MOM: Sept 26, 2010

We had a fun filled session today.

We started off with the Minutes of the Committee Meeting held on Sept. 25. The accounts of the Onam programs were also presented and passsed.

This was followed by dumb charades. The gathering was divided in to 2 teams. Each team had to ask one of their representatives to act out a character, like St Thomas, St. Stephen etc, while the rest guessed the character.

It was easier than expected as almost every team guessed all their characters ! All well versed in the Bible. It also shows -why we had a lot of accolades for the skit presented in the Onam Celebrations :-)

Important Note : Oct. 2nd Week - Oct 10th Sunday will be the Youth Sunday. Please make sure all attend it and be blessed. Rev. V. M. Mathew achen will lead the worship service and retreat program.

BTW do not forget to post your comments in the Onam Program blogs, ....  

We had 2 members celebrating their birthdays in our group this week.  21st was Biju's and Monday 27th,  was Kuruvillla's birthday. I will try not to be biased and try to get everyone's birthday updated here (ofcourse minus the year :-)  ).  

Until next week.... 

MOM : Committee Meeting Held on Sept 25, 2010

The below are the list of items discussed during the Committee Meeting.

1) Youth Sunday will be held on Oct 10, 2010. Rev. V. M. Mathew will be the chief guest. All activities during worship service will be conducted by the Yuvajana Sakhyam Members. The meeting will be followed by lunch.

2) Audited Accounts for the Onam Program was presented by Cinchu and passed. Details attached.

3) It was decided to create a Josy Memorial Fund aimed at charity works and in memory of Late Mr. Josy who was an active member of the church and Youth League for 3 years. A minimum corpus of Rs 60,000 will be created and the interest of the same will be used for sponsoring a student via the SPMC Adyar Charitable Society. Approx. Rs 5000 per Year has to be generated for this purpose. The remaining collections made will be used towards charitable activities on a need basis.

4) We will have the Center Kalla Mela at our parish in the second week of November. We need to organize a fund raising program for the same. We plan to do a bookmarks, Christmas card sale etc during that time.

5) One day outing: We plan to have one on Jan 26, 2010.

Other items mentioned are

* Shift the account from the previous members to the new members.

* Purchase a cup board

* Print a Yuvajana Sakhyam Letter Pad

Onam Sangamam 2010: Great Team Work !

Onam Sangamam 2010: Great Team Work !

I think the title summarizes our Onam Programs for 2010. First of all thank God for His grace all throughout the program.

This is going to be a very short post. A detailed one may follow with more snaps.


The below photograph summarizes the spirit of participation and participants.



It was team work all the way. Lots of effort were put into direction, production, editing, implementation, practicing of the various programs, buying stuff, pookalam, selling coupons, etc. I am sure everyone enjoyed it to the fullest !


Thanks to all members of the Yuvajana Sakhyam and organizations like Sunday School, Choir etc. for their timely participation.

I am posting just a few photographs now, as there are 180+ to sort through. Will go through it and upload relevant ones later. Please post comments on the photos / events in the whole program so that it refreshes our memories !

More snaps below ..............








































above is - "the directors special"

... there are only videos for the British scene. ...
















Have a great week ahead.

- Gibu

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Onam Sangamam 2010 - Sept 5th, 2010

All are welcome for the Onam Celebrations at the St. Paul Marthoma Church on Sept 5th, 20

Yuvajana Sakhyam Members, please make it a point to attend.

All members can come for the singing and other practice session on Saturday at 4 PM at church.

Also all are welcome on stage for singing the Yuvajana Sakhyam Onam Song.

There will be a skit with lots of cultural programs, games and ofcourse Onam Sadhya !

Hope to see you all !

M.O.M : August 15th : Independence Day

It was Aug 15th - and the Yuvajana Sakhyam ensured the Church had enough pointers of celebrating the Independence Day. There were flags all over the church ! The Choir too sang a special number during the offertory. The service ended by singing the national anthem. Could not get any snaps yet. Will post once we have it.

The Yuvajana Sakhyam meeting went well with the main activity being practicing for the Onam celebrations. Most participants of the skit have been selected. The group song too is coming out well. Those who could not come in last week, do come in this week.

BTW the Thiruvathira troupe lead by Cinchu will be practicing today Saturday : Aug 21 at 3 PM in Church.

Wishing you all a Happy Onam !

Futsal : Football Tournament Update

Well we had a great start with participation from many members of the St Pauls Marthoma Church Youth League. We had a 7 member football team. Everyone gathered at 7:30 AM and we headed to the YMCA Grounds at Nandanam. Our match was at 10 AM and we were all charged up.

SMS from Gladwin :
Idivettu Biju
Minnal Kuruvilla
Vadivaal Christo
Kalari Gibu
Veidikattu Joseph
Patallum Rinosh
Vettukathi Vineeth ..... to be replied at the bottom....

The teams were good. One tidbit. There was one international team with 3 guys from Africa and another 2 girls from Australia (not sure).. They represented Powerhouse A Team and won their match 2-0.

Our matches got started at 10:10 AM. It got over just in time for us get back for the Onam practice sessions. Oh.. btw the score line was 2-0.

Special thanks to Regi and Family for turning up. We also had another visitor Bharath for encouragement.


Thanks to all the participants and see you in church tomorrow. Checkout more snaps below.

SMS From Biju :
Yenthokke pukilayirunnu !
Avasanam Pavanai Shavamai :-)

Aug 1 : Happy Friendship Day !

First Sunday of August is celebrated as Friendship Day ! So Happy Friendship day ! However did you know it is mainly celebrated only in India, and a few other countries. ....

Even today we had 2 new members. A warm welcome to them.

Today's meeting was all about planning for the Onam celebrations. It was very interactive. Those who missed it, please join us next week. We have formed 3 committees.

• Program Committee
• Finance Committee
• Food Committee

I am under strict orders to reveal nothing more than that, as far as the events are:-) So join us next week to know more.

BTW we did have a good brunch sale conducted by the Sevika Sangam before the meeting, so there was even more energy this time.

Well as if that was not enough, some of the YL members re-grouped for a football practice session. Next saturday, 8AM (unconfirmed time) we will have our matches at YMCA grounds, Nandanam. Hope we will have some crowd to cheer the team.