If you would like to see your name appear in the 2024 ACRY Yearbook, please see Adam Zak.    Patrons are $6.00: Booster: $3.00 and Memorial Listing: $6.00 each.    Thank you for supporting the American Carpatho-Russian Youth organization. Visit https://www.acrod.org/directories/organizations/senioracry/acryn-e/acry-annual for more information on this event

  FALL YOUTH ENCOUNTER AT CAMP NAZARETH  NOVEMBER 10-12 FOR AGES 8-18!    Presented by the National Jr

PRAYER PROGRAM FOR ALL THE CLERGY OF OUR DIOCESE!  From the Office of our beloved Metropolitan Gregory, we are re-affirming the continuation of a Prayer Program that we initiated in 2021 for Parish usage.  The goal is to have our faithful everywhere in the Diocese praying daily for our Priests, Deacons and Seminarians, asking God to give them health and continued strength to minister to our people, while at the same time praying for more vocations to the Priesthood.  Please note: THIS IS NOT A SICK LIST.  With this Prayer

NICHOLAS CEMETERY – VETERAN’S DAY SERVICES AT THE ST. NICHOLAS CEMETERY Father R. Michael Zak will perform a memorial service at the Cemetery Grotto for Veteran’s Day on Saturday, November 11th, 2023 at 10:00 A.M. Please come to the cemetery for the service and pay your respects to our veterans. Thanks, Tom

ANDERSON’S CHRISTMAS CANDY SALE!  Anderson’s Christmas Candy is being sold as a fundraiser by our A.C.R.Y.  The funds for this sale are used for the obligations that our local chapter has to the National ACRY Stewardship Campaign, which includes the Publication Fund, Camp Nazareth Fund, Mission Fund, Scholarship Fund and other Ministries of our Diocese.  Please support our local chapter in this fundraising endeavor by filling out the order form on the back of the brochures found in the Parish Hall and Church

FREE SENIOR CITIZEN LUNCHEON! EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, STARTING OCTOBER 10, 2023 – 12:00 NOON HOMESTEAD UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL HALL, CORNER OF 9TH AVENUE AND ANN STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120.  LET’S GET TOGETHER FOR FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MADE OUR 2023 FALL FOOD FESTIVAL BAKE SALE A REAL SUCCESS by volunteering your services, bakery goods, donating money and purchasing goods.  God bless you!  Jean Colantoni & Carole Dunn Festival Chairpersons

YOUNG ADULT FALL RETREAT – OCTOBER 27-29, 2023 AT CAMP NAZARETH!  The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh Y2AM and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church USA present… ICONOGRAPHY: AWED BY THE BEAUTY, WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER MICHAEL KAPELUCK, ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHER.  Join us for a rejuvenating weekend with young adults ages 18-35 from all jurisdictions to connect with Christ and one another at Camp Nazareth Retreat & Conference Center, 339 Pew Rd, Mercer, PA

FALL FOOD FESTIVAL BASKET RAFFLE!  We are looking for people to donate themed baskets.  Time is drawing near so please let us know by September 1st.  Monetary donations and gift cards will be accepted!  This is an important part of the Festival as it is all profit because of your generosity! Pani Deborah will joyfully receive your donations or answer questions you may have

Camp Nazareth has a great program designed for the week!  Adventurous participants will learn from college professors, elementary school teaches, local forestry professionals as well as participate in sessions offered by the Jennings Environmental Center, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Science Center.  There will be forestry expeditions, children’s book signings by a local author, water sampling and testing from our local streams and rivers, biology and geology labs and expeditions, daily meteorology

SCHOOL’S OUT! TIME FOR VACATIONS AND FUN! That may be true, but, at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, it also means something else. This is the time of the year when we, in partnership with FOCUS –NORTH AMERCA, gear up our campaign to provide backpacks for worthy students in the Duquesne City School District. To sponsor a backpack costs $25.00. In the past, our church members have been very generous in their support of this project. If your personal budget will allow, please consider sponsoring more than one backpack

CALLING ALL OUR SKILLED CULINARY PERSONAL! JOIN YOUR FELLOW PIROHI PINCHING POSSE PARTICIPANTS AND ASSEMBLE IN THE PARISH HALL FOR TWO SOCIAL EVENINGS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, and THURSDAY, JUNE 29   6:00-8:00 (8:30) P.M. Were making our a variety of our famously irresistable Pirohi for the FALL FESTIVAL! It'll be a splendid two nights to get out of the house and enjoy the fellowship of your church family, engaged in an activity that you expertly do SO well while displaying a perfect example of what stewardship is all about. We

A SANDWICH LUNCH ON FATHER’S DAY (JUNE 18, 2023)! The considerate women of St. Nicholas are planning an appetizing and nutritional sandwich buffet meal in honor of all the “Dads”, Grandfathers, God-Fathers, and Godly men of the parish on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 18th, following the Divine Liturgy in the auditorium

ANNUAL ALTAR BOY RETREAT – JUNE 25-28 ON THE GROUNDS OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR SEMINARY AND CHRIST THE SAVIOUR CATHEDRAL IN JOHNSTOWN, PA!  Please mark you calendars so that your son is able to attend.  The parish covers the cost of attendance for all of our Altar Boys.  ALSO, the Treasury for the Altar Boy Retreat Fund is beginning to run low and events for and around the retreat may need to be scaled back. The planned outing for this year is a trip to Fort Ligonier and Idlewild Park.   If you are an Alumni of

SURPRISE!! IT'S THE ANNUAL FALL FOOD FESTIVAL MEETING!  There will be a kick-off meeting for the Annual Fall Food Festival on Sunday, June 4th after the Divine Liturgy (at approximately 11:15 A.M