With the excitement for online ordering of Philoptochos Bake Sales underway, our orders are coming in strong. Our first battalion of co-workers just prepared the special spinach and cheese mixture for the rolling of spanakopites this Saturday. With a goal of 250 dozen in anticipated sales, our prep team realized rolling will be a two-day task! To accommodate this demand, we just scheduled a full second day of rolling tomorrow, Friday, October 11th, eginning at 9:00 a.m.

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Join us this Saturday to roll Spanakopites for GREEKFEST. We will begin at 10:30 a.m., following church services commemorating the Prophet Elijah (Elias).

We hope you and your family will join us!

Download Schedule for this year's baking dates.

Fr. George is pleased to announce that His Grace Bishop Sevastianos of Zelon will visit our parish for the first time on Sunday, August 4th. What a glorious Sunday it will be, as His Grace presides at the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. Afterwards, Fr. George will assist His Grace to celebrate the Blessing of the Five Loaves and bless those celebrating August birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and Name Days. Bishop Sevastianos will offer the Agiasmos (Blessing of Water) for the new academic year of religious education and public and private studies of our parish youth and youth adults. All students as well as our youth and young adult ministry chairs and religious educators will receive His blessing, along with our faithful. Our parish will host a special luncheon in Bishop Sevastianos' honor. Our luncheon chair, Faye Georgeo, will be working with our Parish Council and Philoptochos Society to offer a delicious lenten meal (August Fast) and fellowship. We hope you will respond to her efforts to include your helping hands. As we anticipate His Grace's visit, let us prepare ourselves with prayers and mutual encouragement for the many opportunities we have to prepare to welcome His Grace and one another on this joyous day. As we anticipate the month of August and the Bishop's visit, a time when we are preparing to celebrate the Transfiguration of our Lord and the Dormition of the Theotokos, let us remember that both His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios and His Grace Bishop Sevastianos love and support us. May we pray that God grant both of them "many more years" of good health, joy, and Spirit-filled life. I thank you in advance for your prayer and assistance, and look forward to Sunday, August 4th - please save the date!

In spite of terrible rain on Saturday, June 7th, all 20 of our volunteers showed up to sort various food types to be distributed to community food shelters. We had a ball!

Join us as Faye Georgeo offers us a wonderful spaghetti lunch for parishioners to enjoy and share fellowship this Sunday after church services.

Join Fr. George and Presbytera Marinda for our annual Memorial Day Observance and Trisagion Service at the National Cemetery in Canton, GA on Monday, May 27th. We will depart from the Visitors Center promptly at 10:30 a.m. and visit the graves as in previous years. Afterwards, we will share lunch fellowship at the Marietta Fish Market (Dutch treat). Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring people who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Christ is risen! Through God’s grace, St. Christopher parishioners experienced a spiritually uplifting Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha. We are deeply grateful for your countless gifts of time, talents, and contributions during this time and throughout the year. Let us pray that we continue to grow even stronger in our journey to our Risen Lord. During this Bight Week and beyond, Fr. George encourages us to continue to seek daily strength and sustenance from Him through personal prayer, reading Holy Scripture, serving others, and communing with His Holy Body. Let us join together and continue to pray for peace and healing for all those who are sick and in need and let us offer ourselves as God’s co-workers as opportunities arise. Thank you for your support and encouragement. Our Risen Lord “thirsts” for us to stop and take in His “water of eternal life” each day. What great mercy our Savior Jesus Christ has been offering us during Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha. Please do not let it end! Amen!

Saturday, April 13th was a blessed day. Philoptochos sisters had a wonderful time visiting Southland Nursing & Rehab Center.

Fr. George & St. Christopher parishioners worshiped at Annunciation Cathedral on Sunday, March 31, 2019. They joined Metropolitan Alexios, Bishop Sevastianos, Cathedral Clergy, and laity on the third Sunday of Great Lent.

Every week, Fr. George will offer a brief overview of assigned readings, answer questions, and then engage in dialogue aimed at applying our book’s teachings to our prayer life. Please join us as you are able.

Please join us for the 1st Annual St. Christopher Golf Classic benefiting Saint Christopher Outreach Ministry, The Bedford School and The Joseph Sams School. Funds raised are provided to the schools in the form of a scholarship. Interested in applying?

Fr. George & Katie Wilson, assisted by Johnny Ellinas and Kirk Panayis engage parishioners with Praxis Magazine's "Women in the Church" Series.

Congratulations to Faye Georgeo and Dedee Panayis, our 2019 honorees.

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America affirms the sanctity of life based on the firm conviction that life begins at the moment of conception. The Assembly remains steadfast in its conviction that any interference in the development of life is a serious issue, and therefore it regularly participates in a variety of relevant events and also releases pertinent statements on the topic. Read Entire Statement

Stewardship – Giving Time, Talent and Treasure As a member of St. Christopher’s, all of us are stewards, and we accept responsibility for protecting, managing, and caring for our parish. We hold it in trust for those of blessed memory who helped to create it and we nurture it for future generations who will inherit it. Stewardship becomes actionable through our Time, Talent, and Treasure, contributions we each make to ensure that we can achieve our vision. Gifts of Treasure are the financial commitments we make through our pledges to the Annual Stewardship Campaign to support our staff, our operations, the religious education of our children and adults and all of our ministries. We encourage pledging because making and keeping promises is an important spiritual discipline that creates faithfulness and mutual responsibility. Pledges also help our parish to plan wisely. We thank those who have already completed their 2019 Stewardship Pledge! If you have not had the opportunity to complete your 2019 please click on this link https://goo.gl/forms/Z5uQJSgvzoo1xC7E2 to complete your pledge online. In order to approve our 2019 budget at this Sunday's General Assembly we need to know what our pledges are. Please do not hesitate to contact me at gsjs401mg@gmail.com with any questions. We are deeply grateful for the loving generosity that you and your family provide and we thank you for your offerings of Time, Talents and Treasurers. Faithfully, Julie Skouteris

"Go Red" for Women is the American Heart Association’s national call to increase awareness and help prevent heart disease, the number one killer of American women. This is a call for women, to take charge of their well-being and live stronger, healthier lives. The statistics make it clear that awareness is important. Ninety percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease. Only one in five women believes that heart disease is her greatest health risk. Eighty percent of cardiac events in women could be prevented if women made the right choices for their hearts. Join in the mission to increase awareness and help prevent heart disease in women today! The National Philoptochos Society promotes the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign. Improve awareness by sharing information with your Philoptochos sisters, your parish community and all the women you know and love. The American Heart Association has designated Friday, February 1, 2019 as National Wear Red Day. In support of this program, The National Philoptochos Society is designating Sunday, February 3, 2019 as Go Red Sunday and are asking Philoptochos sisters across the country to join the movement and wear red, when attending Church services.