Message Board

See attached letter from the director of the St. Nicholas Africa Fund.

Your help is needed. Please make a donation to the St. Nicholas Retirement Housing Pledge Drive. Please read about this unique opportunity for St. Nicholas Church.

Annual Parish Picnic, Sunday, June 7th, following Divine Liturgy, at Robson-Harrington Park. For general inquiries and to bring a dish to the potluck, please see Genevieve.

Urgent Request for volunteers for Candlemaking Day — Monday, April 27, 10am – 2pm. All help will be greatly appreciated.

Our catechism class at St Nicholas will begin on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 by zoom with an orientation class. The book for the class is “The Orthodox Way” by Met. Kallistos Ware. Please read more on this link to signup for the class.

Pledge Forms were distributed some time ago. If you haven’t filled yours out yet, please do so as soon as possible.

There is no more profitable practice as a companion to holy and spiritual fasting than that of almsgiving. View our schedule for almsgiving collections during Great Lent.

We will be restarting our bi-weekly meetings for Bible study on Sunday May 11th after Pascha. It’s a great opportunity to renew all aspects of our spiritual life, including reading and pondering the Book of Life, if you feel inspired to do so.

John Fox is taking collections of gently-used clothing… warm jackets and coats, sweatshirts, sweaters, etc.

Bishop Vasily visited St. Nicholas on The Nativity of The Theotokos feast day. See the photos and videos of the event.

On Lazarus Saturday (April 4), we enter into the special and sacred time of Holy Week and Pascha. Each and every one of us is called to truly “lay aside all earthly cares,” i.e., all activities and concerns that distract from the great mystery which is happening for us and to us.