May 2025 Newsletter
Newsletter for May 2025

Thank you!
Holy Week thanks..
To Fr Lou, for providing us with a beautiful and memorable Holy Week and Pascha
To Rusty, Natasha, Gordon, Grace, Andrew, Logan, Jamal, and Elise for making the drive to St Andrews in Lubbock for Palm Sunday
To Gordon, Rusty, and Angela for folding palm crosses
To Fr Peter for blessing the palms
To Rex and Svetlana for the gardening and landscaping
To Warren, for installing the faucet in the men's bathroom and fixing the women's sink
To Natasha, Grace, and Angela for decorating the Bridegroom icon
To Dan for fixing the front door
To Samuel and Angela for helping with the Holy Week books
To Sarah for preparing father Lou's snack basket
To Julie and Elise for baking Prosphora
To Angela for making labels for the Holy Unction Oil bottle
To Rania, Shannon Mary, and Grace for donating flowers
To Sarah, Diana, Grace, Stephanie, Shannon Mary, Preston, Aaron and Natasha for decorating the kouvouklion and to Warren, Preston, and Andrew for cutting the floral wire
To the myrrh bearing girls for doing a wonderful job
To Samuel, Preston, Warren, Stephanie, Grace, Rusty, and Natasha for cleaning up the flower petals
To everyone who helped in the procession - Jonathan, Warren, Arlo, Wiley, Holly, Charleigh, Ridley, Eisley, Sophie, Preston, Cole, Samuel, Patrick F, Logan, Nolan, and the chanters
To Warren, Samuel, Preston, Logan, and Madison for assembling the Paschal candles
To Diana for putting together the beautiful Holy Fire candle for Fr Lou
To everyone who brought treats to share for the midnight Pascha feast
To Carl, Julie, Rex, and Rez for preparing the lamb feast
To Stephanie, Audra, Grace, Elise, Natasha, Warren, and Samuel for serving food and cleaning up afterwards
To Scarlett and Wiley for setting up the Easter Egg hunt for the kids
To Dan, Kam, John, Arlo and Wiley for serving in the altar
To Rusty, Grace, Logan, Caleb, Nolan, Patrick, Arlo, John, Ethan, and Jamal for chanting
To Samuel, Warren, Grace, Gordon, Andrew, and Preston for coming early to each service and staying late after it was over and for always willing to offer a hand wherever we needed one
To all the mothers and fathers for bringing their children to church
Announcements
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• Congratulations to the newly illumined the Nuckols family, Kelley family, and Jamal! We have been blessed to have Baptisms and Chrismations on Bright Saturday three years in a row. Thank you, Fr Peter!
• We will be joined by Fr Dan Suciu for a special weekend of services and seminars this month! Please join us. Details will be below on the schedule.
• SignUp link for confessions (Baptized/Chrismated Orthodox Christians only) is here
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Birthdays
Sarah Brittain - May 2nd
Madison Gimpel - May 4th
Christelle Hajje - May 8th
Evie Boston - May 18th
Matt Morelan - May 20th
Cole Nuckols - May 22nd
Natasha Hanson - May 24th
Degen Tessema - May 28th
Grace Dixon - May 29th
Preston McRae - May 31st
Reposed:
May 6th, 2023 - Evangeline “Eve” Botsonis Melotakis
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