Feasts/Services/Activities This Week
Saturday, October 11
✦12pm Youth Group Outing (meet at church)
✦6:30pm Vigil
✦8pm Confessions
Sunday, October 12
✦9am Sunday School
✦10am Divine Liturgy
✦12pm Fellowship (Team I)
✦12:30-1:15pm Bread Ministry (Team B)
✦6-7:30pm HS Girls Meeting
Sunday, October 12, 2014
READINGS FOR TODAY
2 Corinthians 9:6-11
Luke 7:11-16
Tuesday, October 14
✦10am Church Women United Meeting
Phillips Memorial CME,
421 Corral Street, Lexington
Police Chief Ron Bastin & Sgt. R. Berry will
speak on “Gun Violence in Fayette County”
Wednesday, October 15
✦6:30pm Reader’s Vespers
✦7:20pm Christian Education:
“Learning the Services” with Rick Cook
Saturday, October 18
Feast of the Apostle Luke
✦4:45pm Choir Rehearsal
✦6:30pm Great Vespers
✦No Confessions (Fr. Justin away)
Sunday, October 19
✦9am Sunday School
✦10am Divine Liturgy
✦12pm Fellowship (Team II)
✦12:30-1:15pm Bread Ministry (Team C)
✦6-7:30pm HS Girls Meeting
Parish Open House - November 1
Many Thanks to our parishioner, Fireman Chad Greathouse,
for the fire safety training last weekend.
St. Athanasius Orthodox Church
100 Lime Lane
Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356
www.athanasiusoca.org
Office: 859-881-8144
Fr. Justin Cell: 859-361-2823
The Most Blessed Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the OCA
The Most Reverend Archbishop Nikon of Boston,
Locum Tenens of the Diocese of the South
Reverend Justin Patterson, Rector
Building Project Phase 1 Completed! We have been granted final
occupancy and our contractor has finished work. (We do have a
contractor warranty for one year, so we will see them again as problems
develop.) Today, within the Liturgy, we will pray a Moleben of
Thanksgiving to the Lord for his Divine Help in all these things. Please
know that various smaller projects (not involving our contractor) will
continue: iconostasis, frescoes, hanging of photos and pictures,
"figuring out where things go," a fencing project around the future
playground, etc. Our Building Steering Committee will be working
with our treasurer, lawyer, and lender, to finalize the revised mortgage
arrangements and then our BSC will disband. Thanks especially to Bert
Walther, Chris Reeves, and Nathaniel McCallum for their tireless labors
over the past year.
Christian Education Class “Learning the Services” is the topic for the
class this coming Wednesday. Reader Rick Cook will lead the Reader’s
Vespers service at 6:30pm and then teach the class beginning at 7:20pm.
Baby Baskets are being prepared for the Buhler and Gann families. If you
would like to make a monetary donation with cash or check, please place
in envelope clearly marked “Baby Basket” in the tithe box. This is a
ministry of the St. Elizabeth Sisterhood and is coordinated by Mary Cook.
Choir Rehearsal next Saturday at 4:45pm. We will be practicing for the
open house performances.
Budget Update as of Oct. 5
Attendance Oct. 5
Budgeted YTD = $19,280.80
Adults = 56
Offerings YTD = $10,880.00
Children = 42
Difference = ($8,400.80)
Visitors = 12
Open House
only 19 days away!
“But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who
sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” 2 Corinthians 9:6
Welcome Guests and Visitors! Please sign our guest book and let one of the
greeters know you are visiting with us today so Fr. Justin can welcome you at
the end of Liturgy. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have about
our service. Holy Communion is open to all baptized Orthodox Christians who have
fasted from food and water since midnight, had recent Confession, and are at peace with
neighbors.
Fr. Justin Out of the Office this entire coming week. He will be making a
short day-and-a-half visit to Holy Cross Monastery, in West Virginia, for
Confession. On Wednesday, he and his sons will head out to Florida to visit a
couple days with family and attend, next weekend, the 20th Anniversary of his
home parish, St. Justin Martyr. Fr. Justin returns to Nicholasville Tuesday,
October 21.
Next weekend Great Vespers will be served on Saturday, but there will be no
confessions. A visiting clergyman from St. Michael’s Antiochian Church in
Louisville be here on Sunday for Liturgy.
Red Oak Elementary School has asked St. Athanasius to partner with them to
assist the children and families in their school. We are one of only two
churches in the Red Oak district and are certainly the most visible. They have
asked us to consider several ways to help:
1). Add Red Oak leadership and students (generally) to our Prayer List
2). Consider forming a serious prayer group that would take confidential
prayer requests for kids and staff at the school. 3). Be able to assist financially (with groceries and occasionally with some
utilities) certain families in need that the staff of Red Oak might identify,
vouch for, and send to us.
Homemade Baked Items are needed for the bake sale being organized by the
St. Elizabeth Sisterhood for the open house. If you are willing to donate, please
contact Linda Frangedakis. Proceeds will go to Angel Tree Program (Jessamine
County Salvation Army) to help buy Christmas gifts for needy
Weekend
Readers
Servers
Handmaidens
Prosphora
Bread Ministry
Fellowship
Greeters
Counters
Oct. 11-12
Subdeacon
Bert Walther
JP, Liam,
Silas (dk), Jeremiah (dk)
Rebecca Walther
Shannon Cook
Tamara
Patterson
Team B (C & D Gann,
Ben Worthington)
Team I
(Powell)
John Mize
Rebecca Wilson
Tim Powell
Laura Walther
Oct. 18-19
Reader
Ryan Winter
Patrick, Ian, Quincy
Silas (dk), Jared (dk)
Suzannah Reeves
Myra Lourie
Tamara
Patterson
Team C (Tommy
Evans, Olga Saito)
Team II
(Greathouse)
Keith Buhler
Jordan Henderson
Mary Cook, Rebecca
Wilson, Laura Walther
Oct. 25-26
Reader
Rick Cook
Isaiah, Quincy
David (dk), Jeremiah (dk)
Beth Walther
Lilliana Greathouse
Kathryn
Pressley
Team D (Lisa Powell,
Linda Frangedakis)
Team III
(Bradshaw)
Alina & Daniel Rusu
Ellie Sutter, Sarah
Holiday, Tim Powell
Nov. 1-2
Subdeacon
Simeon Siskar
TBA
Robyn Cook
Grace McCallum
Kathryn
Pressley
Team A (Frederica,
Sarah H, Youth)
Team IV
(Walther)
Paul & Linda
Frangedakis
Laura Walther
Rebecca Wilson