Saint Stephen the Protomartyr Antiochian Orthodox Church

SAINT STEPHEN THE PROTOMARTYR -Come out to the Parish Life Conference over July 4th weekend to cheer on our Teen Bible Bowl ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH team. The conference is in Long Island, NY sponsored by St.John the Divine Antiochian Church. 609 LANE AVE., SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ 07080 News from Our Church School: TEL. (908) 756-0410 - www.ststephenchurch.net Hello from St. Stephen's Church School! THE V. REV. Fr. STEPHEN TEWFIK, PASTOR - TEL. (908) 654-4301 Registrations for fall Church School Classes are being collected. Please fill out a form for each child JULY, 2015 NEWSLETTER in your family today. Classroom substitute teachers and Christmas Pageant Coordinators are being The Epistle and the Gospel Readings sought please volunteer your time & talents!! Classroom teachers are Kh.Beba Tewfik/Crystal Sunday, July 5 th Epistle: Gal. 5:22-6:2 Sunday, July 19 th Epistle: Titus 3:8 to end Senour, Mrs. Pat Sebastiano, Mr. Ted Mandalakis, Nadi Atalla, Camille Waser (Creative Arts), Mrs. 5th Sunday after Gospel: Mt. 8:28-34; 9:1 Sunday of the Holy Gospel: Mt. 5:14-19 Janet Awadalla & Mrs.Rouba Deifallah, Mrs. Sandy Hatrack & Ms. Nadine Atalla & Ms. Amanda Pentecost Tone: Four Fathers of the 4th Tone: Six have offered once again to graciously help with the Christmas Pageant. Ecumenical Council We hope you are all enjoying your summer vacation! Sunday, July 12 th Epistle: Rom. 12:6-14 Sunday, July 26 th Epistle: Gal. 3:23-4:5 Congratulations to our Creative Arts Festival 2015 Winners!! Please attend the Convention over July th 6th Sunday after Gospel: Mt. 9:1-8 The Great Martyr Gospel: Mt. 14:14-22 4 to collect your awards from the Bishop & represent St. Stephen the Protomartyr Church!! Pentecost Tone: Five Paraskeva & 8th Tone: Seven Arts Category: Julie Salloum- 5th Grade-3rd Place Sunday of Matthew Remy Salloum- 9th Grade-1st Place ______Sophia El Choueri - 11th-Grade 2nd Place (Please see St. Stephen’s Monthly Calendar for daily services for July) Photography: Anthony Poerio - Grade 1-3rd Place -The Parish Council Meeting will be held on Sunday July 12th at Father’s old office. Benjamin Awadalla -Grade 3 - 1st Place -Congratulations to Vassili & Cierra for their wedding on May 3rd. Vassili is the son of Michael and Julie Salloum - 5th Grade - 2nd Place Nadia Elzahr. MABROOK. Remy Salloum - 9th Grade- 3rd Place -Congratulations to Alex and Elizabeth Balish on the baptism of their daughter Lucille on June 6th. Thank you to all of our students for participating. She is also the granddaughter of Joan Balish. MABROOK. We look forward to a wonderful new ecclesiastical Church School Year. Happy Feast of St.Peter & -Our Annual Dinner & Dance Party date was changed from June to November 7th. More Paul. May God bless your families abundantly. information to follow as we get closer to the set date. News from Our Teen SOYO: - 2015 Parish Life Conference . The parishioners of St. John Antiochian Orthodox Church in -The teens are studying the life of St. Raphael and plan to compete in the Bible Bowl at the Parish Levittown, NY invite you to join them in celebrating the 64th Eastern Dioceses Parish Life Life Conference. We are working on putting together a team. Conference. It will take place at the UPSKY Long Island Hotel located at 110 Vanderbilt Motor News from Our Women Group: PKWY, Hauppauge, NY 11788 from July 1st to July 5th. There will be many different activities for -On May 31st the Women Group shared a delightful fellowship luncheon; we enjoyed the company young and old at this conference. For more information, go to www.antiochian.org/festivals. and the meal at Sahara Restaurant. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHURCH WILL BE OPENED ON JULY 5th. -The next scheduled meeting, God willing, will be in September. -Amanda Elsabee would like to thank all the ladies that baked home goodies to support “Children’s IOCC (International Orthodox Christian Charities) News Corner” at the Annual Festival and the entire Saint Stephen Parish for supporting the Bake Sale. -IOCC is providing urgent humanitarian relief for the 200 people affected by the torrential flooding -Block Email: Any parishioner who wants to send a block email to all parishioners must first send in Georgia, and also is working with the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church. it to Fr. Stephen for approval. Fr. Stephen would then send it to Rosemary Kattas (Church -To help those in need or to find out more about IOCC, go to www.IOCC.org Secretary) to send it to all parishioners. Preparation for Holy Communion: -Our Annual International Festival will be held on September 18th-20th. Michael Salloum is -Only Orthodox Christians who are prepared may approach the Holy Chalice. Please remember to chairing it, and he will need all your help. Please invite your family and friends to come and have have respect as we are processing forward to receive Holy Communion. This is a solemn time for good time. humility, prayer and silence. Please approach the Holy Chalice “In the fear of God and in faith and in love.” -Our Annual Gift Raffle Auction will be held on Saturday October 24th in our Church Hall. Gift Certificates from Shop Rite are available. Please see Alice Hossary or Claude Zaki. Claude Zaki and Lily Su will chair this event. In the mean time we need many gifts to be raffled. MANY THANKS : Please, if you received gifts that you know you don’t need and will never use, how about donating it -To Khouriya Beba for donating the new 4 paper towels dispensers and to Jo Keepers for ordering for this good cause? All monetary donations are greatly appreciated. This event will need a lot of and installing them. gifts and a lot of preparation. Please be generous. -To May Elias for baking the prosphora. News from the Parish Council : -To Marie Samaan for donating the olive oil. -Our coffee machine is now fixed! You can now make the exact amount of cups you requested. Please keep the machine leveled.