MOM - Onam Accounts Committee Meeting - 2011

The committee meeting of St. Paul's Mar Thoma Yuvajana Sakhyam was held on Sunday (2nd Oct. 2011), immediately after the Yuvajana Sakhyam meeting.

Agenda of the Meeting:

1) Presenting the accounts of the Onam celebration held on 18th Sep, 2011

2) Finalizing the date and the venue for Yuvajana Sakhyam Camp.

3) Discussion about Magazine (Kai - ezhuthu - mazika)

4) Congratulating Kalamela Winners

The meeting was started with prayer by Rev. Gigy Thomas.

Onam accounts:

The Onam accounts was then presented by the treasurer Ms. Dayana Joseph. The details of the onam expenses and income will be updated in our blog. The committee verified and passed the accounts.

As planned earllier, the committee directed the treasurer and secretary to create the new bank account and transfer the settle the money to the account quickly. As part of this, they are to create the FD account for Jossy memorial fund at the earliest. The Jossy Memorial Fund will be maintained by St. Pauls Mar Thoma Yuvajana Sakhyam and the interest of the corpus will be given through the appropriate channel to fund education of a child.

Youth Camp : We decided to have two days camp in our church premises on 14th and 15th January, 2012. Participants from age group 15 and above are welcome to participate. The camp committee will meet separately and plan for the arrangement of the camp.

Kai ezhuthu Magazine:

The committee nominated three people for managing the magazine publication. Following members are nominated by the committee.

1. Kuruvilla Mathew - Release Owner / Publishing / Co-ordination and ensuring timely completion.

2. Content Owner - Christo Jacob George & Sujith M Philip

Finishing date of this magazine is on 31st Jan, 2012.

We also spent few minutes for congratulating Kalamela winners. The trophy and certificate will be provided to the winners on the Youth Sunday(9th OCT, 2011).

The Meeting ended up with closing prayer by Gibu and the benediction by Rev. Gigy Thomas.

Biju

Secretary

Onam Sangamam - 2011

Friends,

We had a very successful Onam celebrations. Thanks for all your participation and support.

The Yuvajana Sakhyam presented a skit along with the choir singing some good songs and the sunday school students chipping in with some great performances with dance and plays.

You can find the photos taken below :

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Yuvajana Sakhyam Onam Sangamam 2011

Onam Sangamam 2011 - Sept. 18, 2011

Onam Sangamam is back.

We will have the Onam Celebrations for the year 2011 at the St Paul's Marthoma Church, Adyar on Sep. 18th 2011.

The special guest for the event is Mr. Ashok of Hindustan Group of institutions. We will also have our below Vicar Rev. Gigy Thomas, Rev. V. M. Mathew and Rev. Joby Thomas Samuel.

We will have a host of activities starting from a Onam song by the choir, skit by the Yuvajana sakhyam and other programs by the Sunday School. This will be followed by the Onam Sadhya!

Please come and participate in the celebration.

Have a great weekend.

- Biju Philip

MOM July 18, Welcome to new members and Session update

This week's Youth League Meeting was an interesting session, thou a bit longer. OK, I would say, today's session actually started of almost as soon as the church concluded :-) We had an active participation by everyone to pull in new members. We had lots of students from Hindustan College and other potential new members to the Youth League. We had atleast 4-5 of the members engaging them.

BTW since this post also goes out to all new visitors, let me take the opportunity to welcome all the visitors to the St Paul's Marthoma Church Adyar (www.spmcadyar.org). To be precise, we have 24 persons newly added to this mailing list today. I know many may be already regular visitors to the church. Do come for the Youth League as it could help mold your lives according to the will of God. That's one part of the goal. It also helps you socialize with people of your own thought process.

We also had 3 coupon books to be sold and it was done quite easily by our most active members :-).

The singing session started a bit late. We had a follow up discussion with Rev Jacob Achen.

We decided we will have a quick re-cap of what we heard in the sermon before we start the discussion. Members please remember we have to make the session interactive, hence try to collect some points to share and think of questions for the speaker during the sermon itself. Lets make every minute we spend count.

The main theme of the sermon in church was love as a common denominator. It ended of with a true story about the Rickshaw Puller and a small girl, that reminded what charity really is.

Some of the below points were asked during the youth meeting.

The first was the significance of turning the other cheek when one of it was slapped. A point was highlighted that it does not mean submission to wrong doing.

The story of the Rickshaw Puller was touching as it showed what we consider charity. It highlighted the fact that we need to give our time and effort for others. Money alone is not sufficient. Giving money out of abundance is not charity. Quality over quantity matters. I would leave it to one of the members to add a comment with the details of the story in this blog.

I am sure there were other points discussed, I hope other members would chime in.

Onam Celebrations:
We will have our Onam Celebrations along with the Church Harvest Festival on Sept 4 & 5. Our Thirumeni, Rt. Rev. Chrysostom Marthoma Vellia Metropolitan will attend and grace the occassion. We plan to have some games and activities organised during that weekend.
Football Tournament - MTC Futsal :
We will also participate in the football tournament conducted by the Chennai Center Youth League to be help on 7 & 8th August at the YMCA Grounds, Nandanam. We will get back with the exact times for the matches by end of the week.

We also decided to opt out of the Shuttle Tournament organised by the Christian Sports League.

BTW if you missed the Jul 11th session, don't miss to read the blog post titled Confessional Prayer of the Marthoma Church.

Hope to see those who did not attend today, next week.

Have a great week ahead.