Annual Parish Meeting
Annual Parish Meeting 2024
One of the important “human” moments each year in the life of St. Athanasius is our Annual Parish Meeting (APM,) held every September. This meeting usually lasts about an hour and is mandated by the Orthodox Church in America. Why? This meeting focuses vital attention on the …
Annual Parish Meeting 2022 [Updated!]
On Sunday, September 11, our parish community held its 21st Annual Parish Meeting. You can watch the video of our proceedings here. Among the statutory tasks that were undertaken at this 46–minute meeting were: the report of our parish warden Zoe Kaylor (in APM packet below) the priest’s …
Parish Life in September
In our parish, it feels that by September, church life returns to “school year” normal. Sunday School resumes (in our parish on Sept. 18) and programming of various sorts picks back up along with the Great Feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin (Sept. 8) and the Exaltation of the Cross …
Annual Parish Meeting 2021
It is the statutory tradition of the Orthodox Church in America that every parish community hold an Annual Parish Meeting. According to the Statute of the OCA, Article XII, Section 7, The Parish Assembly, sometimes known as the Parish Meeting, meets annually to consider matters pertaining to the …
Annual Parish Meeting 2020
What? Annual Parish Meeting 2020 When? Sun., Sept. 27, 2020 (1145am-12pm) Where? At Church In-Person & Via YouTubeLive Traditionally, our Annual Parish Meeting (required by the by-laws of our Diocese and the Statute of the Orthodox Church in America,) is held in-person. In our community, the …