SAINT ANNA FOOD FESTIVAL TO-GO 2021
As the parish of St. Anna, we are blessed to be able to celebrate more than one feast day and it is our hope to be able to share our Orthodox faith with our greater community again by serving them delicious Greek food, wine and pastries; food which they have come to enjoy and appreciate greatly during our many festivals held here on site years past.
With that being said:
We are happy to announce that Saint Anna’s Greek Orthodox Church will be hosting a food festival this year!
Due to both the Covid pandemic and our new church build, this year's food festival will be very different from any festival that we have had in the recent past. We are planning to hold four, “Food To-Go Festivals”; one to celebrate each of our church’s feast days with delicious Greek dinners, pastries and wines. All dinners will be available for pre-order/prepay from our Saint Anna food festival website at: festival.saintanna.org.
Please mark your calendars, as you don’t want to miss out on any of these opportunities to participate!
Our Food To-Go Festival dates are:
PARISH CELEBRATION MAY, 15, 2021 12:00-5:00 PM
We will kick off our series with a celebration for our St. Anna parish family only! We will have barbecue Greek chicken or a vegetarian dinner to choose from, along with baklava for dessert. A bottle of Greek wine or additional baklava may be added to your order for an additional cost to suit your tastes. All food items must be pre ordered/prepaid, by going to our festival website at: festival.saintanna.org.
Order early (before May 7th), as there are a limited number of meals being offered during this first hosting (250 to be exact) and once they are gone, they are gone
FEAST OF SAINT ANNA JULY 24-25, 2021 12:00-5:00 PM
This two day celebration of our patron Saint Anna will be open to our parish and the greater Roseville community and we will be offering the same menu as our celebration festival for our parish in May. All orders will be preorder/prepay. We hope to learn from our first Food To-Go experience and serve approximately 800 guests.
FEAST OF STS. JOACHIM AND ANNA SEPTEMBER 11-12, 2021 12:00-5:00 PM
This two day celebration will honor Saints. Joachim and Anna and will be open to our parish and the greater Roseville community with a menu of a pistachio and a vegetarian dinner with desert and Greek wine option. Again, all orders will be preorder/prepay. We hope to serve approximately 800 guests.
FEAST OF THE CONCEPTION OF THE THEOTOKOS DECEMBER 11-12, 2021
12:00- 5:00 PM
This two day celebration will honor our beloved Mother of the Theotokos and will offer vegetarian dinners (in honor of the Christmas fast) to our parish and greater Roseville community. We hope to serve 800 guests with preorder/prepay dinners with dessert options.
HOW CAN YOU BE INVOLVED?
FIRST— Please place your order at our festival Food To-Go website: festival.saintanna.org. You can order your meals for yourself and/ or consider sponsoring a meal for an essential worker too if you would like to.
If you are not able to come to the food to go, you might also consider donating to help defray our costs, as a way to contribute to our festival’s success!
SECOND- As we plan all of our feast days, we ask that you consider signing up to physically help with the event as well. We will need volunteers to cook, to serve, as well as the all important jobs of set up and clean up!
Please keep in mind that this isn’t just a Food To-Go event. It is yet another opportunity for us to come together in our faith, through food and philotimo, so that we might share who we are as an Orthodox Christian parish with the community that we live in and are called to serve.
For additional information, please contact us att:
Christy Moustris moustris@comcast.net
Stephane Tziavaras stephanetziavaras@gmail.com
Yours in Christ,
Christy & Stephane, Co-Chairs
Greek Food To-Go 2021