Another Great Result

THANK YOU TO Costas Costi and his brother Spiros for holding the Sponsored Lunch at the Lilac Restaurant on Sunday 24th January 2016.

We raised the Grand Sum of £408 from the lunch, raffle and Donations.

The money from this event and from the Tea Party held at the Arundel Hotel on Sunday 17th January goes towards the cost of the Roof Works which have now been completed.
THANK YOU Loukia (Brighton) for the delicious Greek Cakes, and Thank you to all who donated raffle prizes and for all who joined us on both events to make them so successful.
Anyone else wanting to sponsor an event is welcome to let us know.

The Ongoing works listed below are going ahead.

  1. Repair of two flat roofs £1,370 work complete
  2. Plastering of Ceiling by door and side wall, patching ceiling above stairs to gallery and filling in cracks and holes left by microphones on both windows £250 by Ray Bridger
  3. Guttering outside priest’s room and to the side of side door awaiting estimate
  4. Ramps to toilet and rear door with handle bars and raising front door mat and side door mat and supplying and fitting disabled bar for toilet awaiting estimate
  5. Decorating and flooring toilets
  6. Fitting of 3 lights in church, fix existing sensor light and add three further Sensor lights
  7. Pay contribution for prayer bench Bible holder (Psalterion) for materials as George very kindly did the work for free
  8. Repairing floor boards around church which are rotting and unsafe and repairs to door frames
  9. Applying damp proof paint to wall at front of church near the upper gallery and also rear wall of school
  10. Having existing microphone fitted to school
  11. If Sensible Solutions do not fix exterior wall of priest room and kitchen then we will have to repair wall and redecorate priest back room
  12. Render exterior walls were necessary supply scaffolding and fix guttering which is hanging from roof

Sonia Scoufarides

Donations and Raffle

THANK YOU ALL WHO SUPPORTED HELPED OR ATTENDED THE TEA PARTY AT THE ARUNDEL HOTEL CARLISE ROAD EASTBOURNE ON SUNDAY 17TH JANUARY 2015

THANK YOU GEORGE AND LENYA AND THE MAPOURAS FAMILY FOR LETTING US USE THEIR HOTEL

ALL THE DELICIOUS SANDWICHES SNACKS CAKES AND DESERTS WERE PREPARED AND DONATED BY

EASTBOURNE AND BRIGHTON COMMUNITY MEMBERS

THANK YOU ALSO FOR THE RAFFLE PRIZES AND FOR JOINING US

TOTAL RAISED £376 FROM THOSE ATTENDING, DONATIONS AND RAFFLE

WITH MORE DONATIONS HOPEFULLY COMING IN

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY FUND RAISING IDEAS OR YOU CAN HOLD AN EVENT

Following Events/Suggestions

1. Sunday 24th January 1.30pm at The Lilac~ Roast Lunch to be held by Costas Costi Cost £5 per person. Please confirm to Costas direct on 07460548618 or committee to reserve places

2. Sponsored Diary for 2017 (suggested by Maria Vounatsou (Mamouchas)) to be sponsored by local members of the Community paying for Adverts. Details will follow

FUNDS NEEDED FOR URGENT REPAIRS TO THE CHURCH INCLUDING

1) Repair of two flat roofs £1,370 work complete.

2) Plastering of Ceiling by door and side wall, patching ceiling above stairs to gallery and filling in cracks and holes left by microphones on both windows £250 by Ray Bridger

3) Guttering outside priests room and to the side of side door awaiting estimate

4) Ramps to toilet and rear door with handle bars and raising front door mat and side door mat and supplying and fitting disabled bar for toilet awaiting estimate

5) Decorating and flooring toilets

6) Fitting of 3 lights in church, fix existing sensor light and add three further Sensor lights

7) Pay contribution for prayer bench Bible holder (Psalterion) for materials as George very kindly did the work for free.

8) Repairing floor boards around church which are rotting and unsafe and repairs to door frames.

9) Applying damp proof paint to wall at front of church near the upper gallery and also rear wall of school

10) Having existing microphone fitted to school

11) If Sensible Solutions do not fix exterior wall of priest room and kitchen then we will have to repair wall and redecorate priest back room.

12) Render exterior walls were necessary supply scaffolding and fix guttering which is hanging from roof

Saint Anthony the Great – North London

We have received the following invitation from Saint Anthony the Great in North London.

Please email Paraschos Anastassiades at PAnastassiades@orthodox-islington.org.uk for further information.

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Dear Parishioners,

Happy New Year!

You are invited to the festal celebrations of St Anthony the Great.

This year is specially significant for us, as it is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of our Community (1966), and we hope it will mark not only a celebration of the past, but also our firm hope and resolution to move forward and make progress as the only Orthodox Church in the borough of Islington.

We also kindly ask if you can help us here at St Anthony’s by forwarding the attached Invitation to SAINT ANTHONY THE GREAT to our younger generation and also any non speaking Greek Orthodox faithful, for them we have Sat 16TH Jan morning dedicated services all in English  and a complimentary light lunch please refer to attached programme.

On behalf of the clergy all the members of the Community we wish you a very happy Christmas and a New Year of progress in proclaiming the Good News of the ‘God Who Is With Us’.

Kind Regards,

Paraschos Anastassiades

Please email Paraschos Anastassiades at PAnastassiades@orthodox-islington.org.uk for further information.

The Invitation to SAINT ANTHONY THE GREAT can be found here here