Beginning with this month we will post a quarterly survey asking our parishioners to provide feedback about our parish. We value your opinion! The survey will be open for the month of June. It will then be open again in September, December, March, and June. The beauty of this survey is that it is fully anonymous! We estimate that the survey should take less than five minutes – please take the survey at the link below today - your opinion matters!

And to sweeten the deal: a $25 Amazon gift card will be randomly awarded to one of those who takes the survey. You must take the survey to be eligible. So please take the survey today!

http://goo.gl/forms/NPaEABIAEf

Please join us for our April cycle of all English services this Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. Don't forget: 9:00 a.m.! Join us! Invite friends and loved ones! Help spread the good news of the Orthodox Faith in our region!

It is our turn again to help the folks out at Alpha House by preparing a meal for them. This will take place on June 28. Please plan to join us! If you'd like to help please see Addie Lanterman in church or send a note to info@stvladimiraami.org This is a very rewarding experience - helping others for the sake of Christ. Please join us!

Mary Ann's 40th day is June 25. On that day we will meet at her grave at Forest Hill Cemetery at 6:00 p.m. to serve a pannykhida. If the weather looks questionable that day we will have the pannykhida at church. How will you know where to go? Check our web site at 4:00 p.m. that day. If we will move the service to the church a note will be posted there and an email sent out by 4:00 p.m. that day at the latest. IF THERE IS NO ANNOUNCEMENT/EMAIL WE WILL MEET AT THE GRAVE. You can also call Fr. Gregory if you are not sure.

Follow us on vKontakte! Find us here:

http://vk.com/stvladimirchurchrocor

Are you on vKontakte? Would you be willing to help our parish establish a presence there? We want to help those seeking a church home to find us – and we think in addition to our Facebook presence vKontakte will help us with this goal. Please help if you can! Contact Fr. Gregory to learn more.

Have you missed a Divine Service? Or do you know miss one soon? Please know that all Divine Services are posted on our sound blog, Sound of the Parish, at this link:

http://soundoftheparish.blogspot.com/

At that link you can also find The Path, lectures, and other pertinent sound files. Please visit today!

Once we have completed our festival and recovered for a week or so we are going to begin a new program at St. Vladimir's and WE NEED YOUR HELP. This program is called “The Way” and it is an introduction to Orthodox Christianity for those interested, and a great opportunity for those of us who are already Orthodox to learn more about our faith. The Way will be held at St. Vladimir's every Monday at 6:00 p.m. from September 28 through December 14. Yes – that is 12 whole weeks! And we need lots of volunteers. People will be needed to help prepare meals, lead discussion groups at the Monday sessions, and help with logistics. First and foremost we need a leader – someone to oversee the whole thing and organize the volunteers. This will be a great opportunity for our parish to introduce many new people to our Orthodox Faith – if we do it right. And with God's help and our hard work we WILL do it right! Please contact Fr. Gregory if you can help and especially if you are willing to be the leader. We need to get started on this now so when September 28 rolls around our church will be full of excited learners! Please join us as we run The Way! Learn more about the web site below:

http://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/courses/courses_way.html

Did you know we have a parish mission statement? In fact we do. The Parish Council worked this through several years ago. This is published every Sunday in our weekly bulletin, but in case you haven't seen it lately we post it here.

"The mission of St. Vladimir Orthodox Church is to gather Orthodox Christians of all nationalities and backgrounds, as well as all those desiring to embrace the Orthodox Christian Faith, as a parish family for mutual spiritual support and the salvation of our souls. We strive to emulate in our lives, and especially in our parish family, the relationship between the persons of the Holy Trinity as the highest and most profound example of love."

Thank you to all who made our extraordinary meeting on Sunday, Jun 14 such a success. Reports were heard from our Brotherhood and Church School, and our Starosta, Nathan Longan, gave us updates on our building project and the 2015 parish festival. Alexandre Alexandrov was reelected Secretary of the Parish Council, while Dimitry Knysh and Kurt Stevens were reelected as Parish Council Trustees. Subdeacon Methodius Chwastek and Mark Chaffee were elected as parish representatives to the Diocesan Assembly slated for October 2015. Thank you to all for your willingness to serve the parsih in these important positions! May the Lord give you strength and wisdom with your duties!

We often say that the Divine Services are the most important ministry that we have at St. Valdimir's. The services are theology in action and very important for our salvation. To help our parishioners better understand the Divine Services, and thus get more out of them, we present this excerpt from the "Law of God" but Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy. Please see Fr. Gregory or Fr. Michael with questions about this or other spiritual topics.

http://stvladimiraami.org/pamphlets/divineservices.pdf