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Aug 17
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Srbadija Folklore to perform in Valparaiso at World Cultural Fest – Save-the-Date Sept. 19

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The St. Sava Srbadija Folklore Group will be performing at the 7th Annual World Cultural Festival taking place Saturday, September 19, 2015 from Noon to 5:00 p.m. in the Central Park Plaza, downtown Valparaiso, IN. The youth from St. Sava will open up the festival and go on stage at Noon.

Everyone is welcome to the event. This is a unique opportunity for the entire family to explore different cultures. Admission is free.

The 7th Annual World Cultural Festival is a family-friendly event featuring authentic cultural music and dance performances, handicrafts, and ethnic cuisine. The event claims to be Northwest Indiana’s largest and most comprehensive cultural festival with the 2015 festival promising to be the best ever.

For more information about the festival, visit http://www.valpovic.org/?p=668.

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Aug 12
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Folklore Registration and Practice Begins Thursday, Aug. 20

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Folklore registration and the first practice of the 2015-2016 season will take place Thursday, August 20 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the South Wing of St. Sava Church.

If your child has been thinking about joining/returning to Folklore, this is a perfect time. We will have a lot of new faces this season and will be working together to form new groups. We have a lot of fun activities planned for this season and the more members we have, the better!

  • 6:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m. – Registration
  • 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – Pee Wee Practice
  • 7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. – Middle Group Practice

At this point, it is undetermined if we will have a Senior Group. We will not know until registration and we see who commits. We are asking our older kids to please come out and join!

Due to work schedules and sports practice of some of our dancers, we decided to modify the practice schedule a bit. Please let me know if this does now work for you and we will see what we can do.

New blouses have been purchased for the girls and will be distributed by the end of the month.

Please complete the registration form and return with your payment on Thursday, August 20th.

Thank you all for your continuing support and we look forward to seeing you all at practice next week!

Board Appointments

The Folklore Groups would also like to welcome Lela Jensen to the Folklore Board and announce that Dawn Sisk will remain on the board as well.

Parent Support and Volunteers

We will be asking for help throughout the season, hoping that some of the parents can take the lead on luncheons and other special fundraising events.  If we all share the responsibility then not one person or group will burn out so quickly.

Biljana Vrbica and Ursula Brboric are volunteers leading the plan/organize/work scheduling for the luncheon after Divine Liturgy taking place Sunday, September 20. If you would like to help at this event, please send email to bvrbica29@gmail.com. Please let us know as soon as possible, preferably by August 20, if you will be able to help with this luncheon.  All proceeds will go to Folklore.

Aug 11
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Children’s Choir to perform in Valparaiso at World Cultural Fest – Save-the-Date Sept. 19

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The St. Sava Children’s Choir will be performing at the 7th Annual World Cultural Festival taking place Saturday, September 19, 2015 from Noon to 5:00 p.m. in the Central Park Plaza, downtown Valparaiso, IN. The youth from St. Sava will open up the festival and go on stage at Noon.

Everyone is welcome to the event. This is a unique opportunity for the entire family to explore different cultures. Admission is free.

The 7th Annual World Cultural Festival is a family-friendly event featuring authentic cultural music and dance performances, handicrafts, and ethnic cuisine. The event claims to be Northwest Indiana’s largest and most comprehensive cultural festival with the 2015 festival promising to be the best ever.

For more information about the festival, visit http://www.valpovic.org/?p=668.

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Aug 08
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Memorial Service – ПАРАСТОС

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Dear Parishioners,

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Longin, Sunday, August 9, in our Saint Sava Church we will serve a Memorial service for the innocent victims in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the persecution and suffering of the Serbian people in the Republic of Serbian Krajina and Croatia in the military operation “Storm” on August 4, 1995.

The Memorial service will begin immediately after Holy Liturgy. Although time is short, I hope that the faithful from our parish will come to the Holy Liturgy and to this memorial Service and together and worthily commemorate this important event in our recent past.

Rev Marko Matic

Драги парохијани,

Cа благословом нашег надлежног Архијереја, Његовог Преосвештенства Г. Лонгина, поводом обележавања двадесетогодишњице од прогона и страдања српског народа на подручју Републике Српске Крајине и Републике Хрватске у војној операцији „Олуја“ 4. августа 1995. године, сутра у недељу 9. августа у нашем храму Св. Саве служиће се парастос невино пострадалим жртвама у овом егзодусу.

Парастос ће почети одмах после Свете Литургије. Иако је време кратко, надам се да ће верни народ из наше парохије моћи да дође на Свету Литургију и парастос и на тај начин да достојно обележи овај важан догађај из наше недавне прошлости.

Aug 04
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RTS – Radio Television of Serbia features St. Sava Serb Fest 2015

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St. Sava Serb Fest 2015 (www.serbfest.org) was featured on another channel, this time by RTS – Radio Television of Serbia.

RTS is the largest broadcaster in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans.

The story about the festival also ran on RTS Morning News today, seen by 1.5 million people in Serbia.

Click the YouTube video to watch the featured segment.

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Aug 03
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St. Sava Serb Fest 2015 Featured on Bosnian Radio-Television Channel

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St. Sava Serb Fest 2015 (www.serbfest.org) was featured on RTV BN (Serbian Cyrillic: PTB БH), a Bosnian radio-television company based in Bijeljina.

RTV BN is currently the highest rated TV channel in Republika Srpska entity of BiH.

RTV BN is currently available in Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Australia, and New Zealand via satellite.

Click the YouTube video to watch the featured segment.

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Aug 03
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View Images from Serb Fest 2015

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The Serb Fest Organizing Committee and Volunteers, Executive Board, and Members of St. Sava Church express great appreciation to all who celebrated with us during the three days of Serb Fest 2015.

Please share the memories through the images available here and join us again next year.

The spirit of Serb Fest is with us all year long, during Sunday morning church services and in the many events that take place the rest of the year. We invite you to join us – visit www.saintsava.net throughout the year to learn more.

If you are a Facebook user, please take a few moments to view the images below or login to your Facebook account and tag your friends in the photos so we can share these images with everyone who attended.

Aug 02
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Ensemble “Frula” from Raska, Serbia performs this Friday 8/7 at St. Sava

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If you didn’t make it to St. Sava Serb Fest 2015 (www.serbfest.org), you have a special opportunity to experience more Serbian Culuture with the folkore ensemble “Frula” from Raska, Serbia during a special performance taking place Friday, August 7, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at the Pavilion at St. Sava Church in Merrillville, IN.

This performance is part of a tour the group will be making around the Midewest region of the U.S.

Also performing at this special event will be the St. Sava folklore group “Srbadija” composed of youth from the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church.

Tickets at the door will be $15 and children under 12 will be free. Proceeds will help support the travel expenses of the “Frula” ensemble.

Food and drink will be available for purchase.

For more information about this event, contact Karen Knezic by e-mail at srbadijafolklore@yahoo.com or call 219-406-7910.

Jul 31
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Local Newspaper Features Kolo Sisters and Strudels

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Local newspaper, The Times, featured a few images of Kolo Sisters preparing studels for the annual St. Sava Serb Fest. The photo above is by John J. Watkins of The Times.

The caption from the newspaper reads:

Zorka Glumac and Sandy Shinovich transfer freshly baked strudel to pans for cooling in preparation for this weekend’s Serb Fest at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Merrillville. The festival runs from noon to midnight Friday and Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday on the parish grounds, 9191 Mississippi St., Merrillville.