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Time to hit the road! 🚗 Six of our youth will be attending St. Stephens Summer camp this week! We wish them a safe journey and a fun time filled with memories, bonding, and above all, a closeness with Christ! 🙏🏻 St. Stephen's Summer Camp has a rich tradition, dating back to the 1980's, and is grounded on the principals of living a true Orthodox lifestyle with twice daily liturgical services, opportunities for reflection, community living and meals, athletics, arts & crafts, and nightly social activities. Recognized as the highlight of the summer, St Stephen's Summer Camp offers teens an opportunity to spend a week at our Metropolis Diakonia Retreat Center in South Carolina.

Keeping our youth safe is a TOP priority at St. George. Further information and training is forthcoming. The new policies are an update to current policies to ensure best practices and the safety of our youth.

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We had a great time together assembling health and school kits for the @IOCC this weekend! We were able to surpass our goal of 500 total kits! Thank you to our Philoptochos for organizing and hosting and to those who came to support the initiative for this great charity! We also are thankful to our brothers and sisters from @Christ the Savior Orthodox Cathedral who drove from Miami Lakes to lend a helping hand! The Philoptochos is now starting to collect plastic grocery store bags for the next project. These bags will be woven into sleeping mats for the homeless. Please start collecting your bags to bring to the church to support this next initiative. Together we can make a big impact!

We are watching the Enthronement service here at St. George as we also prepare school and health kits for the IOCC charity. Join us live now in the church hall! Can’t make it to the enthronement? No problem! Watch it live at home with family and friends! Either way, join us in prayer. https://www.goarch.org/enthronement

When Archbishop Elpidophoros comes to America, the first thing that’s going to happen is his enthronement on June 22. Yet that word, “enthronement,” can be confusing. After all, a bishop isn’t a king. Why does he need to be enthroned? The Church is a body. And just like different organs perform different functions in the body, the Church is made up of people with different talents and responsibilities. https://www.goarch.org/-/why-do-bishops-get-enthroned-be-the-bee

Read Archbishop Elpidophoros' Archpastoral Message and Enthronement Announcement here: http://onlinechapel.goarch.org/bulletin-inserts/archbishop/19-05-2019-bulletin-archbishop-elpidophoros-welcome-english-color.pdf

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros will be Enthroned as the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 11 am ET. The Enthronement service will be broadcast live at the following locations: * Website: https://www.goarch.org/enthronement * Facebook: https://www.goarch.org/enthronement * YouTube: https://www.goarch.org/enthronement

May her memory be eternal!

If you missed out on tonight’s Dinner and a Movie, be sure to catch the next one!

TBT! Our Religious Education end of year graduation ceremony! So proud of all our youth and Congrats to our HS graduates! Thank you to our teachers!

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Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! Today we were blessed to celebrate the feast day of St. George, the Great Martyr and Triumphant. He sowed with tears but reaped with gladness and in contest he competed with his blood and came away with Christ! How fortunate we are to have him as the Patron Saint of our Parish and our Protector! Thank you to all our sister parishes who joined us for Liturgy today and veneration of the Relics and all our volunteers who helped with our luncheon! Happy Name-day to the many who are celebrating! Join us May 4th as we continue the celebration at our St. George Dinner Dance from 7-11:30pm at St. George. There will be food, music and dancing! Proceeds benefit our parish ministries. See our facebook event page for more info!

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! How thankful and blessed we all are to enjoy the radiant triumphal feast of the Resurrection! Today we rejoice and enter into the joy of the Lord! We no longer fear death, for the Savior’s death has set us free! Today we receive the riches of His loving-kindness! We started with a beautiful Resurrection Service last night, followed by Liturgy and delicious Avgolemeno soup! Today we gathered for Agape Vespers and heard the Gospel reading in Greek, English, French, Turkish and Vhlaxika. We finished the day celebrating with around a hundred faithful plus children, a TON of food, two roasted lambs, bounce house, egg hunt, potato sack races, dessert, beer and liquor, cotton candy, music, a visit from our local fire department and Firefighters, dancing and of course the best part, shouting Christ is Risen! Thank you to everyone for your role in making today a wonderful success filled with rejoicing! Join us tomorrow in celebration of the Feast Day of St. George at 9am (Matins) and 10 am (Liturgy) followed by a simple meal and dessert in our Church hall. Christ is Risen!

Thank you to our sister parish, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of North Miami for the invitation to pray and worship together this past Sunday evening at the Vespers service for the Feast of the Annunciation. Everyone also enjoyed the meal and fellowship afterwards in the hall! 🙏🏻

🇬🇷 This past Sunday we had a great celebration of Hellenism at St. George! 🇬🇷 The two biggest national holidays in Greece are March 25th and October 28th. In both cases, we celebrate the liberation of Greece. On March 25, we celebrate the 1821 Revolution against the Ottomans after 400 years of slavery. We often call this day the ‘The Independence of Greece’, though truly we are celebrating the beginning and not the end of the revolution. The Greek National Anthem celebrates the freedom of life, even if for one hour, over years of slavery. It tells the story of the struggle of the liberation. How honored we are to have our Greek School Youth share with us each year the significance of this event and perform plays and songs that speak to the great history of Greece! We are so very proud of all our youth! Thank you to our teachers, parents, attendee’s and all the volunteers and donors who once again made this event a success! 🇬🇷 Ζητω η 25η Μαρτιου! 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 Ζητω η Ελλας! 🇬🇷

💃 Σπαστά όλα, πληρωμένα είναι! 😍

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Our youth spoke at the parish assembly on how much they love St. Stephen’s camp! We are so very proud of them!

🗣🎶St. George has the best Cantors! 🙏🏻 K. George Zavalis, K. Despoina Hatziyanakis and K. Manolis Palaios are a choir of angels! If you missed hearing them at church today, don’t despair- join is next Sunday, 8:30am Orthros, ~9:30am Divine Liturgy. See you then!