Delicious Food & Wonderful Charities

Friday, October 21, 2022 &
Saturday, October 22, 2022

11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

New, Exciting Items Coming To The Menu This Year!

Authentic, Handmade Greek Food & Pastries

The International Greek Food Festival, the largest ethnic festival in Arkansas, has been serving food, friends and the community for the past 35 years. All the food served at this festival has come about because of our great love of cooking and good food. The wonderful cuisine associated with the many cultures that make up the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is the product of our immigrant forefathers. We boast a long line of cooks from various culinary traditions, making up the best of our Church's culture - Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Indian, Middle Eastern, English and a dash of American. From these cultures has evolved this distinctive collection of foods identified with the Greek Orthodox Church - a style of cooking that not only captures the traditions of our heritage but makes eager eaters call for more.

This vast array of wonderful, savory dishes embodies not only the scents and flavors of our heritage, but a time-honored tradition of faith and family that each of us cherishes. Captured from memory or perhaps from scraps of paper, these recipes represent a priceless gift to the members of the Greek Orthodox Church, for here are contained the foods and traditions of our forefathers passed down for future generations to remember and enjoy.

Charities

Past Charities

    • ACCESS Schools
    • Alzheimer’s Arkansas
    • American Diabetes Association
    • American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas
    • Arkansas Children’s Hospital
    • Arkansas Foodbank
    • Arkansas Health Care Access Foundation, Inc.
    • Arkansas Pediatric
    • Arthritis Foundation
    • Bethany Christian Services
    • Big Brothers Big Sisters
    • CareLink
    • CARTI Foundation
    • CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
    • Centers for Youth and Families
    • Children’s Museum of Arkansas
    • Community Connections
    • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
    • Easterseals Arkansas
    • Girl Scouts of Ouachita Council
    • Good Shepherd Ecumenical Retirement Center
    • Harmony Health Clinic
    • Heifer International
    • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
    • Literacy Action of Central Arkansas
    • Love, Truth, Care Ministries
    • March of Dimes
    • Make-A-Wish Foundation
    • Our House
    • Ronald McDonald House
    • The Arkansas Hospice
    • The Miracle League of Arkansas
    • UAMS Family Home
    • Union Rescue Mission
    • United Way
    • Wolfe Street Foundation
    • Young Life
    • Youth Home, Inc.

Community

In its 35 years, the festival has donated more than $1.5 million dollars to more than 30 charities that serve children, families, and communities throughout central Arkansas. Proceeds from this year’s festival will benefit the Annunciation Scholarship Foundation and the Annunciation Ministries, as well as these nonprofit organizations:

Community Connections logo
Community Connections
communityconnectionsar.org
Phone: (501) 733-1627

Community Connections is dedicated to providing quality extracurricular activities for children with special needs as well as support for their families. Programs offered include football, soccer, art, music, theatre, cheerleading, basketball, tennis, volleyball, golf, swim, a teen game group, and martial arts. Family resources includes an autism resource center, parent support groups, mental health support, educational workshops/webinars, and respite care events. Programs are offered free of charge to families in multiple cities in central Arkansas.

Easter Seals Arkansas logo
Easterseals Arkansas
eastersealsar.com
Phone: (501) 227-3600

Easterseals Arkansas is a nonprofit health and human services agency dedicated to helping children and adults with disabilities and special needs achieve greater independence and improved lives. Easterseals provides services across the state to meet the varying needs of people with disabilities and their families. These comprehensive services provide a continuum of care from birth to aging adults and focus on the family as a whole.

Centers For Youth And Families
TheCentersAR.com
Phone: (501) 666-9436

Centers for Youth and Families ("The Centers") began in 1884 and, today, continues its dedication to changing lives of those most vulnerable in our community – children in foster care, teenagers with no safe place to live, parents in need of answers to be the best parents they can be, students who need specialized academic instruction, and people of all ages struggling with mental and behavioral health diagnoses or substance abuse. Every year, The Centers' 300 employees strive to serve nearly 4,500 individuals from across Arkansas and create pathways to hope and healing.

Youth Home logo
Youth Home
youthhome.org
Phone: (501) 821-5500

Youth Home is one of the largest and most experienced nonprofit mental health providers in Arkansas. Its mission is to equip and empower youth, adults and families to become healthier contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral health care. Mental illness is illness like diabetes or cancer, and Youth Home is committed to ending the stigma that keeps people from seeking help when they need it.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas
RMHCArkansas.org
Phone: (501) 374-1956

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas provides its services free to children and families through its three core programs: Ronald McDonald House (1981), has provided a "home-away-from-home" for over 40,000 families whose child has been sent to a Little Rock hospital (ACH, Baptist, UAMS) for life-saving medical care. Each night they have a private suite, meals, laundry, friendly faces and more; Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (2009), a 40-foot mobile dental clinic provides free dental care to underserved children; Ronald McDonald Family Room at UAMS (2020), on the hospital's NICU floor, where families can stay together overnight steps from their baby, as well as day services including, snacks, shower, laundry, and a quiet place to relax.

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Patron Sponsors

Debbie and Gabi Abdo
Arthur's Prime Steakhouse
College Prep Coach
The Cove Yogurt & Coffee
Marsha and Steven Clift
Janet and Jim Fotioo
Jamie, Neil and Helen Groat
The Horani Family
Hyden, Miron & Foster, PLLC
Pappas, Alex and Ann Maners
Kelley Commercial
Kemuri
Mama's Gyros Grill
Janet and Philip Miron
Artoun and Magidah Mnatzaganian
Oceans at Arthur's
Dena and Angelo Parker
Party City
Mike and Raeda Alley
The Terrace Mediterranean Kitchen
Radiology Consultants
In Memory of Dr. John Verdaris
Financial Management Inc.
In Memory of Dr. George & Mrs. Marguerite Fotioo

Friend Sponsors

Brown, Rogers & Company, P.A.
Grapevine Wines & Spirits
The Pantry
Orion Capital Partners
Walter Armstrong
The McCrary Family
The Sargent Family
Jamie, Neil and Helen Groat
Brad Cobb
Anonymous