St. John Armenian Church

of Greater Detroit

Very Rev. Fr. Aren Jebejian, pastor

Weekly e-Bulletin

Sunday, May 25, 2025

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Parish Calendar

Click on the Sunday print bulletin or see the separate listings below for more information on these parish events:

May 23-25 - Memorial Day Weekend

ACYOA General Assembly and Sports Weekend

See flyers below for event details

May 26 - Memorial Day Grave Blessings

12:00 pm - General Requiem - Woodlawn Cemetery

See schedule below for Fr. Aren's cemetery availability

Thursday, May 29 - Book Presentation

David Karamian, Armenia: The Lone Stone

Co-Sponsored with the Edward and Helen Mardigian Library

7:00 pm - St. Vartan Room

June 13 - Hye Doon

Bonfire and Boukies - 7:00 pm - Church lawn

Thursday, June 5 - Book Presentation

Hachig Kazarian, Western Armenian Music

7:00 pm - St. Vartan Room

July 7-11 - Arts of Armenia

See flyer below for program and registration information

July 26-August 2 - Hye Camp

Ingleside, IL - See flyer below for program and registration information

Save the date!

Sunday, August 17 - Annual Church Picnic

Sunday, September 7 - Church School Opening Day Khunjhook

October 3-4 - Annual Bazaar

Next Week's Scripture Readings

Monday - Acts 21:1-14; 1 John 3:7-10; John 10:11-21

Tuesday - Acts 21:15-26; 1 John 3:10-20; John 10:22-42

Wednesday - Acts 21:27-36; 1 John 3:21-4:6; John 11:1-46

Thursday - Feast of the Ascension - Acts 1:1-14; Matthew 28:16-20

Friday - Acts 21:37-22:29; 1 John 4:7-21; John 11:47-54

Saturday - Acts 22:30-23:11; 1 John 5:1-12; John 11:55-12:11

This Sunday's Schedule

All Grades

Happy Summer Vacation!

Please participate in the Badarak with your family!

Why Should We Become Stewards?

• To have a church for prayer and educational, cultural, and spiritual growth
• To meet our parishioners' needs
• To maintain our facilities
• To ensure our church for generations
• To support all of the wonderful programs and ministries listed in this bulletin
• To have a voice in electing our church leaders

Your annual stewardship commitment will help sustain our parish and contribute towards its growth. If you like what St. John's does in our community, and want to ensure that future generations of our families will always have a place of worship to call their home in the years ahead, please support us by becoming a Steward.

If you have questions or are unsure of your stewardship status, please call the church office at 248-569-3405. Thank you!

Parish News

ACYOA Alumni Survey

St. John Community Study Report Results Now Available

The results of the St. John Armenian Apostolic Church Community Study Report, which was undertaken by Dr. Vahe Sahakyan and Arus Khcheyan Movsesyan of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, are now available. We encourage our community members to read and discuss their findings, which are the result of written surveys and in-person information-gathering sessions in 2023-24. We anticipate convening a special parish town hall meeting on this important report in the near future.

An Appeal for Our Armenian American Veterans' Building

We're making progress!

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Lisa Mardigian, Paul Andonian, Dikran Callan, Gary Gozmanian, and our facilities and maintenance staff, and with the support of the ACYOA Juniors and Seniors, the Veterans' Building gymnasium has seen dramatic improvements in recent weeks in anticipation of Sports Weekend. The walls and ceiling have been repainted, the gym floor has been refinished, there are new LED ceiling lights, wall pads, and fire extinguisher doors, and the basketball hoops repaired. This is just the beginning of a new chapter for the Armenian-American Veterans' Building!

Since 1963, the Armenian American Veterans' Building has housed the many needs and interests of our community, from bridge classes to basketball games, Senior Lunch to ACYOA meetings, and even as a temporary sanctuary during our recent church renovations. Today, this community gem that has given us so much needs our help.

St. John needs you to join the crowd and support the Armenian American Veterans' Building renovation project, giving for the future to honor our past.

Please click here or on the image below for a brochure with more information on this vital, community-driven project. To give directly, please click here. Your participation and support is greatly appreciated!

Upcoming Parish Events

Memorial Day Grave Blessings

On Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, Fr. Aren will be available for grave blessings at the following times, weather permitting:

• Evergreen Cemetery - 10:00-10:30 am
• Woodlawn Cemetery - 10:30 am-12:00 pm
• Woodmere Cemetery - From 1:00 pm
• Oakland Hills Memorial Garden and White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery - Please contact the church office for an appointment

A general requiem will be held at the Woodlawn Martyrs' Monument at 12:00 pm for all Armenians buried there. If you wish to have individual names remembered, please bring a typed list for Fr. Aren, who will remember them during the service.

Did You Know...

The new St. John website now allows you to complete

many kinds of requests online.

You may request Hokehankist prayers, make In Lieu of Flowers donations, submit your annual Stewardship pledge card,

or make other donations.

You can also enroll your child in Church School

or complete a baptism or wedding application.

Volunteers are always needed to share their professional and personal talents! Please fill out a volunteer form, found under the "Giving" tab on the home page.

Did you know that you can support St. John Armenian Church every time you shop at Kroger?

If you use a Kroger Shopper's Card, just follow these simple instructions to link your card to the Kroger Community Rewards program. Kroger will give back a percentage of the total you spend on groceries each week to the church.

• Go to www.Kroger.com and log into your online account (or create an online account with your Shopper's Card number)
• Click Account and then My Account at the top right of the screen
• Click Community Rewards
• Search and select St. John's Armenian Church; or search for our Organization Number QY207

That's all you have to do to help support your church

every time you shop at Kroger.

St. John Armenian Church

22001 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, MI 48075

(248) 569-3405 | office@sjachurch.org

www.stjohnsarmenianchurch.org

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