 6 7 8 9 Καλοκαιρινές Ωρες 10 3η Κυριακή του Ματθαίου Ορθρος: 8:00πμ Θεία Λειτ: 9:15πμ 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Κυριακή των Αγίων Πατέρων Ορθρος: 8:00πμ Θεία Λειτ: 9:15πμ Συσσιτιο Απόρων (New Horizons) 4:00-6:00μμ 24 5η Κυριακή του Ματθαίου Ορθρος: 8:00πμ Θεία Λειτ: 9:15πμ 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 6η Κυριακή του Ματθαίου Ορθρος: 8:00πμ Θεία Λειτ: 9:15πμ 2
Reverend Father Gregory Trakas Office Hours Tuesday & Thursday 1-4 pm or by appointment Parish Council President... James Folopoulos Vice President... Nick Karagianis Secretary... Mike Rokas Treasurer... Ted Rokas Arthur Bakolas Costa Georgopoulos Harold Guidicelli Peter Lazos Charles Mardanes Kathy Papakostas Penny Papastathis Helen Rainey Philoptochos Board 2016 President...Lucie Skouteris Vice President...Maria Chronas Recording Secretary...Andrea Moutsioulis Corresponding Secretary... Iris Belinsky Treasurer..Georgia Palaskas Assistant Treasurer..Nancy Mardanes Liaison to National & Metropolis Boards...Mariana Gasis Advisor...Esther Kereakoglow Martha Galanis Artemis Lazos Staff Evangelia Gregorious Secretary...Janet Malin Chanter.Vasilios Rokas Choir Director.Joan Virga YOUTH MINISTRIES DIRECTORS GOYA... Stavroula Bakolas JOY... Julie Karagianis Mommy & Me Ranya Karatzoulidis PARISH SCHOOLS Sunday School Director..TBA Teachers.Nicole Condodemetraky Stavroula Bakolas Angeliki Kalampalikis Theohare Kapellakis Greek School Director George Kitsis Teacher.Alexandra Bruttaniti Advisor.Connie Stamoulis Newsletter Editors Fr. Gregory Trakas Sophia Annas Janet Malin James Folopoulos Nancy Mardanes Ellen Healy ADDRESS CHANGES Please notify the Church office if you are moving so that we may update our database. Thank you. Pastoral Home Visitation If a loved one is in the hospital, in a nursing home, or is house-bound due to an illness, please feel free to contact Fr. Gregory Trakas at the Church office to arrange a visit. Ark published monthly by Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 111 Island Pond Road, Manchester NH 03109 3
Parish News Congratulations to all our beautiful children who graduated from Greek School and Sunday School last month. We also wish all our high school and college graduates good luck and best wishes for future success. Thank you to all the volunteers of our Youth programs! Please note that our Summer Hours are already in effect. Orthros starts at 8:00 am and Divine Liturgy begins at 9:15 am. Remember, summer is not a time to take vacation away from God. Please try to attend church regularly. Parish Council The next Parish Council meeting will be held on Monday, August 8 th at 7:30 PM. Parish Priest Fr. Gregory would like to wish everyone a blessed summer vacation. He will be gone from July 4 th to July 23 rd. While he is gone, please call the Church office 603-623-2045; if it is urgent, please call our Parish Council President, Jim Folopoulos 603-540-5424. Philoptochos News We are accepting donations for the purchase of the flowers that will adorn the icon of Panagia and the iconostasis for the upcoming Paraklesis (Supplication) services, and the Great Vespers & Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (August 1-15). Please give your donation to any Philoptochos Board member. We will host the reception following the Great Vespers to be held on August 14 for the Feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, and hope to see everyone there. Lucie Skouteris President 4
New Horizons Soup Kitchen New Horizons Soup Kitchen is Sunday, July 17 th, 4-6 PM. We are always looking for volunteers to join our group and help us serve food to the needy. This ministry is a very rewarding experience! Please join us for less than two hours of fellowship with the group from the Assumption Church. If you have any questions, call the church office at 603-623-2045. Thank you! Choir Our choir is on vacation the month of July. Starting August however, we are calling all parishioners to join our talented choir. All ages are welcome. All that is required is your passion and love for our church! Please contact our Choir Director, Joan Virga at 603-553-9525 or the church office. Youth Ministry News Thank you again to our Youth advisors and to all our volunteers who helped make this year a success for our children! Our Youth Ministry events require a lot of planning and effort. We are all proud of you for a job well done! Blessings to all our children and families! Have a safe and fun summer; we look forward to seeing you during Sunday services! Finally, anyone interested in joining our Youth Team, please contact Stavroula Bakolas or Fr. Gregory, Be part of planting the seeds of the future of our Church! A SPECIAL THANK YOU" AND WELCOME! Also thank you to Connie Stamoulis for her many years of dedicated service as our Greek School Teacher! We will miss having Mrs. Connie as one of our teachers, but we are looking forward to her staying involved with Youth Ministries in other ways. Finally, we welcome Alexandra Bruttaniti as our new full time Greek School teacher. Alexandra has assisted in Greek School the past several months with great enthusiasm. We are looking forward to having her with us for many years to come. IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER Saturday, Aug. 27 th & Sunday, August 28th - Annual Greekfest weekend 5
Sacraments When planning for a baptism or wedding, please check the availability of the church BEFORE booking your reception hall. Thank you! 40 day Blessings 6/19 - Alexis, daughter of Dimitrios & Julie Nakos Funeral 6/29 - Mary Mitchell 6/19 - Marina, daughter of Nicholas & Bettina Georgoulis 6/26 - Tenley, daughter of Scott & Soula Dunn Baptism Memorial Service 7/17-1 year Vasilios Palaskas 7/31 - Miranda, daughter of Jason & Stacy Laferte Donations Fr. Gregory Trakas Robert Schultz Memorial Donations In memory of Demetra Bartlett In memory of Shirley Camberis In memory of Haralambos Pashos In memory of Robert Schultz In memory of Frank Tingos Easter Flowers Mr. & Mrs. Costas Liolios 6 Planning Memorials When planning for a memorial, please contact the church office at 603-623-2045. There is a certain kind of altar wine and incense we use. Please call for details.
Stewardship May Stewardship Contributions Iris Belinsky George Blatsis Barbara Garos Brown Mr. & Mrs. William Bruttaniti Raymond Buckley Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dryer Daphne Emanuel Evangeline Fusscas Nicholas Gabardina Polixeni Gasis Christina Hand Nola Kalantzis Demetrios Kamberis Mr. & Mrs. Stathis Kapellakis Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kapos Mr. & Mrs. Elias Kourtis Dorothea Koutsavlis Mr. & Mrs. Costas Liolios Brenda McMillan Mary Mitchell Georgia Palaskas Mr. & Mrs. William Pappas Mr. & Mrs. Mark Piet Mihail Rokas Theodoros Rokas Mr. & Mr. Vasilios Rokas Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Skouteris Demetrios Tentas Artemis Tingas Mr. & Mrs. Costas Tonas James Tonas Michael Tsecaris John Tsiamis Mr. & Mrs. Yianni Tsihlis Dr. James Vailas Remember please to submit your 2016 Stewardship Pledge Stewardship is our God-given OBLIGATION and the PRIMARY source of income for our church! Seek first God s Kingdom and His Righteousness and all other things shall be added to you. (Mt 6:33) And some seeds fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold. (Lk 8:8) Give to Cesar what is Cesar s and to God what is God s. (Mk 12:17) Rich is not the one who has much, but the one who gives much. For what one gives away, he keeps for all eternity. St. John Chrysostom Thank you for your love to the House of the Lord! May our Lord bless you hundredfold and remember you in His Kingdom! 7
GREEKFEST 2016 CALLING ALL PARISHONERS!!! Our 2016 GreekFest will be held on Saturday August 27 th and Sunday August 28 th. Festival hours: Saturday 11am to 10 pm; Sunday 11 am-7 pm. Putting this event together is a massive undertaking requiring 100 volunteers each hour the festival is open! This is our largest fundraiser of the year and we need your help! Many of you have worked for years to make this event a success. But, we need more help, new blood and young people to renew our energies. Please don t be shy! We welcome your assistance, ideas and time. The following are specific needs we have at the moment. Please call if you can help in any way or know a source for us to pursue. Right now we are in need of: Donations of all kinds including: monetary, supplies, food, beverage supplies. For any of these please contact Costa Georgopoulos at 603-512-8314, or the Church Office Donations of money and/or prizes for the Penny Sale Table Help with the Youth Booth - Kid's Corner. Come by and help out with the children s craft table and other fun things we have planned. We need volunteers to help set up on Thursday and Friday prior to Greekfest, plus all weekend during the festival, and on Sunday evening with clean up. All families are welcome! For more information, please contact Stavroula Bakolas at: ssbakolas@gmail.com Your time and talents plus anything else you can think of Cooks are needed to join the women of the Philoptochos to prepare specific Greek dishes prior to the Festival, as follows: Sunday, July 17th Dolmathes (grapeleaves) Monday, July 25th Koulourakia (cookies) All cooking is done in the Church Hall (basement) please enter through the back parking lot doorway. Please call the Church Office or Lucie Skouteris at 603-622-7693 for further information. Sounds like a lot of work and it certainly is, but the more help we have, the fewer hours each one of us needs to work! This is a great way to meet new people! It is a lot of fun and a very gratifying way to give back to the Church. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ALREADY HARD AT WORK ON FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES! If you like to participate, please fill out the following form and return it to the church office. 8
PARTICIPATION FORM GREEKFEST 2016 Kitchen Salad Station Loukoumathes Booth Gyro Booth Food Line (servers) Pastry Booth Bar Penny Sale Table Raffle Table Kids Crafts Kids Games Setting up tables-friday afternoon 8/26 Taking down tables-sunday evening 8/28 Tray pick-up Trash pick-up Any station Name: Address: City/State: Phone Number: Cell Number: E-mail: Days I can help: Hours: Friday, August 26 th Saturday, August 27 th Sunday, August 28 th From: To: From: To: From: To: 9
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BUSINESS CARD ADVERTISING Anyone with a business that would like to advertise in our monthly bulletin, please contact the Church office. A business card format, about 2 ½ x 1 ½ will run for a period of 12 months for one set fee of $150.00 a year. This will help to defray the ever-increasing costs of printing and mailing these bulletins to our homes as well as advertising your business to our parishioners and through word of mouth, to their friends. This is a great opportunity for all! 12
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JULY 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 2nd Sunday of Matthew Orthros 8:00 a.m. Div. Lit: 9:15 a.m. Summer hours in effect 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY 5 6 7 8 9 10 3rd Sunday of Matthew 11 12 13 14 15 16 Orthros 8:00 a.m. Div. Lit: 9:15 a.m. 17 Sunday of the Holy Fathers 18 19 20 21 22 23 Orthros 8:00 a.m. Div. Lit: 9:15 a.m. New Horizons Soup Kitchen 4:00 6:00 PM 24 5th Sunday of Matthew 25 26 27 28 29 30 Orthros 8:00 a.m. Div. Lit: 9:15 a.m. 31 6th Sunday of Matthew Orthros 8:00 a.m. Div. Lit: 9:15 a.m. 15
ASSUMPTION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 111 Island Pond Road Manchester, NH 03109 NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID MANCHESTER, NH PERMIT NO. 6249 Youth Ministry End-of-Year Gathering 16