Harvest Festival – will be held on next Sunday, August 25th. Please bring all your harvest and plus enjoy all different kinds of authentic food. There will be 5 different booths and make sure you visit all the booths. Everyone is encouraged to come and support the MMVS.
2024 Graduates – All graduates are requested to provide your names, institution and degree attained, to the secretary at your earliest. It includes High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, Post- graduate programs.
MMVS Annual Conference – will take place at HTRC from June 13-15, 2024. All MMVS members are requested to participate. Please see the flyer below for more details.
Summer Summit 2024 – will take place at HTRC from June 27th-29th. This camp is for all college aged and post-graduates. Please see details below on how to register.
St. Johns Orthodox Church Musical Concert – St. John’s Orthodox Church, Bellerose is also conducting a Musical Concert to mark the 10th anniversary of the inception of their church on May 26th at Queensborough Community College. This is a fund raising event for (Education Aid charity) in India and for the future of their parish. Your prayers and presence is requested.
St. Andrews Conference – St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church will be hosting a Life After Loss conference on Saturday, June 15th at the Seminary of Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York. This conference is designed to help faithful navigate grief over the death of a loved one/parent, anticipatory grief, and how to talk to children about death. Interested individuals can register here: Additional information can be found in the flyer below.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feast of Annunciation to St. Mary – March 25th Saturday, Holy Qurbana at 8am.
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.
2023 Sunday School Education Day – please click the image below for photos from Education Day!
2023 Sunday School Education Day
MMVS Annual Retreat – please see details of the MMVS Annual retreat below.
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 15that 8am. All are requested to make arrangements to attend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
