Clicking here goes to the Home Page Find something on the site in a hurry.
Home, Site News, Staff, and Site History pages. St. Lukes Orthodox Church Home PageTell us what you think.View the Sunday bulletin. Pages that deal with St. Luke the Evangelist Orthodox Church. What's the news at St. Lukes.View all the previous and current Evangelist newsletters.Shop at the St. Luke's Bookstore without even getting up.Download the Divine Liturgy.Information about St. Luke Orthodox Church including the Mission and Vision statements. Pages for 'keeping in touch' with God. View the prayer of the week and all other previos prayers of the week.Need to pray for something? What is the Orthodox Church and how/why do Orthodox Christians worship? What is the Orthodox Church of America?Who was St. Luke the Evangelist?What is Pascha? See what it's like at St. Luke's.How is Orthodoxy playing a role in the present times?Learn what are icons and how are they used in the Orthodox Church today.Everything there is to know about Orthodoxy... Pages for Organizations of St. Lukes. Christian Education, Youth Group, Music, Church Resource Center, Adult Education, and Junior Olympics.Maintenance, New Building, Strategic Planning, Cell Phone Tower, Inventory, Cemetery/Memorial Book, and Historian.Outreach, Charities, Internet, Evangelist Newsletter, Media, Prison, Sanctity of Life, and Mission.Fellowship, Supply Coordinator, Prayer, Women's Ministry, New Americans, Sunshinem, Flowers, and Vestments.


 Welcome to the St. Luke Web Page.

Search the site.Talk with fellow followers of Christ.See What St. Luke Orthodox Church has planned.Password protected area for only members of St. Luke Orthodox Church.Contact the St. Luke Orthodox Church Web Development Team.

Palm Sunday 2001
April 7, 2001

Father Andrew gives his sermon.

St. Luke celebrated Christ's entry into Jerusalem by decorating the church with palms and branches. After Liturgy the entire congregation led by the altar servers & clergy and carrying palms and branches made a procession around the church while singing hymns. In the procession the Church is Jerusalem and we are the children singing, "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." (John 12)

At the end of the procession around the church, the congregation had the end of the service. The people of the church start off the procession. The people prepare to go around the church.

St. Luke Breaks Ground for New Building
April 4th, 2001

.

On Wednesday April 4th, St. Luke held the ground breaking ceremony for the new bell tower and educational complex. Bishop Job of the Dioceses of the Midwest officiated along with Fr. Andrew Harrison, our rector, and Fr. Nicholas Jonas of SS. Constantine & Helen Parish. Other clergy attending were Fr. Raphael Biernacki, Fr. Oleg Mironowic, Fr. Alexis Fedec, Deacons Andrew Werbiansky, and Danial Doss. Mr. Peter Coulos, our real estate attorney and Mr. Nick Batistich and his son our architects and Mr. Matt Englebrake from Security Church Finance, the bond issuing company, also attended. Bishop Job performed the traditional bell tower ground breaking ceremony by reading the blessing and placing three rocks to commemorate the Trinity on the spot where the bell tower is to be erected.

. A group shot of the entire church and visitors.. .

After this Bishop Job and Father Andrew circled and sprinkled the land where the educational complex will be constructed. After the blessing all processed into the church for the Presanctified Liturgy. After the Liturgy and evening Lenten dinner was provided for parishioners and guests.

Wow, the special effects are amazing.

At this rate we could dig the foundation ourselves.

A lenten dinner was held in the basement. A lenten dinner was held in the basement. A lenten dinner was held in the basement.

The lenten dinner in the basement was enjoyed by all.

Back to Current Events