NEW SCHOOL BUILDING CONSECRATED
St. Petersburg, FL - On Sunday, October 15, 2006, His Grace Dr. Mitrophan, Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern America, with the assistance of Protojejrej Stavrophor Milan Stojanovic and Protojerej Stephen Zaremba, celebrated the the Divine Liturgy in the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg, FL. Immediately following the Divine Liturgy, Bishop Mitrophan consecrated the new multipurpose building, an old house bought in June 2005 to be used for Sunday School, Serbian School, a parish bookstore, meetings and other purposes.
After the rite of consecration, Bishop Mitrophan, Prota Milan and Prota Stephen and a large number of parishioners enjoyed a wonderful luncheon prepared by the Circle of Serbian Sisters St. Petka.
Church Board President Scott Raspopovich thanked the following persons for their help in making this project a success: Mike Babich- who donated all payments for site clearing and grading of the property; Jelena Loncarski- for her donation of $1500.00 towards the landscaping of our grounds; Alex Petrovich- for his $2000.00 donation when we needed it to complete the current work; George Milanovich- for his donation of time and material of our air conditioning unit; Stojan Lukic- for his donation of time and material for the remodeling of our restroom; West Coast Lodge 208- for their donation of $2000.00 from the proceeds of the S.N.F. midwinter golf tournament; Mladen Miljanic- for his donation of all electrical wiring; Dalibor Zolotic- for his donation of all marble window sills; Zeljko Jankovic- for his donation of all communication and cable wiring; Milenko Despotovich- for his donation of all cabinets and countertops; Dr. Mike Bojkovic- for his donation of two air conditioning units for our church hall; Zarko Perucica- for his donation of all the drywall.
Special thanks to Zeljko Sljivic who served as chairman of this project.
The following persons were thanked for the time, skills and labor they invested in the project: Branislav Drazic; Dragan Stanisic; Vojo Pavlovic; Milan Rakovic; Milorad Jovanovic; Dusan Sljivic; Zarko Zdralo; Nedeljko Jankovic; Stevo Karac; Mirko Obradovic; Zdravko Kordic; Brano Skopljak; Milenko Bozic; Slavko Skopljak; Marinko Bozic; Milisav Pavlovic; Marko Kacajeic; Branko Rakovic; Cedo Radovanovic; Thom Chenoweth; Vitomir Andric; Mike Weiss; Zoran Lazic and Scott Raspopovich.
If anyone who worked on this project is not named, the omission is not intentional. We ask that any omissions be pointed and that we may correct them.
This building is an important step in building the future of our parish, especially the children. Everyone’s time, work and donations are still needed to finish an additional classroom, to fence the property in and for landscaping. Of course there is still a mortgage on the property which we need to pay off as soon as we can.
We congratulate Prota Stephen, the Executive Board, teachers, children and all the parishioners of St. Sava for this tremendous accomplishment.