PARISH VOICES

Our series looking back twenty years enters its ninth month. Last month I shared the August 2006 issue, a quiet one, with the priest on vacation and the parish singing Paraklesis in borrowed churches. September 2006 is the opposite. Everyone is back, school is starting, and the newsletter is twelve pages of a parish clearing its throat for a new year. Fr. Tom's message is addressed to parents, and it does not waste time. He starts with a newborn's forty-day blessing, jumps to

Sunday, August 30, 2026 and Tuesday, September 1, 2026 — On the last Sunday of the ecclesiastical year, our outgoing and incoming Presiding Priests served Divine Liturgy side by side, marking a peace-filled, beautiful handover. August 30 was the Apodosis of the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner, and Fr. Tom and Fr. Rob were concelebrants, both vested in the deep red worn in honor of martyrs and the Cross.

Our series looking back twenty years enters its eighth month. Last month I shared the July 2006 issue, with its building-fund arithmetic and Fr. Tom's story about a couple who would not give up their airplane seats. If July asked "what comes next?" the answer in August is, "a break!" The August 2006 Messenger is quieter, in the way August always is. The priest is on vacation, the knitters are on holiday, the President's Corner is dark, and the whole issue leans toward one thi

One of the funny things about writing a retrospective is stepping back into my memories to think about what’s been going on over the past few months. This quarter’s Treasurer Update includes Pascha! Here it is early August and I can hardly believe that Pascha was less than four months ago…it feels more like a year! But to settle down to the numbers. On the giving side...

Saturday, August 1, 2026 — For one week every summer, a lakeside camp on Raft Island in South Puget Sound fills up with kids who are fighting cancer, the families who are fighting it with them, and a small army of volunteers whose whole job is to create "a place of joy, rest, and unconditional love in the midst of life’s most difficult journey." Volunteers from Holy Apostles have returned, year after year, to help make Camp Agape Northwest possible for nearly thirty years, a

Our series looking back twenty years enters its seventh month. Last month I shared the June 2006 issue, with its feast-day celebration and a graduating class headed out the door. The July 2006 issue is the sound of a parish exhaling, and then, almost immediately, asking what comes next. "Now that we are settled into our new church," George Plumis writes in his President's Corner, the questions have turned practical: ongoing building-fund contributions, maintenance, a capit

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 — We came together to celebrate our beloved parish patron saints, the Holy Apostles, on their feast day. We were blessed with a great turnout at an beautiful local park and fair weather! It was afternoon of togetherness and kids running around having fun; of grilled hot dogs, souvlaki, potato salad, and banana pudding. Thank you to our Parish Council for spearheading our feast day and extra special thanks to Josh, Tina, and Januarius for their leadershi

Our series looking back twenty years enters its sixth month. Last month I shared the May 2006 issue of The Messenger, the parish catching its breath after its very first Pascha in the new Shoreline building. June is when our heroes finally get to throw a party. The front page of the June 2006 issue looks toward the parish's name-day: the Holy Apostles Feast Day Celebration. Vespers on Thursday, June 29, with dessert and coffee to follow, then Orthros and Divine Liturgy on Fr

We celebrate your hard work and all your gifts! May God guide your steps and bless the years ahead! We are so proud of you!

Last week our Men's Ministry just wrapped up the last Pub Night of the ministry year! Let's look back at the last two years of fellowship and connection by the numbers: 10 Pub Nights 5 Breakfast Outings 1 Octoberfest Cookout 1 Mother's Day Brunch (with bonus fire alarm!) Countless boxes packed and moved into storage! Thank you to Nick Strauss for leading our Men's Ministry over the past two years, and thank you to all the men of Holy Apostles who have participated!