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Weekly Announcements – 09/24/2023

  1. Parish Family Night – Our Parish family night will be held on Sunday, October 8th. It will be held at the Cotillion Restaurant from 4:00pm- 8:30pm. Please sign up as soon as possible. $50 per head. Children 5 to 10 years of age are half price and below 5 years free. Registration will be done online and the link is found in the St Thomas parish Family ‘whatsapp’ group. Everyone please register at the earliest. Hope to see everyone there.
  2. Community Service – The Mcvey food pantry is accepting donations of staple food and household items. Please consider donating to help out the local East meadow and Levittown community. There will be a donation box set up in the parish hall.
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Weekly Announcements – 08/27/2023

  1. MMVS of BQLI – will have a half day retreat from 9 AM to 12 PM on September 2nd at St. Gregorios Orthodox Church, Elmont. The speaker will be Fr. Jerry Varghese and the theme for the retreat will be  Nicene Creed.
  2. Parish Family Night – Please sign up once the form is published. $50 per head. Children 5 to 10 years of age half price and under 5 years free.
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MMVS Sunday School

Weekly Announcements – 03/19/2023

  1. Feast of Annunciation to St. Mary – March 25th Saturday, Holy Qurbana at 8am.
  2. Holy Week Donation – All members are kindly requested to make a donation of $100 for Holy Week. Please give your donation to the Treasurer as soon as possible.
  3. 2023 Sunday School Education Day – please click the image below for photos from Education Day!
2023 Sunday School Education Day
  1. MMVS Annual Retreat – please see details of the MMVS Annual retreat below.
2023 MMVS Annual Retreat
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Weekly Announcements – 08/07/2022

  1. The Feast of the Dormition of St. Mary There will be Holy Qurbana for the Feast of the Dormition of St. Mary on Monday, August 15th at 8am.  All are requested to make arrangements to attend. 
  2. General Body Meeting We will have our half yearly General Body meeting Sunday, August 14th, after Holy Qurbana.  Members are kindly requested to attend this meeting.
  3. Parish Picnic – Reminder, this year’s picnic will be held on Saturday, August 20th at Belmont State Park.  The rain date will be Saturday, August 27th.  All members are encouraged to participate on this day of fellowship. 
  4. Sunday School Library – Reminder that the Sunday School library with Orthodox themed books will be open all summer and set up on the Parish Hall stage. Parents please encourage the kids to include these books in their summer reading.  For more information, please contact Rebu Thomas or Tigi Abraham.
  5. MMVS Donation & Visit to Long Island Cares
Donation & Visit to Long Island Cares
MMVS Donation
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Weekly Announcements – 05/23/2021

  1. MGOCSM Meeting There will be a youth meeting held Sunday, May 30th at 4:30pm.  All youth members are kindly requested to attend.  Please refer to GroupMe for the Zoom link.
  2. MMVS Food Drive – Reminder that the MMVS of this parish, along with the BQLI area, will be collecting canned goods and dried food to help those who are in need due to the pandemic.  For those who wish to donate, there will be a box located in the lobby until Sunday, May 30th.
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Weekly Announcements – 05/16/2021

  1. Feast of Pentecost will be celebrated Sunday, May 23rd.  Lilio prayer will begin at 7am and morning prayer at 7:30am.  H.G. Zachariah Nickolovas will be conducting Holy Qurbana at the parish for his annual visit.  The form to sign up for Sunday’s service was sent out as a link via text message on Monday. 
  2. Monthly Prayer Meeting – This month’s online prayer meeting will be held Sunday, May 23rd at 4:30PM for the entire parish via Zoom.  The link will be texted out later this week.
  3. MGOCSM Meeting There will be a youth meeting Sunday, May 30th at 4:30pm.  All youth members are kindly requested to attend.  Please refer to GroupMe for the Zoom link.
  4. MMVS Food Drive – Reminder that the MMVS of this parish, along with the BQLI area, will be collecting canned goods and dried food to help those who are in need due to the pandemic.  For those who wish to donate, there will be a box located in the lobby until May 30th.
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Weekly Announcements – 10/13/2019

  1. MMVS Annual Conference- Special thanks to all the volunteers, both men and women, who helped yesterday with the MMVS Conference.  Without your help it would not have been a success.
  2. Breaking the Silence– The MGOCSM, MMVS and GROW ministries of the Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area present Breaking the Silence, a mental health awareness workshop addressing stress and anxiety. It will be held Saturday, October 19th from 9 am to 3 pm at St. Gregorios Elmont church. Registration is $10 and can be completed online. Kindly refer to the church website for the flyer with more information. 
  3. MGOCSM Meeting– There will be a youth meeting next Sunday 4 pm at the residence of Mr. & Mrs. KS Georgekutty. All youth members are requested to attend. 
  4. General Body Meeting – as announced earlier there will be a General Body meeting held next Sunday, Oct. 20th, after Holy Qurbana.  We will be holding elections for year 2020 at this meeting.
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WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS – 9/8/2019

  1. Baby Boy – Mr. & Mrs. Joseph & Premna John were blessed with a baby boy, Lucas Joseph, this week. Please keep the baby and the family in your prayers.
  2. Passing of Mr. Varghese Pothachen – the father-in-law of Mr. Cheriyan Abraham and father of Mrs. Susan Cheriyan passed earlier this week.  Please keep the bereaving family in your prayers.
  3. Sunday School – First day of Sunday School classes will begin next Sunday, September 15th. Please have all children attend to receive their materials for the upcoming School year. Please keep the Sunday School ministry in your prayers.
2019 Car Wash and Bazaar!
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MMVS Sports Sunday School

Weekly Announcements – 06/09/2019

  1. St. Stephens Raffle – all members who participated in the raffle from St. Stephens Orthodox Church are kindly requested to give the contributions to our Treasurer.
  2. MMVS Diabetics Education Seminar – the MMVS is conducting an informational seminar on diabetics education on June 15th @ 4pm at the church.  They will be going over the basics of the disease and how to manage it.
  3. MMVS Raffle Drive – MMVS is conducting a raffle to help with their charity activities.  Please support them and in this effort.
  4. Sunday School Assigned Competition – the church level assigned competition will be held on on June 23rd. All Sunday school students are encouraged to participate, all topics are posted downstairs. Please see Principal or Asst. Principal for more details.
  5. End of Sunday School Year – Final Exams will be held on June 16th.
  6. AGNI Middle School Camp –  Northeast American Diocese will host “AGNI: Ablaze for the Lord” camp for Middle School students from August 8-10, 2019 at Holy Transfiguration Retreat Center. The main speakers are Rev. Fr. Shawn Thomas and Mrs. Lijin Thomas. Eligible participants are children ages 10-14. For more information please contact Fr. Sujit Thomas, Diocesan Secretary. Please use the following link to register: https://forms.gle/V2gwWQCgBxTcLkzH7
  7. Parish Picnic – will be held on July 20th, 2019. All members are kindly requested to make arrangements to attend.
MMVS Diabetes Education Seminar
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Weekly Announcements – 05/19/2019

  1. MGOCSM Charity Event – On Sunday May 26th, Memorial Day weekend, the youth will be preparing dinner for the families at the Ronald McDonald house of Long Island. If you are available to help out that day between 3 and 6 pm please sign up at your earliest using the link on GroupMe or the church website: tinyurl.com/RMD-STLI.
  2. MMVS Announcements
    • MMVS Annual Conf –  will be held on Oct. 12th, 2019 in Philadelphia.  All who are interested are requested to reach out to the MMVS members to register for the conference.  The cost of transport to the conference will be subsidized this year, for more details please reach out to MMVS members.
    • Diabetics Education Seminar – the MMVS is conducting an informational seminar on diabetics education on June 15th @ 4pm at the church.  They will be going over the basics of the disease and how to manage it.
  3. Monthly Prayer Meeting – the monthly prayer meeting will take place next Sunday, May 26th @ 6PM at the residence of Mr. Sunny P. Chacko.
  4. Monthly Committee Meeting – there will be a monthly scheduled Committee Meeting next Sunday, May 26th after Holy Qurbana. All committee members are kindly requested to attend.