These items are meant to be relevant for regularly attending parishioners at Holy Ascension.
Service Opportunities:
Would you like to help? We always need participants with our coffee hour meal cooking – here’s the the schedule! Or church cleaning? Or can you help in other ways? See our list of Service Opportunities!
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 (see directory) if you are not getting those emails. If you are not in the choir but would like to be, start here for instructions. If you are looking for some of our sheet music or audio, contact Marie for access to the Choir Resources Share.
Did you miss our Service Opportunities link above?!?!?!?. Here you go: Service Opportunities!
Directory
We have an online parish directory, but it requires a password. You can find it in the weekly email newsletter. Or ask someone for it if you don’t know.
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.
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 (see directory) for corrections or additions.
Clothing Closet:
Brooke Austin (see directory) manages a “clothing closet” for the parish. What is it? “A self-serve clothing lending library where you can borrow what you need and return it when your family is done with it. Is it only clothing? No! For infants there are hats, swaddles (occasionally), blankets, bibs, and cloth diapers. For toddlers there are shoes, boots, sandals, hats, snow pants, and coats/jackets. Read all about it here.
Family Camp:
Here is the family camp information page.
Forms/Documents for parishioners:
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.