Dear friends!

We are gathering on Saturday 3-rd of March at 15:00 to prepare the temple for the Easter sevices. Please join us.

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Dear friends!

We warmly invite you to take part in a Christmas art competition

“The Nativity of Christ”.

The project aims to develop spiritual, moral and cultural education of children and adults in New Zealand. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Artworks of any kind using any materials can be submitted to the competition. The topic of the artwork should be related to Christmas (Note that artworks on such topics as New Year, Father Frost, snowmen, etc. will not be accepted for participation).

The artworks should be tidy, have title, and be provided with the following information: title, full name of the author or authors, age, address and contact phone.
The competition closes on January, 3, 2018. Artworks can be submitted to Wellington Church of Christ the Saviour from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sundays.

The results of the competition will be announced on January, 7, 2018, after the Divine Liturgy (i.e. around 12:00 noon) in the hall of Wellington Church of Christ the Saviour.

The winners will receive prizes.

More information on the competition: 0212372236 — f. Aleksei Popkov.

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On November, 25, 2017 the annual Russian cultural festival took place in Wellington, New Zealand. The festival was organised by Wellington Russian Club chaired by Victor Gaiduch, with the support of the Embassy of Russian Federation in New Zealand and personally the Russian ambassador in New Zealand Valery Tereshchenko. Many people caring about Russian culture took part in the festival.

No one could stay indifferent to the diverse musical programme of the festival. The dancing group ‘Smuglyanka’ from the Russian Othodox church of Auckland was met, as always, by a storm of applause. The group consists of more than 20 people. Other groups and performers also contributed to the musical part of the festival. Here are the names of just a few of them: Olga Panasenko from Auckland, whose beautiful voice enchanted the audience by its diapason and richness, Vladimir Bell – the musical director of the festival who also performed as a singer, Aleksey Medvedev – the sound engineer of the festival, a talented guitarist and singer, ‘Kaleidoscope’ – a dance group from Wellington, Anastasiya Davis – a singer from Wellington, and many others. The number of people who attended the festival this year exceeded all expectations, some of them had to watch the concert standing in the aisles, because there were not enough chairs for everyone.

The guests of the festival were also astonished by the diversity of delicious food prepared there. Cold kvass soup ‘Okroshka’, Russian dumplings, traditional kvass and pancakes, kebab and gingerbread, candies and lollipops, a great variety of cakes, and other delicacies were on offer. Such variety of dishes let no one go hungry.

The parish and sisterhood of Wellington Church of Christ the Saviour took active part in the organisation of the festival. The church choir performed a few Orthodox chants in the first part of the concert, and opened the second part by a set of folk songs. Father Alexis Popkov played a few musical pieces on gusli – a traditional Russian instrument.

Tatiana Sims and her daughter Anna organised and ran a master class on making and decorating Russian dolls and other crafts.

The sisterhood of the church chaired by Natalia Reid held a food stall with baking and other delicacies prepared according to traditional Russian recipes. It is worth noting that this stall received particular attention of the festival audience

Char-grilled kebabs, pancakes cooked right at the festival, milkshakes and other delicious treats that could be purchased outside the festival hall, were also provided by the parish of the Russian church.

This event unites many people and brings a lot of positive emotions to everyone, organisers and guests alike. Let us hope that, with God’s help, this festival will continue to be held in Wellington in future.

P.S. Thank you to Victor Gaiduch and Yana Skaler for the photographs.

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ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ на Ежегодный Фестиваль Русской Культуры в Субботу 25 ноября 2017 с 11:00 до 16:00 в помещении Wellington Wesley Parish Hall, 75 Taranaki Street, Wellington.

П Р О Г Р А М М А:

11.00 Добро пожаловать на Фестиваль

11.30 Официальная церемония открытия

11.50 – 12.30 Концерт «Моя Россия», первая часть

13.15 – 14.00 Концерт «Моя Россия», вторая часть

14.40 – 15.30 Концерт, музыкально-танцевальное отделение

16.00 Закрытие Фестиваля

В концертной части программы примут участие артисты из Веллингтона и Оклэнда. Будет проходить выставка художников и мастеров прикладного искусства. Традиционные русские блюда, кулинария, деликатесы.

Входной билет – 5.00 долларов (детям до 5-ти лет бесплатно).

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25 ноября 2017 года в 19:00 по адресу: St. James Church, 71 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt состоится концерт сербского хора “Vox Serbica”. Хор исполнит духовные и фольклорные песнопения. Стоимость входного билета – $10 (школьники – бесплатно).

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November 11, 2017 at 17:00 in the Romanian Orthodox Church of Wellington (511 Adelaide Rd, Berhampore, Berhampore, Wellington 6023) will collect donations for the charter activities of the parish. In the program of the evening: BBQ, lottery $ 2, musical numbers. The admission fee is $ 25. All are invited to attend. In connection with this, some changes will take place in the timetable for the services of the Russian Church. Read more …

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Notice!

All members of the Church of Christ the Saviour in Wellington are notified that by the blessing of His Grace, Bishop George, the Annual General Meeting of the Parish will be held on 1 October 2017. The meeting will commence at 12:00 in the church hall.

Agenda:

1. Rector’s Address

2. Warden’s Address

3. Treasurer’s Report

4. Sisterhood Report

5. Auditing Committee Report

6. Election of Secretary and Treasurer

7. Election of Parish Council Members

8. Election of Auditing committee

9. Current Issues If two thirds of eligible parish members are not present by 12:00, a second meeting will be called. That meeting will start one half hour later at 12:30 and will be a valid annual meeting regardless of how many parish members are present. Those members that have not yet paid their membership dues for 2017 may do so at any time before the meeting.

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