april 2014 monthly newsletter

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church! ! !! ! !! !

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

www.stnicholaswilmington.org

Great and Holy PaschaApril 20, 2014

April 2014

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church April 2014

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Fr. Jon Emanuelson Parish Priest

Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.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.orgFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/StNicholasWilmington

2014 PARISH COUNCILOfficers MembersEmanuel Miliotis (President) Kim Dandulakis Maria StasiosEvangelos Fragos (Vice President) Peter Malahias Tina BosticIrene Sotiriou Vogiatzis (Secretary) Debbie Rallis John BurgeeBarbara Reynolds (Treasurer) Nick Saffo

CHURCH STAFFDaphne M. Snow, Parish Office Administrator

PARISH MINISTRY TEAM

Religious Education...Richard Reynolds, Ministry ChairAdult Education...Richard ReynoldsYouth Catechism...Courtney Malahias, DirectorBookstore/Library...Mary Ann WallOratorical Festival...Courtney Malahias

Hellenic Culture...Kitsa Wiersteiner, Ministry ChairHellenic School...Anetis Logothetis, Acting DirectorRomiosini Dance Group...Zaharoula KatsikisZoyra Dance Group...Kitsa WiersteinerChoral...Dr. Michael RallisSpecial Activities...Kitsa Wiersteiner

Youth Diakonia...Koula Katsikis, Ministry ChairGOYA...Dr. David Snow, Irene Sotiriou Vogiatzis,Mary Beth Miliotis, Tina Bostic, AdvisorsHOPE/JOY...Eleni Pappamihiel

Liturgical Life...Dr. Michael Rallis, Ministry ChairLiturgical Music...Dr. Michael RallisAcolytes (Altar Boys)...Doug BrownNeokoros/Sexton...T. Keith Anderson

Communications - Technology Ministries...Alexandros Theodoropoulos, Ministry Group LeaderWebmaster...Alexandros TheodoropoulosPublications...Daphne Snow & Stella McTaggartTechnology...Alexandros TheodoropoulosMedia/Community Relations...Beth Burgee, Debbie Rallis, Alexandros Theodoropoulos

Parish Family Life...**Volunteer Needed**Parish Life Night...**Volunteer Needed**Men’s Group...Rick ReynoldsWomen’s Group...**Volunteer Needed**Forever Young...Stella VallianosLOVE...Stella McTaggart

Outreach & Evangelism...Diane McGowanOCF...Fr. Jon & Alexandros Theodoropoulos Hospitality...Ed & Kathleen MayorgaCommunity Service...Sia Mayorga Parish Care...**Volunteer Needed**Philoptochos...Thalia Kefalas, Chapter PresidentStewardship...Debbie Rallis

From The Desk of Father Jon

Towards the Healing of Wounds

In our life in Christ, we often times are in various stages of healing. The wounds we bare come from different sources, but the root of them all is the evil one. Ever since the fall of mankind in Paradise and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, mankind has suffered afflictions.

As Orthodox Christians, we know that healing is possible through the saving Passion of Christ on the Cross, and His glorious Resurrection on the third day. Jesus is the last blood sacrifice, the living sacrifice, the true and holy Pascha, the One who takes away the sins of the world. We are drawing near to the Great and Holy Week. Let us seek out the healing that comes to us by the grace of God in the sacraments, the holy mysteries of our Orthodox Church. First, if you have not set aside time for confession, please come early or stay late to any of the services between now and Holy Week. You can also call my cell phone and set a time to confess and be forgiven. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is waiting for you with open arms! There are no words to describe the joy and the elevation of your soul that comes after God’s blessed forgiveness. Second, make sure you attend Holy Unction on Wednesday afternoon or the Bridegroom Orthros on Wednesday evening. In the Holy Unction service you will hear all the mercies of God in the readings of the Epistles and Gospels, as well as the blessed hymnology. Please consider all your sins and ask God to wash all blemishes from your soul and body in the anointing with the Holy Unction. Third, come and renew your soul by partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Make certain to forgive and seek forgiveness from all around us. Let all offenses be let loose. Let all grudges be washed away with tears. May the grace of God’s healing be given to you by striving to approach for Holy Communion in humility. Lastly, I know that many of us have been away from God for some time. I have a message for you. YOUR EXILE IS OVER! It is too late to wait! Like the Prodigal Son, our Father in Heaven will receive you back. I am throwing out the life preserver – Come back to the Orthodox Church and find healing and peace. Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.” For all who are not currently in good standing in the Church, I say, “Let me help you be reconciled.” Healing is a blessed experience. It brings peace and light to the soul. If you need to be married in the Orthodox Church, come to the office and let us find a date. If you need a Church divorce, come to the office and let us get started on the paperwork. If you need forgiveness, come to confession. If your current spiritual circumstances deem that you refrain from participating in the sacraments, then run, don’t walk, to the church so I can help you. I will not rest until all that can and should be done, IS done. Our love for God and each other should know no bounds. Please seek out God’s healing grace as soon as possible.

Καλό Πάσχα καὶ καλή Ἀνἀσταση! – Fr. Jon Emanuelson


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From Emanuel Miliotis,Parish Council President

Looking back to March, I wanted to speak about two events which our community hosted.• First on March 15th we had Fr. Charles Joanides lead a marriage enrichment workshop. We had 28 of our

parishioners attend. Couples ranged from 1 yr to 45 yrs of marriage! It was a fun and a fulfilling Saturday afternoon. Fr. Jon wants to do something similar in the near future. We will try to increase our promotion if we do this again to help increase our reach.

• By the time you will have received this, we will have just wrapped up our March 25th Greek Independence Day celebration. I know that everyone who was there was moved by the children in their poems, songs and dancing. Also want to thank Dr. Kathleen Jewell Anagnost for being the keynote speaker. Additionally, I would like to thank the Hellenic culture and Hellenic School for organizing and guiding this event.

Looking forward I wanted to promote two things:• Lenten services continue. Please see Parish calendar on line or in our newsletter for the latest. A

reminder that Holy week is coming the week of April 13th. Resurrection services will be held Saturday night beginning 11:15pm. As we have done in the past several years, we will be holding Agape services and our parish picnic at Hugh McRae park on Sunday, April 20th. It is a cover dish style and the church will provide the lamb.

• Lastly, we are gearing up for our Festival May 16, 17 & 18. While is an incredible event, it does not happen without the help of 100’s of volunteers. If you are new to the community and haven’t helped before you will enjoy the experience. As we reach out to secure volunteers, please give us as much of your time as you can. The festival has a unbelievable outreach event into the greater Wilmington community.


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Save the Date - May 2014

May 11 - Mother’s Day

May 16, 17, 18 - Greek Festival


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PhiloptochosThalia Kefalas

Last month our General Meeting went very well. We had a lovely discussion about the activities in which we would participate and traditionally continue. This includes the Pascha Preparations which are well underway for our Community. Pascha lilies are now on sale. See a Philoptochos member to place your order. Also, please see any member to purchase Palm Sunday dinner tickets. The fish dinner cost is $12, the Senior dinner is $9, and the spaghetti dinner is only $5.

CommunicationsAlexandros Theodoropoulos

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, the most recent of which are our Hellenic School’s Three Hierarchs celebration, HOPE/JOY events, the St. Stephen’s oratorical festival, the UNCW Annual Intercultural Festival, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, our marr iage/couples workshop, the Chris tmas Presentation by our Youth and the Zoyra/Romiosini Christmas Caroling fundraiser among others. You may access our Online Gallery on our website by following the Multimedia Gallery link on the left pane of the 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 . We would further like to extend special Thanks to all of you that have contributed media content and encourage any of you that happen to have photos and/or videos from our parish life events to send them to us.In addition, please be reminded that our church has a pretty active facebook page that can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/StNicholasWilmington . We are pleased to report that the number of our facebook followers has increased over the last three

years from about 30 to 448! We would appreciate very much any of your efforts to help us further promote our FB page now that such social networking media have been becoming more popular. Also, our church’s email list has been growing as well. We are glad to report that the number of our subscribers has increased, since the time our Communications ministries were formally established about five years ago, from around 40 to 278! In case you know of any parishioners or others that are not in our list and would like to receive our church’s email communications, like our weekly email bulletin and so on, please have them forward their email addresses to our church office.

Furthermore, please take a minute and check on our website the new interactive online format option, in addition to the standard PDF version, for our monthly newsletter. Also, our weekly email bulletin is now using a new format, made available through our Archdiocese’s Internet Ministries, with some nice additional features that now allow, for example, the inclusion of flyers as attachments.Finally, we are currently working to offer a new online donation system for church. More information is forthcoming. Please stay tuned …In case you have any suggestions or feedback that could help us in our continuous effort to improve our communications publications/media please contact our church office at (910) 392-4444 or o ff i ce@stn icho la swi lming ton .o rg o r ou r Communications Chair, at [email protected] .

Youth CatechismCourtney Malahias

“Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow faint.” Isaiah 40:31

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with every encounter I have with a person, and other days I feel so impatient and blah? Usually I make the connection that on those ‘blah’ days, I am not starting my day with prayer and silence. I probably woke up a bit late and had just enough time to get dressed, make lunches, grab my keys and head to work. By afternoon, I am exhausted and then it is like ahhhhhhh…. I didn’t take the time to say thank you and ask for Him to be with me that day. It sure does make a difference! This is especially important to me during the Lenten season and will be my focus in my daily life and in Sunday School with my children. I want to feel like I am soaring on wings like eagles………..this lenten season is about renewing our strength and challenging ourselves to increase our prayer life, almsgiving and fasting.

Sunday School is going well and there is going to be a lot of Lenten activities going on in our classrooms! Be prepared to learn through your children!

We just had Oratorical Festival and WOW! They all

blew us away with their inspiring speeches. It was tough for our judges to decide. We had Sam Weirsteiner and Ron Demas from our parish and we had Tami Yates and Jennifer Reid from St. Basiles to help judge. In the Senior division, Peter Vogiatzis won first prize, Alex Miliotis won second prize and Koula Fragos won third prize. Eliana Fragos and Katerina Katsikas got honorable mention. In the Junior Division George Malahias won first, Nicholas Elfter second, and Demitri Brown won third place. Maia Porzio, Tommy Malahias and George Fragos received honorable mention.

We are so proud of all the children who spoke from their hearts and had the courage to stand in front of their congregation and speak. Our elementary participants were: Talia Porzio, Josh and Nicholas Zaharis and Eli and Georgia Theodoropoulos. They all inspired us so much! We are off to District Festival at St. Lukes parish in Morrisville, NC on April 5th. Please keep them in your prayers as they travel and speak there.

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Hellenic Cultural CommitteeSpecial Activities

On behalf of the Hellenic Cultural Committee, a special thanks to everyone who attended and participated in the Cultural Festival at UNCW on February 22, 2014. It was an exceptional day enjoyed by all participants and visitors who enjoyed our own Hellenic Dancers who performed beautifully as usual.

Our thanks goes to our Committee Members and Volunteers who worked diligently to make this day a success. Special thanks to our Committee Chairman Kitsa Wiersteiner and her helpers Kathy Dimopoulos, Lambra Koklonaris, Dina Koklonaris, Emmanuel and Athanasia Lionikis, Mike and Lola Loizides, Sam Wiersteiner and Joann Simotas for all their help for another successful year.

GOYAEvents for April: April 5: March of Dimes Walk – Hugh MacRae Park 10am and the District Oratorical festival – Morrisville NCApril 12-20: Spring BreakApril 12: Saturday of Lazarus -‐ Youth to sponsor pancake breakfast / palm cross makingApril 12-20: HOLY WEEK/ EASTER – GOYAN Readers / Participants needed for all services.April 18: Good Friday event scheduled for Goyans – More info to followApril 25: Relay for Life – meet by 8:00pm at Ashley High trackApril 26: Earth Day – Community activities - Church clean up dayApril 26: Goyan Luau - Raleigh

For Additional Information please see a GOYAN ADVISOR: Koula Katsikis, Tina Bostic, Mary Beth Miliotis, David Snow, Irene Sotiriou Vogiatzis

JOY/HOPEEleni Pappamihiel

JOY/HOPE had two exciting events over the past two months. In February, we were able to take advantage of one of the warm days and take an historical tour of downtown Wilmington that focused on the history of pirates and ghosts on our waterfront. This event was very well attended and the kids learned a lot about the history of the Port City. Did you know that Front St. used to be the high tide water mark in Wilmington? Do you know that when someone dies they hold a 'wake' and vigil at grave sites so that we don't accidentally bury someone alive? I even heard that Amalia Ponos caught something mysterious in one of her pictures!

We also had a successful event at the Dock Street Theater in March. Zach Hanner led our kids through several interactive role-play activities where they learned about conflict resolution, building healthy relationships with others, and other fun stuff! The kids had a great time, and I hear there may be some budding actors in our congregation.

In April, our JOY/HOPE event will be suspended so that the group can engage with Fr. Jon on Good Friday. In May, JOY/HOPE will be gearing up for the Greek Festival where we will run the Sno Cone/Lemonade booth. Parents, please let Eleni know if you can help out during the festival. We try to have at least 2 parents at the booth at all times. Eleni Pappamihiel will be stepping down in June as the JOY/HOPE advisor, and anyone who is interested in taking over the great ministry should contact Fr. Jon.

LOVEStella McTaggart

Thank you to all of our LOVE parents for sharing the beauty of Lent with their little families this month.

Please note there will be a Nursery Attendant for Holy Friday Lamentations (April 18 from 7-10pm). If a


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Nursery Attendant is required for any other Service so you and your family may attend Services, please contact the Church Office.

On April 24 at 10:00 AM please join us for the next event at the New Hanover County Northeast Library for Story time followed by lunch at Chick-Fil-A at Mayfaire. If the weather is pleasant, we may take that lunch and make a picnic at one of the spots close by.

Please save the date for our May event as it is early in the month. On May 3 Kay Skandalakis will be hosting a playdate at her home. Please check your email and our Facebook page for address, etc. when the event gets closer.

If you would like to be added to our email lists or FB page, please contact Stella McTaggart.

Please remember that all families are welcome to join us for weekday liturgies in the month of April. Please see the entire up-to-date listing on our Church’s website: http://www.stnicholaswilmington.org/ParishCalendar.html.

OCF (Orthodox Christian Fellowship)Campus Ministry

Alexandros Theodoropoulos

On February 22nd, 2014, our OCF group participated with a booth in the 2014 Annual UNCW Intercultural

Festival. During this great and important event, our group received a good amount of exposure while we had the opportunity to interact with a great number of students and visitors and inform/discuss with them about the Orthodox Christian Church and Faith. Many thanks to Nick Syrpis for manning our booth and assisting with the setup and clean up! Please see the photo.

In addition, our group’s next major event will be the screening of the award-winning movie “The Island” at the UNCW Lumina Theater on Sunday, April 6th, 2014. The event will take place from 7pm - 10pm so please mark your calendars. We will be featuring giveaways and a panel with Fr. Jon and Fr. Timothy and/or Fr. Peter from St. Basil and maybe another guest speaker that will discuss aspects of the traditional Orthodox Christian faith that pertain to the film. Furthermore, there will also be a sealed box where passerbys can anonymously fill out scraps of paper with things that they would like to be absolved of and deposit them in that box. At a later date, a ceremonial Orthodox Christian prayer will be offered over them and they well be burned with other religious artifacts following Easter. Please see the pertinent flyer presented on another page of this newsletter.

On another note, the group is currently looking into meeting at 8:30 pm every other Thursday night at our church. The finalized meeting date information will be posted through our other means of communications. Also, the group has informal Open Forum lunch meetings with Fr. Jon and Fr. Timothy (from St. Basil) at the Varsity Cafe in the UNCW Fisher Student Center starting at 11:00 am (please note the change in the time) every Monday. All are welcome to 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 families for our OCF students. The pertinent

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document/form can be found on our website at w w w . s t n i c h o l a s w i l m i n g t o n . o r g / D o c s /OutreachEvangelism/OCF/OCFSponsors.pdf . 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.

Bookstore/LibraryMary Ann Wall

“Christ Said” “Come See”

We’ve gotten in some beautiful Holy Icons for sale, come by and see them. Remember you can order icons & books from our Book store. We have many catalogs you can look through from which you may choose items. Also remember you can check out books from our library on a two week basis. If there are any items you would like to see us carry in the Bookstore please fill out the form in this newsletter and turn it in to the Bookstore. Hours: Wednesday 10-2; Sunday after Divine Liturgy 12-1:30.

Greek Festival2014 Festival Committee

How can I get involved with the 2014 Greek Festival?

There are so many ways to get involved with our 22nd Annual Greek Festival. This has become the largest ethnic festival in the New Hanover County Area and it can only happen with the collective help from everyone. We will have volunteer sign up sheets available and/ or you can attend meetings to see how your help is needed. You can help in so many different ways…the important thing is to JUST get involved. It’s a family affair and everyone in your family can help and do something.If you cook or can help with the kitchen prep work, you can help with everything that is needed to prepare to feed over 10,000 guests during the 3 day weekend of May 16, 17 and 18. Help is not just needed the weekend of the festival, but now, during the planning stages.If you can bake, we would love for you to help

prepare the pastries.Don’t like the heat or the noise outside, you can help make salads or cup pastries, help with church tours, help in the bookstore, or help with cooking demonstations.

Help promote the event to everyone you know; share our Facebook page to your social media channels. Help sell ads in our program book…ask your hair stylist, your banker, your local baker, your favorite restaurant, auto mechanic, physician…they range from as low as $100 up to $1500 and at least half of their money will go back to them with meal tickets, pastry tickets and admission tickets. Please consider sponsoring the ad book yourself. See attached order form. Remember this year’s deadline for the ad book is April 7.

Community News

Pascha Picnic

Volunteers are needed to help prepare the lamb for the Easter picnic. Help is needed the day before and the morning of the picnic. Help is also needed to set up and later clean up. Everyone to please bring in a

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covered dish to share. Please contact the Church Office to volunteer.

Pascha Easter Egg Hunt

This year the families of LOVE are asking for the Community’s assistance for our Annual Easter Egg Hunt after Agape Vespers on Pascha. 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 little fill items include: stickers, tattoos, candy that won’t melt in the sun, miniature stamps, etc.) We would love to have all donations by Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014. If you have any questions, please see Stella McTaggart, Elisabeth Constandy, or Shannon Johns. Kαλή Σαρακοστή.

Congratulations

For those celebrating Name Days, Anniversaries, Birthdays in the month of April we wish you many happy years

Sympathies and Memorials

We would like to extend our condolences to Joanne Simotas, Soula Leray and their families on the Falling Asleep in the Lord of their beloved father Konstantinos Bissas, age 97, of Sparta, Lakonia, Greece, on Friday, February 28th, 2014. Αιωνία του η µνήµη - May his memory be eternal! ΖΩΗ ΣΕ ΜΑΣ - Life to us.

We extend our deepest sympathy to Doris King and family (husband Lee and sons Jacob, Matthew and Henry John) on the falling asleep of her father John Kazanzides of Portland, Maine. May his memory be eternal!

On March 16, 2014 we offered a 40 day memorial for Eirini Frangias, mother of Evyenia Karonis, and

grandmother of Renee Karonis Psilos. This is also the 5 year memorial for Panagiotis Frangias, father of Evyenia Karonis, and the 7 year memorial for Annette, daughter of Evyenia and Yianni Karonis and sister of Renee Karonis Psilos. May their memories be eternal!We extend our deepest sympathies to Doug Brown and his family on the falling asleep of his mother, Nancy Brown, grandmother of Konstandena, Vasili and Demetri. May her memory be eternal.

We extend our condolences to Dr. John Manolukas and family for the loss of his father, Theodore P. Manolukas, age 84, of Youngstown, Ohio. He is survived by his wife Darlene (Muzinich) Manolukas of Boardman, OH, his son Dr. John T. Manolukas of Wilmington, N.C. and his four grandchildren Matthew 26, Theodore 24, Sarah 22 and Julia 21 all of Toledo, OH and Nancy Benedetto Manolukas. He was a distinguished Veteran whose memory will be eternal.

We extend our deepest sympathies on the passing of Chris Varellan, brother of Anne Bakalis Pinkston and loving uncle of Debra Bakalis Rallis. May his memory be eternal.

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

eternal.

2014 Stewards as of March 20, 2014

Anderson, Keith & SallyAngeledes, Angelo & EvelynAndrews, ChrisAthens, DamonBatis, John & EmilyBatounis, John & NancyBostic, Michael & TinaBouboulis, NikolaosBrilakis, Antony & ShirleyBurgee, John & BethBurke, Aaron & MariaCalhoun, Cameron & PamChantiles, Katarina-MariaChantiles, StravrosDandulakis, Gregory & KimberlyDemas, Ronald & SharonDemetriou, Angelo & EmileeDiakogiannis, IfiyniaDiakogiannis, YianiDimopoulos, Pete & KatherineDimov, Stanislav & DianaEmanuelson, Fr. Jon & Presbytera BarbaraFlowers, Larry & HelenFokakis, GeorgeFragakis, John & SophiaFragos, Evangelos & OlympiaGerry, DespinaHaralambous, IreneJefferies, Phil & IreneJohns, Chris & ShannonKatsaros, Constantine & SharonKatris, Angelo & AnastasisKatris, GusKefalas, ThaliaKing, Lee & DorisKoklanaris, Emmanuel & LambraKoumparakis-Botbol, ElaineKrasta, Perry Caleb & Anita NagyLawler, JessicaLionikis, Emmanuel & AthanasiaLogothetis, Anestis & Constance

Malahais, Peter & CourtneyMarmaras, GeorgiaMarmaras, MaryMayorga, Ed & KathleenMayorga, SiaMcGowan, Calvin & DianeMiliotis, Emanuel & Mary BethPapanicolaou, Lambros & NikiPappamihiel, RuthPathenos, AlexiosPinkston, AnnePoulos, DenaPoulos, John & AthenaPoulos, PatriciaProukou, Theodore & KatherineRallis, Michael & Debra Bakalis RallisReynolds, Rick & BarbaraRonner, Tom & ConnieSaffo, Nick & TiaSaffo, Tony & JamieSimotas, Spiro & JoanneSljaka, SophieSnow, David & DaphneSpyropoulos, MariaStasios, James & MariaStephanou, George & PeggyTheophilos, Plato & ReneeThomas, Robert & FlorenceTsangarides, Arthur & WandaTsingelis, Chris & AngiaVallianos, StellaVavalette, Mary AnnVerikios, Mary EllenVogiatzis, Vasilios & Sotirou, IreneWall, Mary AnnWhitley, John & HelenWickersham, Donald RossWiersteiner, Sam & KyriakiZezefellis, Effie


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2014 STEWARDSHIP DRIVE Comp to 2013 STEWARDSHIP DRIVE End of Last Yr Updated with actual giving

Total Stewards as of 3/20/2014 79 44% Total Stewards as of 12/31/2013 178Total $ Pledged $172,854 78% Total $ Pledged $221,5652014 Budget (goal) $244,590 117% 2012 Budget (goal) $208,377Avg $ pledge per steward $2,188 176% Avg $ pledge per steward $1,245% Parish participation to date 40% 44% % Parish participation to date 89%% of total goal 71% 66% % of total goal 106%Total Giving to date $65,784 18% Total Giving to date $231,101Total Giving as %age of Pledges 24% Total Giving as %age of Pledges 104%Total Giving as %age of Goal 17% Total Giving as %age of Goal 111%Families who didn't pledge in 2012 14 Families who didn't pledge in 2011 43** Includes 11 new stewards ** Includes 21 new stewardsPledged in 2013 and not 2014 112 Pledged in 2012 and not 2013 12

Number of families pledging > 2013 40 51% Number of families pledging > 2012 46 26%Number of families pledging < 2013 12 15% Number of families pledging < 2012 28 16%Number of families pledging = 2013 13 16% Number of families pledging = 2012 60 34%New pledgers to 2014 vs. 2013 14 18% New pledgers to 2013 vs 2012 43 24%

2014Pledge breakdown 2013 Pledge breakdown$1-$599 26 33% $1-$599 95 53%

$600-$999 13 16% $600-$999 36 20%$1000-$2499 23 29% $1000-$2499 28 16%$2500-$4999 8 10% $2500-$4999 9 5%

$5,000-$9,999 4 5% $5,000-$9,999 4 2%$10,000+ 5 6% $10,000+ 5 3%


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“Christ is Risen” Join us for the Annual Pascha Picnic followed by Agape Vespers. Pascha Lamb will be provided by our church. Please bring a covered dish & drink to share, your favorite picnic games & lawn chairs.

“COME and SEE!!”

PASCHA EGG HUNT for the youth!! Bring egg baskets! Sponsored by LOVE

AGAPE VESPERS/ PASCHA PICNIC

Hugh MacRae Park, 11AM, Picnic Shelter #6, April 20


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All proceeds benefit the Ikarian Scholarship fund

For additional information contact Vangeli Fragos or Peter Malahias

Please&Join&us…

Chapter&Therma&#10Pan-Ikarian Brotherhood

When: Sunday ~ April 27, 2014

Immediately Following Liturgy

Where:St. Nicholas Hellenic Center

Tickets:$7.00 per plate


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ST. N

ICHOLA

S GREE

K ORTH

ODOX FES

TIVAL MAY 16, 17, AND 18, 2014

PLATINUM LEV

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Prom

inent position of b

anner around

the main tent

Nam

e and logo on menu

Full page prominent program

ad

Announcem

ent by the band through-

out the festival

30 dinner tickets

30 adm

ission tickets

6 pastry boxes

Ad on the festival website

Spon

sorship Am

ount: $1

,500

GOLD

LEV

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Nam

e on menu

Nam

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inently displayed at

entrance and food line

Full page prominent program

ad

20 dinner tickets

20 adm

ission tickets

4 pastry boxes

Ad on the festival website

Spon

sorship Am

ount: $7

50

SILV

ER LEV

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Half p

age prom

inent program

ad

10 dinner tickets

10 adm

ission tickets

2 pastry boxes

Listing on the festival website

Spon

sorship Am

ount: $3

00

BRONZE

LEV

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Quarter p

age prom

inent program

ad

4 dinner tickets

4 admission tickets

1 pastry box

Spon

sorship Am

ount: $1

00

ST NICHOLA

S GREE

K FES

TIVAL SP

ONSO

RSH

IP 2014 CONTR

ACT

Please fill ou

t this form

and

atta

ch you

r check. Tha

nk you

so much for your sup

port!

Contact Nam

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pany/Organization Nam

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Address:

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nd to:

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las Greek Festiv

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orative Albu

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, NC 2

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hanges to past or n

ew ads will cost $25.

A portio

n of our proceeds will be do

nated to th

e Good Sh

epherd Center.


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