St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church 2300 W. Huntington Drive, Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, DE 19808-6900 Rev. Fr. Andrew J. Anderson, Rector (302) 995-6775 Cell (302) 353-6648 www.stmichael-delaware-oca.org Vespers & Confessions: Sat. at 5pm Divine Liturgy: Sunday, 9:00am OCF campus ministry: UD tonight Sunday, April 6th, 2004 (Tone 4) – 4th Sunday of Great Lent St. John Climacus -- St. Eutchius, Patriarch of Constantinople Epistle: Heb 6:13-20 Gospel: Mark 9:17-31 Today’s Readers: 3rd Hour: D. Sulpizi 6th Hour: L. Sulpizi Epistle: M. Sinovich Next week’s Rdrs: 3rd Hour: J. Carpenter 6th Hour: C. Souder Epistle: H. Kutch Prayers for the Sick and the Recovering—To be prayed for during the Service of Preparation (Proskemedia): (Father Andrew’s entire list is in the altar. Please see him if you are requesting extra prayers). Prayers for the Very Sick—(to be mentioned in the Divine Liturgy): Met. THEODOSIUS, Fr. Daniel Ressetar, Fr. Michael Demko, Fr. Sergius Willis, Fr. Dimitry Oselinski, Fr. Eugene Wosniak, Mother Barbara, Olga Riley, Jeanne Kimerer, James Riley, Onufry Zabinko, Stanley (John) Borowski, Barbara Hicks, Frederick Salay, infant Catherine Waisanen, Andrei Zubok, Melissa (Elizabeth) Conover & the child to be born of her, Maria Capparuccini and child to be born of her, Nino Sensor, William Dryden, Ned Minnich, Vasily Obertyschew, Lynn (Elizabeth) Sulpizi, Cindy (Emmelia) Peck, and Marine John (Joe) Elliott. Prayers for the Departed: Metropolitan Laurus, Archpriest Eugene Vansuch, Olga Bodji and Farouk Obeid (Elia family friends).
Please remember to come to Holy Confession before Pascha. Fr. Andrew will be available after every Divine Service from now until Pascha to hear your confession.
We welcome into the Church, the newly-Baptised infant Isabella Poletaev--daughter of Greg & Silvana Poletaev. She was baptized by Fr. Andrew last Friday here at St. Michael’s. “Many Years!”
Sunday School will be held today. Senior class in the rectory’s living room. Parishioners: Please pick up your letter from the Parish Council in the back of the church. We’re Saving Postage.
Please go to our new website www.stmichael-delaware-oca.org to view a fine photo slide show of the Bishop’s visit at the Mission Vespers.
Today’s Mission Vespers will be at 4pm at Saint Demetrios Church in Upper Darby, 229 Powell Lane, Upper Darby, 19082. Homilist: Fr. John Udics. Lcpl. Elliott, Joseph
QRF OCF will be held today at 7pm, at Paul’s Chapel. 2nd LAR Bn. H&S Co. Unit 73505 Pierogie Baking: this Tuesday, April 8th, at 9am. Please come and FPO-AE 09509-3505 help. All are welcome. Thanks!!!
Dover Outreach will be held this Tuesday, April 8th at 10:30am at Helen McNally’s (in Harrington)
Services this week: Presanctified Liturgies on Wed. April 9th and Friday, April 11th at 6pm. Remember to fast in strict abstinence from your noon meal as preparation for Holy Communion. A potluck will follow the Friday Presanctified Liturgies throughout Lent. Please bring something Lenten (strict fast food) to share with others. We will enjoy hearing the life of a saint.
Canon of St. Andrew of Crete will be held this Thursday, April 10th at 6:30pm. It will be followed with the life story of St. Mary of Egypt, and holy confessions.
No Pysanky Egg Coloring class this Thursday.(Class again on April 17; but no class on Holy Thursday, April 24th)
Choir Practice for Holy Week and Pascha will be held this Saturday, April 12th, at 3pm.
Sign-up sheet for Easter Bread. Please place your order on the sign-up sheet if you wish to have Easter Bread for your Easter (Pascha) Basket. Project is sponsored by the Sisterhood. We need empty one-pound-sized coffee tins for the Easter Bread. Please donate your cans.
Building Program Update: Praise God! Our Exploratory Plan finally was approved! Now let us pray as we enter the next round in the County approval process. Hopefully, now things will speed up!
Good Samaritan collection today: This collection will be dedicated to Fr. Joseph Chupeck, who faced early retirement due to failing health issues. Fr. Joseph was the former pastor of St. Michael’s and played an integral part in the construction of this current church facility and the language conversion from Russian to English in the 1970’s. (IRS note: such “targeted gifts” do not qualify for church tax receipts.)
And the winner is...??? The Committee for St. Michael's Dinner Dance with Silent Auction on November 14, 2008, has selected the "theme" for the evening. The winning "theme" will be used on ALL Promotional and Print items for the event! The Winner will be announced today.
Coffee Hour—Visitors: We are so glad you came to fellowship with us. We hope you come back again. We ask our regular members to always be conscious of the hard work that the fellowship hour hosts and hostesses offer to us each Sunday as volunteers. They do a great job and deserve our thanks. We must try our best to show our appreciation by cleaning up after ourselves and our children before leaving. Reminder to the host/hostesses: please also remember to sweep the floor of the social hall after each coffee hour. We are the family of Christ. Let us take care of each other. Parish Ministries for the Month of April 2008: Date Fellowship Hour Service Duty Cleaning Greeters Library 04/06/08 Gundersen/Elia Morjana/Wales Baldytchev Morjana, Stoyanov Stoyanov 04/13/08 Kutch/Sulpizi/Tekie Harb/Elia Sulpizi/Kutch Sulpizi, Torvik 04/20/08 Kiflemariam Sulpizi/JF Riley Riley Chalfant, Peck Gundersen 04/27/08 PASCHA PASCHA SERVICE DUTY Carey/Poletaev PASCHA GREETERS Last 2 Sundays Collections: Gen. Fund $7,474.00, Children’s Offering $6.50, CAA $353, DA $74, Building Fund $1415, Memorial $70, Good Sam $425, Fr. Chupek collection $1,126, Candles $283.78, Prosphora/SAMP $15, Special Designated $764, Loose Cash $443, Coffee Hour $40.15 Phosphora Bakers for April – S. Skomorucha & K. Hojnicki