Glory to Thee O God, Glory to Thee!
2008 Russian Festival – Thank-you
We sincerely offer thanks unto God for His great mercy and bountiful blessings, which He has granted unto us during the 2008 Russian Festival. Through His abundant mercy and by the prayerful intercessions of the Holy Hieromartyr John (Kochurov)our parish conducted a very successful festival. Glory to God for all things!
Dear brothers and sisters, we offer our thanks to all of you who attended this year’s festival. It was truly heart-warming to see so many of our friends, neighbors and visitors come again to our annual festival. Thousands of guests reverently toured our church, learned about Orthodoxy, partook of some tasty ethnic food, purchased many unique and beautiful souvenirs and enjoyed great cultural music and dance rarely found in today’s hectic world. It was indeed our pleasure to welcome all of you to our 35rd Annual Russian Festival and we hope to see you again real soon.
Also, it was truly inspiring to witness such wonderful cooperation, commitment and patience exhibited by everyone who volunteered during the weeks and months leading up to the Festival and during the Festival weekend. So many people offered countless hours and days (even taking vacation time from their jobs) for the sake of the festival, for the spreading of the faith and to the glory of God.
We also extend our most sincere and love-filled thanks to the Chairman, David Eichelberger and the Co-Chairpersons of the festival: Albert Blaszak; Selina Eichelberger; Art Lisowsky; Michael Mickel; Kay & Jack Plaskowitz. And we offer our heart-felt gratitude to everyone (the list of names is truly quite long) who helped prepare the breads, make the kolbasa, vareniki, golubsty and many, many delicious sweets and other baked goods; and thanks to all those who worked on the ad book, sold raffle tickets, worked in the booths, hall, kitchen or in the church and thanks to everyone who helped set up the hall, the street and then helped to clean up at the conclusion of the festival. May God bless each and everyone of you with peace, health, love, prosperity and many, many years !