These items are meant to be relevant for regularly attending parishioners at Holy Ascension.
Announcements Email list
You can signup for church announcement emails here.
Choir
If you are already singing in the choir, you should be on Marie’s email list for choir updates. Contact her if you are not getting those emails. If you are not in the choir but would like to be, please talk to Marie. Here is her choir resources folder.
Directory
We have a private directory, but it requires a password. The password is the thing that Paul used to check all the time, ask someone for it if you don’t know. :-). Ask Loretta if any changes need to be made.
Coffee Hour Schedule
Here is the online coffee hour schedule.. See Marissa for changes.
Birthdays, Anniversaries, etc.
Besides the main calendar for services (on the home page), we also have a
Birthday/Anniversary/NamesDay calendar on Google.
On this calendar, B = Birthdays, A= Anniversary, N= Names Days. You can subscribe to this calendar, see the schedule page for more info. See Loretta for corrections or additions.
Cleaning:
Families rotate by month for church cleaning. Contact Mary Heyman with questions or to get on the rotation.
Family Camp:
Here is the family camp information page.
Forms/Documents:
Funeral rights: In Michigan you can specifically designate someone (or a church) to have legal control of your body and funeral arrangements after death. Some of us with non-Orthodox immediate family might find this particularly important. You can fill it out and have it notarized (we have a couple of Notary Publics in the parish) and leave a copy with the priest or parish secretary for the church’s files. You should also have one together with your will and other such documents so that there is no dispute should a death suddenly happen. Here is the blank form directly from the state of Michigan. To make it easier, we also made a version of it that’s partially filled out to include that your local Orthodox Church that you attend be given this authority, that version is here.
Member Stewardship – Planned sacrificial Giving:
Holy Ascension parishioners consider sacrificial giving to be an integral part of their spiritual growth. Learn more here.
Online giving can be setup on the DONATE page.