The single best way for us to pray for our friends and loved ones is to arrange for them to be remembered at the Divine Liturgy. We serve approximately 130 Divine Liturgies per year, so your friends or loved ones will be prayed for approximately ever three days as a rule at St. Vladimir's. Please visit the page linked below to learn more and to arrange for your friends and loved ones to be commemorated at the Divine Liturgy at St. Vladimir’s

COMMEMORATIONS AT ST. VLADIMIR'S

All are welcome at St. Vladimir's! Pleae join us this Sunday! More information can be found at this link, and we encourage you to share this with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers!

DIVINE SERVICES FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2019

Thank you to all who joined us for the special parish meeting on Sunday, August 18! At this meeting Mikhail Fisenkov was elected parish Treasurer. We thank him for his willingness to serve our community! We also had a very nice information sharing session regarding our income and expenses for the first two quarters of 2019, as well as a very good discussion about tithing, establishing recurring donations, and the need to support our parish whether we are present in the church or on vacation on Sundays. If you would like to learn more about how you can help please visit our Treasurer’s Corner page or see any of our Parish Council members:

TREASURER CORNER
You can also visit our Donate Page to establish a recurring donation:

DONATE PAGE

His Eminence Archbishop Peter will join us on August 28, 2019 for the official ground breaking for the Ann Arbor Orthodox Classical Academy, our parish day school. Please save the date now! Vespers will be held at 6:00 p.m., followed by a festive procession to the building site, the official ground breaking, and a reception. More information about the Ann Arbor Orthodox Classical Academy can be found at the school web site:

ANN ARBOR ORTHODOX CLASSICAL ACADEMY WEB SITE

Please plan to join us on Wednesday evening, August 28!

INFORMATION TO SHARE

An anonymous donor has made a $1,000 Matching Grant available for a special collection for our Zoe for Life joint ministry with St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. This is for donations to St. Vladimir made from now until the end of the Liturgy on Sunday, August 25, 2019 and designated for Zoe for Life. We will hold a special collection on August 25 in support of this matching grant, but if you would like to make a donation before then please give your donation to our Treasurer, Mikhail Fisenkov or our Starosta, Jack Mitchell. We thank our anonymous donor and all who will give to help Zoe for Life, a pan-Orthodox effort that helps mothers to decide not to abort their children by providing them with material support they need for their child. If you would like to learn more about Zoe for Life please contact Fr. Gregory, Addie Lanterman, or Leta Nikulshina. Volunteers are always welcome and needed for this important ministry!

PLEASE JOIN US AS YOUR PERSONAL SCHEDULE ALLOWS!

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2019 ALL-ENGLISH SCHEDULE

We present here a short educational offering for both children and adults on the upcoming Sunday's principle Gospel reading so that all can better prepare for the Divine Services. Parents are asked to review the children’s portion with their children. It is very important for us to attend the Divine Services on Sundays and whenever else we are able, but in addition it is our spiritual responsibility to educate ourselves and our families in the faith. It is our hope that this mid-week offering will be an aid in this regard. Please contact Fr. Gregory with questions or suggestions.

For Adults: from the writings of Blessed Theophylact

For Children: from the Antiochian Archdiocese (various age groups)

The Walk of Life, the 20-mile pilgrimage walk sponsored by our Diocesan Youth Committee returns to St. Vladimir’s this Labor Day weekend. YOUR HELP WILL BE NEEDED! We need volunteers to help with safety on the route, to help set up and break down the overnight camping area at Rogers’ farm, to set up the church and execute the Divine Services at Rogers’ farm, to execute the extra services at St. Vladimir’s surrounding this event (Friday evening/Saturday morning and Sunday evening/Monday morning), and more! Please sign up here:

WALK OF LIFE VOLUNTEER SIGN UP
If you would like to participate as a pilgrim/walker, please register here:

WALK OF LIFE PILGRM/WALKER SIGN UP
If you have questions please contact Fr. Gregory. Yes – this is only a few weeks ahead of the festival and those who are working hard on the festival should not feel that they need to help with this event. But those who are NOT working hard on the festival SHOULD feel that they need to help with this event – an event that is so important for our parish, deanery, and diocesan youth. Please pitch in – many hands make light work!

What non-perishable food items should we bring to St. Vladimir’s? Food Gatherers makes these suggestions – please help those who are food insecure this Sunday by bringing these (or any) non-perishable food items with you to Liturgy!

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The Lenten period in preparation for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God begins August 14. It is our tradition to make IOCC School Kits (to help kids in countries that need to bring their own school supplies to school in order to attend school) during this Lenten period. We’ll do the same this year. On Sunday, August 18 we will have a special collection to support this effort. If you can’t make it that day please contact Marina Edwards to make your donation. On Saturday, August 24 we will make the school kits following the Divine Liturgy (starting about 10:30 a.m.). This is an important effort to get our KIDS involved in. They will be helping their peers in other countries to be educated. Please plan to join us in supporting this important effort!