april 2015 monthly newsletter

608 SOUTH COLLEGE ROAD WILMINGTON NC 28403 (910) 392-4444 FAX (910) 392-4905

www.stnicholaswilmington.org

April 2015

Great and Holy Pascha

April 12

http://www.stnicholaswilmington.org/

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church April 2015

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Fr. Jon Emanuelson

Parish Priest

Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 9AM – 2PM

Office Phone: 910-392-4444 Office Fax: 910-392-4905

Fr. Jon’s Mobile Number: 910-685-0080

Office Email: [email protected]

Fr. Jon’s Email: [email protected]

Church Website: www.stnicholaswilmington.org

Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/StNicholasWilmington

2015 PARISH COUNCIL

CHURCH STAFF

Angelique Skandalakis, Parish Office Administrator

PARISH MINISTRY TEAM

Officers Members

Barbara Reynolds, President John Burgee Debra Rallis

Evangelos Fragos, Vice President Peter Manolukas Nick Saffo

Irene Sotiriou Vogiatzis, Secretary Peter Malahias Maria Stasios

Tina Bostic, Treasurer Emanuel Miliotis

Religious Education…Richard Reynolds, Ministry Chair Communications - Technology Ministries…

Adult Education…Richard Reynolds Alexandros Theodoropolos, Ministry Group Leader

Youth Catechism…Courtney Malahias, Director Webmaster… Alexandros Theodoropolos

Bookstore/Library…Mary Ann Wall Publications…Angelique Skandalakis, Stella McTaggart

Oratorical Festival…Courtney Malahias Technology… Alexandros Theodoropolos

Media/Community Relations…Beth Burgee, Debra

Hellenic Culture…Kitsa Wiersteiner, Ministry Chair Rallis, Alexandros Theodoropolos

Hellenic School…Anestis Logothetis, Acting Director

Romiosini Dance Group… Zaharoula Katsikis Parish Family Life…**Volunteer Needed**

Zoyra Dance Group… Zaharoula Katsikis Parish Family Night…**Volunteer Needed**

Choral…Dr. Michael Rallis Men’s Group…Richard Reynolds

Special Activities… Kitsa Wiersteiner Women’s Group…**Volunteer Needed**

Forever Young…Stella Vallianos

Youth Diakonia…Koula Katsikis, Ministry Chair LOVE…Stella McTaggart

GOYA…Mary Beth Miliotis, Tina Bostic, Dr. David

Snow, Irene Vogiatzis Outreach & Evangelism…Diane McGowan

HOPE/JOY… Joyce Patsalos, Renée Psilos, Sophia OCF…Fr. Jon, Alexandros Theodoropolos

Brewer, Connie Ronner, Jaime Saffo Hospitality…Ed and Kathleen Mayorga

Community Service…Christina Mount

Liturgical Life… Dr. Michael Rallis, Ministry Chair Parish Care…Pat Poulos, Tina Stamatakis

Liturgical Music… Dr. Michael Rallis

Acolytes…Doug Brown Philoptochos…Thalia Kefalas, Chapter President

Neokoros/Sexton…**Volunteer Needed**

Stewardship…Debra Rallis

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From the Desk of Father Jon

Why We Call the Feast of Feasts - PASCHA

…Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha…we hear this chanted with joy to the glory of God!

When we, as Orthodox Christians, celebrate the life-giving Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, we call it

PASCHA! But does everyone in the other Christian churches call it Easter? Glad you asked. There is great

debate over the origin of the word Easter. Many scholars believe that the term goes all the way back to Baby-

lonians time (Easter/Ishatar). Many have spoken that the term Easter originates from German pagan practices

of early centuries (Saxon – Eostre). From our Orthodox tradition comes the sources of the Venerable Bede

from England (673-735 A. D.). He identified Eostre as one whose festivals were celebrated in the month giv-

en her name.

“Eosturmanath has a name which is now translated “Paschal month,” and which was once called after a god-

dess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honor feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate the

Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honored name of the old observance.”

(answersingenisis.org)

Thus, having identified how the term Easter came to be in use, it best to go back to our Orthodox Tradition

and roots and explore why we refer to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as Pascha. When the 70 translators of

the Old Testament were commissioned by the Ptolemy King of Egypt, Philadelphus, in the third century B.C.

to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, the scholars translated the Hebrew word for Passover “Pesach”

into Greek as Πάσχα (Pascha). The great story of the deliverance of the Hebrew people from slavery under

Pharaoh in Egypt is remembered during our Orthodox Christian Holy Week. The passage in Exodus refers to

the Passover of the angel of death over the households of the Hebrews that have the blood of the lamb painted

upon their doorposts. (Exodus 12:1-13:16) This passage which is read every Holy Friday is a direct parallel

to the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Clearly, the Lord made sure that he was there in Jerusalem for the

Passover. He was referred to by St. John the Baptist as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Thus, blood of the Lamb of God was shed upon the wood of the Cross for our salvation on the Friday of the

Passover. The Sanhedrin made sure that the body of Jesus was removed from the Cross and placed in a tomb

prior to sundown so that they could keep the Passover of the Jews. Jesus knew what was to come and yet

with agony said in prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, “Nevertheless, not My will, but Thy will be done.”

The authorities in Jerusalem witnessed the earthquake, the darkening of the sun, the curtain of the Temple be-

ing torn in two, the bodies of the saints of old risen, and they still did not believe. Yet, we know the great

providence of God, that on the third day He arose from the dead and appeared to the myrrh bearing women.

Thus, it is fitting and right to always and with great love refer to the Feast of Feasts and Festival of Festivals,

the life-giving Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as PASCHA, the Christian Passover from

death to life in Christ!

Καλό Πάσχα και` Καλή Ανάσταση!

- Love, Fr. Jon


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From the Parish Council President

Barbara Reynolds

The Spring General Assembly meeting was held in February. See below for the minutes of the

meeting*. Please see me or any other parish council member if you have any questions.

Summary of the St. Nicholas General Assembly Meeting, Sunday, February 22, 2015

Parish Council Attendees: Father Jon Emanuelson, Manny Miliotis, Maria Stasios, Peter Malahias, Debbie Ral-

lis, Barbara Reynolds, Peter Manolukas, Nick Saffo and John Burgee. Absent: Irene Sotiriou, Vangeli Fragos.

Call to Order, Opening Prayer, Election of Chairman, Quorum met, and Minutes from previous meeting

Nov 2014 accepted as presented.

Spiritual Reflection: Tithing, Sacrificial giving, Stewardship card. Challenged parishioners to increase giving

and to give a little bit along the way so the glory of God will be magnified.

President’s Report, Barbara Reynolds:

New parish councilor – Dr. Peter Manolukas

Strategic initiatives reviewed as related to Worship, Service, Witness, and Fellowship

Worship: Grow & expand our byzantine liturgical experience. Create an environment where all feel welcomed

Service: Loving service to God and mankind

Witness: Continue spiritual growth for adults and children encouraging a Christ centered relationship. Reach out

to young adults through OCF. Grow & expand our ministry teams. Expand the health of our youth ministries

Fellowship & Culture: Foster an environment of “filia” through retreats, outings, events & activities to grow

closer together. Embrace the cultural heritage of our parishioners.

Successes/Strengths: Outreach & Parishioner follow-up, Parish Events, Stop Hunger Now, Pascha picnic etc…,

Church Attendance, Youth Activities, Outside Speakers, Stewardship Education

Opportunities for Improvement: Volunteer “servant” turn over & succession planning, Continue Stewardship

education, Sharing our God given time, talent and treasure, “road to tithing”, Strengthening Ministries, Organi-

zation, Promotion and Communication, Coordination of all methods of communication, early planning and no-

tice of events, Better sharing with the parish of Parish Council and General Assembly decisions

Progress Report: Built closets for costume and classroom storage, Church kneelers donated by Jimmie and An-

na Patsalos family (Thank You), Online giving system in final test, Hellenic Center painting

New Ministry: Long Range Planning Ministry

Team: Fr. Jon Emanuelson, John Burgee, Tina Bostic, Nick Bouboulis, Basile Katsikis, Koula Katsikis, Lee

King, Caleb Kratsa, Peter Manolukas, Ed Mayorga, Manny Miliotis, Debbie Rallis, Michael Rallis, Barbara

Reynolds, Nick Saffo, and Daphne Snow

Objectives: Analyze where we want to be in 10 years, What are the needs of parish to get there,, Make recom-

mendations to PC & GA , to foster parish growth: Addressing ministries, Church and Hall beautification and

capacity, Future endowment funds


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Ministry Reports

Ministry Team

Executive Committee: Fr. Jon Emanuelson, ex officio, Maria Stasios, PC Ministry Liaison, Rick Reynolds Re-

ligious Education, Kitsa Wiersteiner, Hellenic Culture, Koula Katsikis Youth Diakonia, Dr. Michael Rallis Li-

turgical Life, Alexandros Theodoropoulos Tech & Communications, (Open)Family Life , Diane McGowan

Outreach and Evangelism, Thalia Kefalas Philoptochos

Ministry Spotlight Stella Vallianos – Forever Young

Presented an overview of this ministry, the monthly meetings and outings for parishioners and encouraged oth-

ers to participate. This group is for Members over 55 years old and we have 15+ members with monthly get

together.

Festival

Nick Saffo presented. 2015 Dates: May 15, 16, and 17. Next Festival Meeting – March 17, 2015. Good Shep-

ard Ministry will be the benevolent partner for 2015.

Festival Needs: Need parishioners to sell and buy ads, Coordinate/prepare corporate lunches for Friday (May

15th), Meal Preparation, Tent and Table set-up, Cashiers, Food servers, gate attendants, etc.

Festival Report Overview

2014 Charity Distribution: Good Shepherd Center – $7,500; Torian Family Fund – $3,000; Diakonia Center –

$2,000; Benevolent Fund – $500

Note: over $300,000 was paid in total for the classroom and kitchen renovations done in 2006 – 2007.

Year Net Income Profit Margin

2009 $69,973 36%

2010 $84,652 41%

2011 $87,396 40%

2012 $88,236 39%

2013 $86,657 39%

2014 $130,695 53%

Festival Profits Financed Capital Improvements Years 2010 through 2014

2010 $12,800 New A/C for classrooms

2010 $13,850 New A/C and heat for sanctuary

2011 $6,650 New A/C and heat for kitchen

2011 $7,012 New copier / printer

2010 - 2012 $114,184 Paid off remainder of mortgage for classrooms

2013 $30,318 Paved back parking lot

2014 $18,400 Paved front parking lot

2014 $15,800 New A/C for Hellenic Center

$219,014

$217,486 Current Balance in Festival Fund


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Treasurer Update: Tina Bostic presented:

Assets & Liabilities

II) Liabilities $0 $0

*Are sub accounts in the Designated Bank Account.

Treasurer gave 2015 Budget focus review of areas that changed from Fall 2014 General Assembly. Motion to

accept budget - Manny Lionakis; Stella V seconded motion. $311,950 income / like expenses. Proposed

budget includes moving $15,000 from the festival to cover expenses unless stewardship comes in higher than

budgeted. Budget Passed as presented.

Stewardship

Debbie Rallis presented outline on 2014 and 2015 Stewardship. Spring Assembly vs Spring Assembly our

pledges are ahead of last year at this time:

Total Stewards & Amount Pledged/Received: Number of stewards increased in 2013 and stayed about the

same in 2014. Amount pledged took a jump in 2013 and again in 2014. Funds received in 2014 approximately

$14K less pledged. In 2014 9 families pledged that didn’t pledge in previous year, 27 new pledgers/families,

35 families that pledged 2013 didn’t pledge 2014 moved, pledged for sacrament in 2013, etc.

Audit Committee Pending audit of 2014 Books; to be completed by Koula Katsikis and Melissa Kirkby

Closing prayer Jim Stasios adjourned meeting and Father Jon gave a closing prayer

* Official Minutes have been formatted to fit this publication.

Feb. 16, 2015 Feb. 16, 2014

Stewardship Total $161,440 $155,234

No. of Stewards 70 62

% of Participation 35% 31%

Bank Statements Spring Assembly 2/2015 Fall Assembly 11/2014

General Fund Checkbook

Money Market Account

Festival Checking

Designated

*Benevolent

*Building Fund

*Memorial

*Greek School

*Designated Other

*GOYA

$5,131.42

$203,433.27

$14,053.77

$60,192.70

$7,965.98

$14,760.54

$20,768.17

$9,295.42

$592.72

$6,809.88

$27,645.02

$203,399.00

$33,033.05

$71,391.83

$10,204.68

$26,575.28

$19,687.06

$6,261.62

$1.008.31

$7,654.88

Account Totals $282,811.16 $335,468.90


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Stewardship Debra Rallis

Where are you on your ROAD TO TITHING?

Take your CURRENT PLEDGED AMT divided by

your ANNUAL INCOME= CURRENT % OF GIV-

ING

Can you try and increase your current percentage?

GOAL IS 10%

If you are at 1%, can you move to 1.5 or 2%?

TOGETHER, WE CAN RETURN TO THE LORD

THAT WHICH IS HIS...........

...We thank you, our God, and praise your glorious

Name....for all things come from you and we have

only given back what is yours already. (I Chronicles

29:13-14)

Your support provides for the many ministries and

parish life at St. Nicholas.

Bookstore Mary Ann Wall

The bookstore/library will have an open house some-

time in May after the Festival. No firm date has been

set but I hope all parishioner will COME SEE.

Thank you. In Christ’s Service, Mary Ann Wall.

Hellenic School Anestis Logothetis, Interim Director

There will be no Greek School the following Fridays:

March 27, April 3 (because of the public school vaca-

tion [American Easter week]), April 10 (Orthodox

Good Friday), and May 15 (because of the Festival.)

Greek School Graduation will be on Sunday June 7 in

a ceremony shared with the Sunday school.

Youth Catechism Courtney Malahias

The weather is changing, the sun is shining more

brightly, flowers are in bloom and the world looks a

little brighter. Like our prayer life when we increase

it and focus on everything for the glory to God. My

heart sings during this time of year. Glory be to God!

Sunday Church School is going well and our attend-

ance has been wonderful! Thank you for bringing

your children to church!

We had our Oratorical Festival on March 1. I was so

proud of our participants. In the senior division Peter

Vogiatzis won first place, George Malahias won sec-

ond and Eliana Fragos won third prize. In the Junior

division George Fragos was our first place winner.

We had one participant in the elementary division

which was Kassiana Harris. The district level takes

place on March 28th at St. Nektarios in Charlotte,

NC . Good luck!!

Please continue to turn in Altoid mint boxes. I have a

special project in mind for them. Thank you so much

for all you do! We always need U in CH RCH!

Grateful to be in His service,

Courtney Malahias

Orthodox Christian Fellowship Alexandros Theodoropoulos

Our OCF group started the 2015 year with a social

gathering that took place at UNCW on January 23rd

with the participation of Fr. Jon, Fr. Timothy from St.

Basil and OCF students and patrons. A great time

was had by all! We would like to wish all of our stu-

dents a Happy New Year as well as productive and

successful academic semesters with good Health,

Wisdom, Strength and Enlightenment!

Please be reminded to look out for the pertinent com-

munications regarding our OCF group’s informal

Open Forum lunch meetings with Fr. Jon and Fr.

Timothy (from St. Basil) at the Varsity Cafe in the

UNCW Fisher Student Center. All are welcome to

2015 STEWARDSHIP DRIVE 3/14/2015

Updated with actual giving

Total Stewards 87

Total $ Pledged $180,685

2015 Budget (goal) $240,000

Avg $ pledge per steward $2,077

% Parish participation to date 44%

% of total goal 75%

Total Giving to date $45,566


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join! In case you know of any students that would be

interested, please encourage them to attend.

We would further like to identify potential host fami-

lies for our OCF students. The pertinent docu-

ment/form can be found on our website at

www.stnicholaswilmington.org/Docs/OutreachEvange

lism/OCF/OCFSponsors.pdf . The following are sug-

gested ways that host families could use to stay in

touch with the student(s) they would be matched with:

1. Email the students weekly. (Be sure to mention that

you have been appointed as a host family for the OCF

for this year in your first email.)

2. Text (Most of the students cell phones are listed.

You can do this after you establish email contact.)

3. Offer to help the students with rides to church and

events.

4. Remind your host student of church services and

events coming up in the near future.

5. Invite the students for a home cooked meal!

Please see Fr. Jon for more information about our new

OCF Host Family or Sponsorship program. Please

consider becoming a host family for one of our OCF

students.

GOYA

Koula Katsikis, Mary Beth Miliotis, Tina Bostic, David Snow,

Irene Vogiatzis

GOYAN ACTIVITIES FOR APRIL

April 1 Goya Discussion Group w/ Fr Jon 7PM

April 4 Saturday of Lazarus - Youth to sponsor

pancake breakfast / palm cross making

April 4-12 HOLY WEEK/ EASTER – GOYAN

Readers / Participants needed for all services.

April 10 Holy Friday retreat event scheduled for

Goyans – with Alex Kamilaris from Holy Cross Am-

bassador’s Program. (Epitafion and candles prepara-

tions needed also).

April 12 PASCHA/ EASTER SUNDAY – pic-

nic Hugh McRae Park

April 15 St Stephens Summer Camp – registra-

tion opens today

April 18 Goyan Luau – Raleigh

April 25 ANOIXI Dance workshop – Charlotte

NC. (For Odyssey Scholarship applicants)

April 25 Relay for Life (This is a Saturday this

year.)

Hope/Joy

Joyce Patsalos, Renee Psilos, Sophia Brewer,

Connie Ronner, Jamie Saffo

Hello fellow Hope/Joy families! I want to first say

what a blast we had at our ice skating outing in Febru-

ary. We all had such a great time!


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For those of you that weren't able to make, we have a

lot more fun activities planned for the year! Our next

event will be April 26th. We are all going to go

strawberry picking at Lewis Farms. So please remem-

ber to mark your calendars for this upcoming event!

Communications/Technology Alexandros Theodoropoulos

(With a personal comment)

We would like to remind all of our parishioners that

have internet access to visit our Online Multimedia

Gallery that contains a great number of photos as well

as videos from our various parish life events. You may

access our Online Gallery on our website by following

the Multimedia Gallery link on the left pane of the

home page. The photos can also be accessed directly

through our Picassa web album at

http://picasaweb.google.com/stnicholasgoc and the

videos through our church’s YouTube channel at

http://www.youtube.com/user/stnicholasgoc . Among

a variety of recent content additions, videos of our Ro-

miosini and Zoyra dance group performance at this

year’s HDF (Hellenic Dance Festival) in Charlotte NC

have also been posted.

While on the HDF topic, I would like to share a per-

sonal note. I would like to start with congratulating

both of our groups for putting their best effort and de-

livering great performances! I had the opportunity to

watch both groups closely and I can definitely attest to

the fact that our dance director, Zaharoula, and all the

dancers worked very hard over the past months to pre-

pare for the event. Our Romiosini group, in particular,

had to go through a number of challenges during all

that time, however, under Zaharoula’s leadership, the

dancers managed to persevere, overcome all the diffi-

culties and eventually reach the end of their journey

performing with their heart, winning in this way the

real prize also in the hearts of all of us watching them

at HDF. It should further be noted that this was the

first time ever that any of our groups was singing and

dancing at the same time for two of their dances, for

which our Romiosini dancers were so excited! There

was one thing I personally asked them to do right be-

fore each of their two performances … “to show to

everybody that Wilmington not only knows how to

dance but Wilmington can also dance and sing while

performing” … And they delivered since, for their

singing as well as their great enthusiasm and “Kefi” in

their dancing, they gave a strong message by also win-

ning the Folk Expression award! Regardless, there are

no words to describe how moved all of us were after

their performances as we watched these children of

our community accomplishing something like that for

the first time! And as far as I am concerned, I couldn’t

be any prouder of them … Thus, parishioners of St.

Nicholas, you can be proud of these children and rest

assure that they represented you well!

On another note, it is evident that our parish life has

become much richer over the last years with a grow-

ing number of events and activities. Although this is

certainly a blessing, it could also present some chal-

lenges in the effort of our Communications ministries

to promote and inform our parishioners as well as the

rest of the world about all these parish life events of

ours. For this reason, I would like to focus here on two

items that can help address these challenges.

We would like to have your photos and videos! In

case any of you has photos and videos from our

various parish life events, please consider sharing

them with our Communications Chair and our

church office using the email addresses listed at

the end of this article. We are trying to collect all

these items for our publications and online media.

We would like to use this opportunity to extend

special Thanks to all of you that have contributed

media content so far!

Online Calendar. It is evident that our parish cal-

endar is updated frequently and, as a result, the

calendars in our printed publications (Sunday Bul-

letin, monthly newsletter), although useful since

they offer a layout of events for the week or

month, might not stay up to date until the next is-

sue of the publication and this might also result in

some confusion. I would like to remind and stress

here that the official and most updated calendar is

our online one that is posted on our website at

http://www.stnicholaswilmington.org/ParishCalen

dar.html . All changes/additions are posted on our

online calendar dynamically so this should be used

as a reference when possible. Furthermore, in or-

der to better serve our parishioners that do not

have internet access, in addition to the calendar

versions in our printed publications, our office ad-

ministrator now posts every week a printed copy

of our updated monthly newsletter in the Hellenic

Center. We hope that this will be very helpful. In


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case you experience any issues, please let our

Communications Chair and church office know.

Finally, listed below are two more reminders regard-

ing our new services:

The live streaming of our services at St. Nicholas

has been set up and can be seen on our website

directly at

www.stnicholaswilmington.org/LiveStreaming.ht

ml . In case you would like to view our services on

your mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, iPads

etc.), there is an app available that is more suitable

for this purpose. For information on how to set

your device up with this app, you can contact Ale-

xandros Theodoropoulos at communica-

[email protected] .

Our special hearing aid system that we recently

acquired is available to assist our older especially

parishioners with hearing issues to better listen

and follow our services. The system has, at this

point, four receivers available that are simple in

their use, feature volume controls and are carried

by each parishioner individually. Please see one of

the Pangari (candle stand) attendants on duty in

the Narthex area, in case you feel you would like

to try one of the receivers.

In case you have any suggestions or feedback that

could help us in our continuous effort communications

publications/media please contact our church office at

(910) 392-4444 or [email protected]

or our Communications Chair, at communica-

[email protected] .

Community News

Pascha Egg Hunt

This year the families of Hope/Joy are asking for the

community's assistance for our Annual Easter Egg

Hunt after Agape Vespers on Pasha. If you would like

to please donate filled "Easter Eggs" for the children

we would very much appreciate this! Please see our

donation bin in the church hall or you can bring by

filled eggs to the church office. Ideas for fill items in-

clude: stickers, tattoos, miniature stamps, candy that

won't melt in the sun, etc. We would like to have all

donations no later than Sunday April the 5th.

In Christ's Service,

Jamie Saffo, Sophia Brewer, Joyce Patsalos, Connie

Ronner, & Renee Psilos

Greek Festival

Our Greek Festival will be May 15th-17th. For a suc-

cessful event we need all hands on deck in every ca-

pacity.

Monetary donations towards festival expenses are

greatly appreciated. Please be aware, we use food dis-

tributors to order food and paper products; however, if

you would like to designate a certain item for your

donation such as tomatoes, onions, tzatziki sauce, dol-

mathes, rice, potatoes, , napkins, silverware, etc.

please let us know how much money you would like

to donate so we can order these items directly from

the distributors. For any donation, please contact the

office at 910-392-4444 or Fr. Jon.

We are in need of a chairperson for the cooking

demonstrations. Please contact the church office if

interested.

The next festival meeting will be April 15 at 7 p.m.

Congratulations

For all the people celebrating their birthday, anniver-

sary, and name day in the month of April may you

have many happy years! Many Happy Years!

Congratulation to Oleksandr and Viktoriya Matyushyn

on the 40-day blessing of their daughter, Amelia, in

February.

Congratulations to Valerie Lazaridis for winning 3rd

runner up in the Azalea Festival Princess Pageant.

Congratulations to Peter Vogiatzis for placing 1st in

the Senior Division of Oratorical Festival this year.

2nd place in the Senior division was George Malahias,

and 3rd place was Eliana Fragos. Congratulation to

George Fragos for placing 1st place in the Junior Divi-

sion. Eliana & George will represent St. Nicholas at

the District level.

Congratulations to Sia Mayorga on the birth of her

baby girl, Zoe, on Friday, March 13. She weighed 6

lbs 13 oz. and was 18 3/4' long. Mother and daughter


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are doing well! Ed Mayorga became a grandfather

again! ΝΑ ΖΗΣΕΙ - Na zisi - May she (Zoe) be

blessed with longevity!

Sympathies and Memorials

On March 1 we chanted a Trisagion for all the depart-

ed Philoptochos members. May their memories be

eternal!

On March 8, we held a 1 year memorial for Theodore

and Nickolas Manolukas. May their memories be

eternal.

We were deeply saddened to learn that Mr. Tulio Her-

nandez, husband of our former parishioners Yanna

Hernandez and father of Emilio Hernandez, Fell

Asleep in the Lord in the morning of Sunday, March

8th, 2015, after a long battle with a non-operable brain

cancer ... We would like to extend our deepest condo-

lences to and pray for Δύναμη (Strength) for Yanna

and Emilio and the rest of their extended family ...

Αιωνία του η μνήμη! May his memory be eternal!

As many of you remember, for several years, Tulio,

Yanna and Emilio were part of our community and we

miss them very much. Yanna also was an active teach-

er of our Hellenic School ministry. Please view a short

slideshow, which was prepared by one of our Hellenic

School families, with photos of Tulio with Yanna,

Emilio and other family members and friends on our

St. Nicholas Facebook site at

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=9077560692

74671&set=vb.117844288265857&type=2&theater

(there is no need to have a Facebook account to watch

the slideshow video) ... Please share this information

with parishioners you think may want to know.

Please keep Yanna, their eight-year old son Emilio

and the rest of the extended family in your prayers

during this difficult time.

ΖΩΗ ΣΕ ΜΑΣ - Zoh-EE Seh Mas - Life to all of us ...

On March 15 we held a 1-year memorial for Chris

Varellan, brother of Anne Bakalis Pinkston and Theo

(Uncle) of Debra Bakalis Rallis. May his memory be

eternal!

On March 15 we held a 40-day memorial for Kon-

standinos “Gus” Tsingelis and Athanasios Papoulias.

May their memories be eternal!

With the Saints, give rest to the souls of Your servants, where there is no pain, sorrow, or suffering, but life

eternal.

SAVE THE DATE

May 15, 16, 17, 2015

Greek Festival

May 28, 2015

Philoptochos End of Year

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submit your completed form to the Church

Office. We would LOVE to see all children be able

to attend.

Students & Parents: Please tear out page 12 to take to your school’ s Administra-

tion Office for permission to be out of school for Holy

Friday.


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2015 Stewards as of March 14, 2015

Dimopoulos, Vasilios

Dodge, Nicholas & Khristina

Dukas, Nota

Emanuelson, Fr. Jon &

Presbytera Barbara

Flowers, Larry & Helen

Fokakis, George

Fragakis, John & Sophia

Frankos, Dr. Mary

Gerry, Despina

Haralambous, Irene

Jefferies, Phil & Irene

Kaprantzas, Christos & Eleni

Karonis, Yianni & Evyenia

Katris, Gus

Kefalas, Thalia

King, Lee & Doris

Kirkby, Matthew & Melissa

Koklanaris, Emmanuel & Lambra

Kratsa, Perry Caleb & Anita Nagy

Kruczko, Serge Mark & Ashlee

Lazaridis, Nick & Nena

Lionikis, Emmanuel & Athanasia

Logothetis, Anestis & Constance

Maggio, Evelyn

Malahais, Peter & Courtney

Manolukas, John

Manolukas, Dr. Peter & Joan

Marmaras, Mary

Maroudis, Xenophon

Saffo, Nick & Tia

Saffo, Peter & Kimberly

Saffo, Tony & Jamie

Schaefer, Robert & Rena

Skandalakis, Angelique

Skandalakis, Kay

Skinner-Darby, Patricia

Sljaka, Sophie

Snow, David & Daphne

Souflas, Thomas & Linda

Spyropoulos, Maria

Stasios, James & Maria

Theophilos, Plato & Renee

Triantafillopoulas, Konstantinos & Debbie

Tsingelis, Chris & Angie

Tsingelis, Konstandinos

Vallianos, Stella

Vogiatzis, Ioannis & Barbara

Vogiatzis, Vasilios & Sotirou, Irene

Voneiff, George & Irene

Wall, Mary Ann

Whitley, John & Helen

Wickersham, Donald Ross

Wiersteiner, Sam & Kyriaki

Zezefellis, Effie

Angeledes, Angelo & Evelyn

Batis, John & Emily

Batounis, John & Nancy

Berrehamn, Meleshaw & Gebremskal,

Kidane

Bostic, Michael & Tina

Brilakis, Antony & Shirley

Brown, Doug & Argie

Cranidiotis, Chris & Joy Faulk

Dandulakis, Gregory & Kimberly

Demas, Ronald & Sharon

Dentiste, Angela

Diakogiannis, Ifigenia

Diakogiannis, Yianni

Dimopoulos, Pete & Katherine

Dimopoulos, George

Dimopoulos, Maria

Mayorga, Ed & Kathleen

Mayorga, Sia

McGowan, Calvin & Diane

McTaggart, Micaiah & Stella

Miliotis, Emanuel & Mary Beth

Nashed, Neemat

Papakidis, Maria

Papanicolaou, Lambros & Niki

Papanikolau, Efstratios & Sandra

Pappayliou, George

Patsalos, Nick & Joyce

Pekatos, Spero & Lucy

Pinkston, Anne

Rallis, Michael & Debra Bakalis Rallis

Reynolds, Rick & Barbara

Saffo, Doky & Despina

Saffo, Marian & Marika


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