Bulletin October 18, 2015

Baked Goods: Our Bake Sale is a significant source of income. Besides our own kolácsi, the wide selection of your homemade baked goods is a draw to our Food Festival. In order to help with pricing, slicing, display, etc., we ask you to bring your baked goods as early as possible – either on Friday, November 6th or early on Saturday, November 7th. It also helps if you label the items you bake and/or list the prominent ingredients (e.g., nuts, peanut butter, etc.) and the approximate cost to make the items. Some of our patrons request sugar-free and gluten-free items – if you prepare any such items, please make note of that information.

Thank You!: Although we had a low turnout of workers on Friday and Saturday for Holupki making, the struggle and hard work paid off with a finished product of 900 holupki that we can be proud to serve to anyone. Thank you to everyone who transported, cooked, trimmed, scooped, rolled, mixed, sauced, baked, transported again, iced, wrapped, transported, washed, cleaned, carried, stacked, … a complex process indeed! Thank you to everyone who donated money and ingredients and to those who helped to gather, purchase, and transport all the elements that need to be brought together to complete the process.

Slavic Food Festival and Bake Sale:

  • Haluški/ Cabbage Preparation: Our final food prep project is haluški and cabbage. This year we will divide that task into a two-day process:
    • Tuesday, November 3rd, beginning at 9:00 am we will cut the cabbage and onions.
    • Wednesday, November 4th (9:00 am) we will cook the cabbage and prepare the haluški (dumplings), mix them and, finally, cool and refrigerate the finished product.
  • Flyers: Food Festival Flyers can be found in the Social Hall and in the Church. Please take the Flyers and distribute them among friends and neighbors and post them on your local community bulletin board, supermarkets, etc.
  • Raffle Tickets are available for each parish household and may be picked up in the Social Hall today. The cost of the tickets is $1 each with 6 for $5. Each envelope contains 24 tickets – for a total cost of $20.

Donations: Most, if not all of our paper products and supplies have been purchased by this time. We will need another 100 lbs. of cabbage for the haluški and 50 lbs. of onions (for haluški, sauerkraut, and pirohi) plus a few ‘odds and ends.’ In terms of donations we could always use cash for these purchases as well as last minute items such as Sweet ‘N Low, creamers, condiments, salt and pepper, etc. Finally, donations of soft drinks would be a real help: Coke, Diet Coke, 7-Up, Pepsi, – any of the major soft drinks in regular and diet/sugar free forms. Check the local stores for specials.

Food for the Needy: Please keep in mind that food collections are not limited to the holiday seasons. Donations of non-perishable food items are needed year round to assist those in need.

Diocesan Stewardship Appeal: The 2015 Diocesan Stewardship Appeal is now underway. Information for the appeal has been mailed directly from the Chancery Office. The annual appeal supports our diocesan programs and ministries. It also offers valuable subsidies to the medical and insurance programs for our parishes. Our goal remains the same as last year. If we achieve that goal – or exceed it as we did last year – our parish will receive a 40% rebate of those funds for use in our own church. Nearly one half of what we collect stays in our parish.

Let Us Remember in Prayer all those who are in some special need of God’s loving kindness and mercy at this time. Let us remember particularly the “Prayer Requests ” of all who have asked for the prayerful support of our Parish Family in their special intentions.

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