20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
2022 is our year to celebrate our 20th anniversary, and it’s also a chance for us to look back and reflect on what Saint Sahag has meant to each of us. That’s why our theme for this milestone is “20 Things We Love About Saint Sahag”. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be hearing from parishioners and friends about what they love about Saint Sahag on Facebook, Instagram and
more. What’s something you love about Saint Sahag? Share it with us!
We will be collecting these stories and sharing them with our congregation, culminating in our 20th Anniversary Dinner and Celebration on December 10th.
That’s not all we’re doing for our 20th.
In the last ten years, we’ve seen an explosion in activity. From candlelight Christmas services, to baptisms and weddings, to Lenten dinners and our Armenian Festival, many people from our congregation, neighborhood, and the Upper Midwest have come to Saint Sahag for fellowship and celebration. One important reason for all of this is our priest. Anyone who’s been to Saint Sahag
in the past decade has seen firsthand the effect our Father Tadeos, Yn. Gayane, and their family
have had on our church.
To ensure that future generations of Saint Sahag will have a full-time priest, we’ve set a goal to raise $50,000 toward our endowment fund. We have 260 families on our mailing list and if every family gave a personally meaningful gift, we could easily meet our goal. It’s an incremental but important step toward our goal of having $1.5 million in our endowment, which would endow the
pastoral leadership at Saint Sahag in perpetuity.
The Banquet is generously sponsored by members of our community, therefore, in lieu of payment for the dinner, we request your donation to the Endowment Fund for Pastoral Leadership of Saint Sahag along with your RSVP. This donation will also allow you to be a part of our commemorative booklet which will be distributed during the Banquet.
If you would like to attend the Banquet, please RSVP online below and make a donation. Please indicate in the comments section the number of attendees. Your donation may include a message in honor of the 20th Anniversary, or you may place an advertisement. If applicable, please include camera-ready graphics or photos.
For questions and/or additional information, please feel free to contact the Committee at info@saintsahag.org.
A church is nothing without its people. As we emerge from the pandemic, we reflect on the lessons learned and about the importance of community. Thank you for being a part of our first twenty years. Here’s to our next twenty.
With Blessings,
Michele Byfield Angell with the 20th Anniversary Committee
Parish Council Chairwoman
The Banquet is generously sponsored by members of our community, therefore, in lieu of payment for the dinner, we request your donation to the Endowment Fund for Pastoral Leadership of Saint Sahag along with your RSVP.
Please add your RSVP details in the comments section.
Thank you
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Saturday, December 10th, 6:00PM
Celebratory Banquet in Honor of the 20th Anniversary
Sunday, December 11th, 10AM
Divine Liturgy, Soorp Badarak
Presided by
Very Rev. Fr. Simeon Odabashian
Diocesan Vicar
By the blessing of the Primate, Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan