{"id":6069,"date":"2011-05-18T07:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2011-05-18T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:20:48","slug":"blagovest-bells-appeal-to-orthodox-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/blagovest-bells-appeal-to-orthodox-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Blagovest Bells Appeal to Orthodox Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6072\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_01_200px1.jpg\" alt=\"Blagovest Bells - Orthodox Church Bells\" title=\"Blagovest_Bells_01_200px\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6072\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blagovest Bells<\/figcaption><\/figure> by Mark Galperin &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brothers and Sisters,<\/p>\n<p>Christ in our midst!  Since 1998, upon the blessing of Father Stephan Meholick, Rector of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Anselmo, California, I have tried to create an awareness of the once self-evident essential role of bell-ringing in Orthodox worship as prescribed by the Church\u2019s typikon.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, I have facilitated the selection, purchase, importation, installation, and implementation of traditional Orthodox Church bells here in the U.S. and also in Canada. This work has been rendered as a project of Expanding Edge LLC, under the trade name of Blagovest Bells. Our Blagovest Bells are ringing now in more than <strong>100 churches<\/strong> across North America.<\/p>\n<p>As the result of the current US economy downturn, our churches are experiencing serious financial difficulties, which results in a decreasing number of bell orders. Because of that, Blagovest Bells (<a href=\"http:\/\/russianbells.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/russianbells.com\/<\/a>) recently hasn&#8217;t been generating enough revenue to take care of my family, so I have to restructure my occupation. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, orders are continuing to come in and I believe that this valuable service for the Church and Orthodox community should be kept alive. For this purpose I want to transfer the Blagovest Bells business partially or in full to trustful hands. If anybody is interested, please call me at <strong>415-244-0495<\/strong> or email me at <a href=\"mailto:mark@russianbells.com\">mark@russianbells.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>God be with you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Galperin<\/strong><br \/>\nBlagovest Bells &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/russianbells.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/russianbells.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_01_675px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_01_675px.jpg\" alt=\"Blagovest Bells - Orthodox Church Bells set\" title=\"Blagovest_Bells_01_675px\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6074\" vspace=7 border=0 srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_01_675px.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_01_675px-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_02_675px2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_02_675px2.jpg\" alt=\"Blagovest Bells - Orthodox Church Bells sets\" title=\"Blagovest_Bells_02_675px\" width=\"675\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6075\" vspace=7 border=0 srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_02_675px2.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Blagovest_Bells_02_675px2-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Galperin &#8211; Dear Brothers and Sisters, Christ in our midst! Since 1998, upon the blessing of Father Stephan Meholick, Rector of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Anselmo, California, I have tried to create an awareness of the once self-evident essential role of bell-ringing in Orthodox worship as prescribed by the Church\u2019s typikon. &#8230; <a title=\"Blagovest Bells Appeal to Orthodox Community\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/blagovest-bells-appeal-to-orthodox-community\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blagovest Bells Appeal to Orthodox Community\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}