May 21, 2013

Youth

Spiritual Day for All Families at Lake Poway — Sunday, October 7

On Sun­day, Octo­ber 7, our parish will hold a spir­i­tual day/luncheon for all fam­i­lies at Lake Poway to rec­og­nize our chil­dren and their accom­plish­ments over the past sum­mer in the Sum­mer Club and Spir­i­tual Com­pe­ti­tions. Fam­i­lies will gather with the priests and ser­vants of the church for fel­low­ship, a potluck lunch, and many spir­i­tual and sports activities […]

St. Demiana Youth Teams Shine at 2012 Diocese Competitions

YSC 2012

Over the past few months, our parish’s youth and chil­dren have worked dili­gently through­out the Sum­mer Club to pre­pare for the two Dio­cese sum­mer com­pe­ti­tions, the Youth Spir­i­tual Com­pe­ti­tion (YSC) on August 18 and Mahra­gan Al Ker­aza on August 25. At the very begin­ning of this process, Fr. Moses told the ser­vants and youth that […]

Youth Services this Week

Wish­ing you all a blessed and joy­ful Great Holy Fast. With God’s grace, our ser­vices for the youth this week will include the fol­low­ing: Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 23 Fr. Moses will speak at the UCSD Cop­tic Club on “The Ortho­dox Under­stand­ing of Tribu­la­tions, Part 2″ from 7:00–7:45p. After­wards, the youth are invited to din­ner with Fr. Moses […]

Now Available: “More than Just Sports” DVD

Par­tic­i­pat­ing in sports activites is not only about phys­i­cal gain. It’s about teach­ing our youth life lessons and mainly about build­ing their psy­cho­log­i­cal and spir­i­tual strength and expe­ri­ence.
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Reminder: Church Spiritual Night on October 31

As a reminder, our parish will host a beau­ti­ful and enjoy­able Spir­i­tual Night this Mon­day, Octo­ber 31 as an alter­na­tive to the cel­e­bra­tion of dark­ness, hor­ror, and evil that is called Hal­loween. As Fr. Moses has said through­out the last few weeks, it is not appro­pri­ate for our chil­dren to cel­e­brate this hol­i­day in any way, shape or […]

Family Celebration Dinner a Blessed Success

Family Celebration Dinner

On Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 18, our parish hosted its first ever Fam­ily Cel­e­bra­tion Din­ner to cel­e­brate our chil­dren and youth, and their accom­plish­ments through­out the sum­mer months. With God’s grace, the event was a blessed suc­cess that every­one enjoyed. We were blessed to have almost 300 parish­ioners gath­ered at South Bay Fish and Grill located in on the […]

Important Announcement for Sunday, June 19

Keraza Children

Beloved par­ents and chil­dren, please note that, as of Sun­day, June 19, our Sun­day School pro­gram will be mod­i­fied to focus on the cur­ricu­lum for the Mahra­gan Al Ker­aza (for chil­dren in K to 6th grade) and the Youth Spir­i­tual Com­pe­ti­tion (for youth in 7th grade to col­lege). Under the new sys­tem, all chil­dren will go […]

Parish Announces the Opening of St. Didymus Orthodox Bookstore

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With great joy, our parish announces the grand open­ing of St. Didy­mus Ortho­dox Book­store, our new parish book­store serv­ing the needs of a mod­ern Ortho­dox Chris­t­ian con­gre­ga­tion. St. Didy­mus Book­store fea­tures a wealth of spir­i­tu­ally edi­fy­ing mate­ri­als for both Eng­lish– and Arabic-speakers as well as sev­eral devo­tional items, such as icons, crosses, pen­dants, neck­laces, vigil lamps, and […]

Church Summer Club to Begin Wednesday, June 15

YSC 2010 Teams with Fr. Moses

Our parish joy­fully announces the start of this year’s Annual Sum­mer Club for youth of all ages on Wednes­day, June 15 from 6:30–9:00p. The Church Sum­mer Club is a won­der­ful ser­vice in which fam­i­lies bring their chil­dren of any age to the church for spir­i­tual activ­i­ties and fel­low­ship. This year, our spir­i­tual activ­i­ties will focus on […]

Service Opportunity for College and High School Youth

God's Extended Hand

The parish invites her col­lege and high school level youth to take the bless­ing of a won­der­ful ser­vice on Wednes­day, June 29 in prepar­ing and serv­ing din­ner to men and women in Down­town San Diego who have no warm home. From the offi­cial announce­ment: Call­ing all high school and college-aged girls and guys from Ortho­dox Chris­t­ian Parishes […]

Online Registration for Diocese Summer Youth Conventions Now Open

2011 CYC Transformed Flyer Final

Last week, the Dio­cese of Los Ange­les opened online reg­is­tra­tion for the annual Sum­mer Youth Con­ven­tions for junior high, high school, and col­lege youth. This year, all of the con­ven­tions will take place in Big Bear, Cal­i­for­nia under the aus­pices of our beloved father, His Grace Bishop Ser­a­pion and the var­i­ous dioce­san clergy serv­ing each […]

Register Now for the Diocese Youth Conventions

The Dio­cese joy­fully announces its annual sum­mer con­ven­tions for youth in junior high, high school, and col­lege which will take place in Big Bear from the end of July through the begin­ning of August.
All infor­ma­tion, includ­ing dates and prices, ma…