With the weekend thaw the parking lots will be muddy this Sunday. Those who would like their vehicles valet parked should enter the property via the old driveway (take an immediate left after entering the new driveway) and stop at the entrance to the church. Our Brotherhood members will then safely park your car for you and return your keys to you. During lunch the Brotherhood will again be on duty to fetch your car for you. We thank you for your patience as we battle the elements and various government regulations (for instance, spring road weight restrictions on trucks that haul gravel) that make it a challenge for us to get the parking lots covered with gravel or otherwise assure that the parking lots are not muddy. We continue to work with our contractors to fix this problem and hope to have it solved in the next week or two.

Please see the schedules below today, mark these dates on your calendar, and then plan to join us for our Parent Group and/or our Adult Discussion Group as your personal schedule allows.

Schedule – Parents Group:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/flyers/parentsgroup.pdf

Next Parent Group More info/RSVP:

http://goo.gl/forms/PWGAcUhGxV

Schedule – Adult Group:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/flyers/adultgroup.pdf

Next Adult Discussion Group More info/RSVP:

http://goo.gl/forms/0khpJYMbvm

Last year we had a small committee help Fr. Gregory and Nathan plan our St. Vladimir's day festivities. That worked very well! This year is our 35th anniversary as a parish and we'd like to form another smallish committee to help plan. We will have a lot of guests this year, including at least one bishop visiting from Russia with Bishop Peter's blessing (of course Vladyka Peter will be here too!). Please contact Fr. Gregory or Nathan if you can help. We would like to form the committee before Great Lent, which begins on March 14.

If you have been helping us with the greeter ministry or if you would like to join (and be honest – you know you do!) we will hold a meeting for the greeters after liturgy this Sunday and YOU ARE INVITED! If you would like to learn more, or if you would like to be included on the greeter schedule but can't make it to the meeting this Sunday please email info@stvladimiraami.org Teens and older are welcome and we ask parents to facilitate their child's attendance. See you Sunday!

Please join us for our monthly Young Adult Dinner Group on February 28, 2016! Usually Fr. Gregory leads these meetings, but this time we have a special guest: Metropolitan Jonah! RSVP and lean more at this link:

http://goo.gl/forms/L6et4t7uYe

His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah will visit St. Vladimir's Saturday and Sunday February 27 and 28 with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Peter, Administrator of our Diocese. Vigil on February 27 will begin at 5:00 p.m. with Divine Liturgy on February 28 at 9:00 a.m. Please make plans now to join us for the Divine Services and please stay after the Liturgy on Sunday for a banquet in the Metropolitan's honor at which he will give the inaugural lecture for our 2016 Great Lenten Lecture Series. We look forward in your participation in what is sure to be a great weekend at St. Vladimir's!

Flier about the Metropolitan's visit to share:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/bishopvisitsflyer.pdf

As we prepare for our annual meeting on March 6 is it important that those who have not yet paid their 2015 membership dues in fact do this to participate in the meeting. And given our membership dues are not too much ($55/year for a working adult and $27.50 for non working adults) why not just take care of 2016 now too? By joining St. Vladimir's you show your visible support of the parish which nourishes you and your family spiritually. We all hope the parish will be there when we need it (for marriages, funerals, baptisms, etc.). By joining the parish we support it both spiritually and financially. To renew your membership or to become a new member, please contact one of our membership coordinators: Vasiliy Krivtsov (vasiliy.krivtsov@gmail.com or 734-669-8712) or Dmitry Knysh (dmitriknysh@hotmail.com or 734-358-5996) or Konstantin Poplavsky (734-944-4087 or 419-344-2071). We cordially invite you to join our parish family!

Please find our membership form here – you can just fill this out and return to one of the membership coordinators:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/membershipform.pdf

Getting ready for camp! Seems too early right? HARDLY! We want our kids to be REALLY ready - to prepare themselves well so they can pass the tests and receive awards at camp. By preparing now we hope to have our kids in the best position to shine this summer! And these meetings give some of our senior campers the opportunity to exhibit leadership by organizing these educational meetings. Please join us!

More information/RSVP:

http://goo.gl/forms/d25xqIFDdg

We would like to keep the parish church open daily at certain set hours. Perhaps something like 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. daily. This would allow everyone to know for certain that at least during that time they could come and pray, light candles, and otherwise seek the solace that can only be found in God's house. But we need volunteers to help us with this project. Could you help? Would you be willing to commit to being at the church at a set time weekly? Most certainly the volunteers will also benefit from this service to their fellow believers and a little more time spent in church each week. Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help, and with suggestions about the best time for the church to be open. This is an important missionary activity - please help if you can!

Each year following the feast of the Theophany (the Lord’s Baptism – January 19) it is a traditional and pious custom to have one’s home blessed by the priest. Homes are blessed at St. Vladimir’s until the beginning of Great Lent. Please consult the link below to see the times available for house blessings. Please contact Fr. Gregory to schedule a house blessing or if the times listed do not work for you. If you live far from St. Vladimir’s please consult with those other parishioners of St. Vladimir’s who live near you so that you can all have your homes blessed on the same evening. Congratulations to all with the feast of our Lord’s Baptism!

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/houseblessing2016.pdf