Registration is open for the Walk of Life procession over the Labor Day Weekend! Please visit the link below for more information and register now!

http://goo.gl/forms/QHpB75DC6T

MORE THAN 35 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED - DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE - REGISTER NOW!!!

Flyer for event to share (PLEASE SHARE!):

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/flyers/wa ... 5flyer.pdf

St. Vladimir's has become a construction site. Excavation work on our new driveway, parking lots, and pole barn has begun and there are lots of heavy equipment and construction materials in our fields. Construction materials and heavy equipment are HUGE temptations for the little ones. They would love to climb on it, play in it, and generally do all sorts of unsafe things. That is not their fault - they are children! But the adults - PARENTS ESPECIALLY - but all adults in the parish need to keep an eye on the kids and make sure they stay away from these potentially dangerous things. Please have a talk with your kids before you next come to St. Vladimir's and make it clear that they are to stay away. But adults - whether it is your child or not - please step in if a child is in a dangerous place. Thank you all for seeing to it that phase one of our project is positive and safe for all!

Our parish practice is to serve one cycle of Divine Services per month (Friday Evening Services and Saturday Divine Liturgy) completely in English. This is a missionary effort designed to allow those who are interested in Orthodox Christianity to more easily access the beauty of the Divine Services – the “theology in action” of the Holy Church. However, ALL ARE WELCOME at these services! Please invite friends and loved ones! Let us work together to no longer allow Orthodox Christianity to be the best kept secret in the spiritual life of North America! Please join us this evening at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. for this month's cycle of all-English services!

We need volunteers from St. Vladimir's to help with the Labor Day Cross Procession! We need medical staff, folks to help cook the food, folks to drive the chase vehicles, and much more! Please contact Subdeacon Methodius Chwastek to volunteer or email info@stvladimiraami.org! See Methodius this Sunday or even better – email right now!

As is our usual practice, with Bishop Peter's blessing our parish will closed for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (this evening at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.). We will join our sister parish, the Dormition Cathedral in Ferndale, MI for their patronal feast day. PLEASE JOIN US! Bishop Peter will lead the Divine Services at the Cathedral for the feast. The address of the cathedral is:

2101 Livernois St.
Ferndale, MI 48220

We hope to see you there!

More information about this last of the 12 great feasts of the Church Year can be found at the links below.

English:

http://oca.org/saints/lives/2015/08/15/ ... and-ever-v

Russian:

http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life4444.htm

As is our usual practice, with Bishop Peter's blessing our parish will closed for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (this Thursday evening and Friday morning). We will join our sister parish, the Dormition Cathedral in Ferndale, MI for their patronal feast day. PLEASE JOIN US! Bishop Peter will lead the Divine Services at the Cathedral for the feast. The address of the cathedral is:

2101 Livernois St.
Ferndale, MI 48220

We hope to see you there!

Please help us to raise sponsorships for our 2015 parish festival by visiting our festival brochure at the link here:

http://stvladimiraami.org/flyers/2015fe ... ochure.pdf

This may be printed out and passed on to businesses you frequent. Do not UNDERESTIMATE your relationship to these businesses. They know you – and most are happy to help IF THEY ARE ASKED. And this is what we are asking you to do – ask and encourage them to support us.

If you or someone you know would like to support the festival by making an on-line donation you can do that by visiting this link and clicking on the “Sponsorship” in the “Links” box.

Thank you for your help and support!

The funeral for our sister in Christ Vera Politis will be at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Ann Arbor at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 24. Please join us for the service if you are able and if not – please remember Vera in your prayers at this time especially.

A young boy named Denis Chubanyuk from the former Soviet Union was cared for Beaumont Royal Oak several years ago for a very rare disease. Please find more information at the link below including how you can help him return for his next treatment, without which his life will be in grave danger. Thank you in advance for you support!

https://www.facebook.com/GiveDenisHope

Last night Vera Politis reposed in the Lord. It is likely that many of you did not know Vera. She was married to a Greek gentleman and they attended St. Nicholas Church. However, Vera was active in the founding and early years of our parish. She was one of the many people to contributed to the nascent St. Vladimir parish, helped to get it on its feet, and allowed it to become what it is today. Thus, even if we did not know Vera we should be thankful for her efforts and remember her in our prayers among the newly reposed. I have added her to our parish prayer list, which you can find at this link:

http://www.stvladimiraami.org/SundayRea ... erlist.pdf

Vera's funeral will be at St. Nicholas Church and we will share the details of the funeral with you as they are known. May her memory be eternal!