MOM : Oct. 24 Center Kalla mela, Family Sunday ...

Family Sunday was the central theme in church, with Rev. Sam Koshy delivering the sermon. There was brunch after the service. So after rejuvenating,  15 members participated for the follow on meeting.  

We had a few updates : 

1) Center Kalla Mela will be on Nov. 27th Saturday. Will post the full list of activities / competitions soon.

2) Discussed about what we could present for the Christmas programs. 

3) There was also a discussion about some fund raising programs so that we can contribute to the charitable activities of the Sakhyam. 

BTW our offertory collection during the Yuvajana Sakhyam meeting this week was one off the highest we have had ! Those who attended will know why I explicitly mentioned it here :-) For those who did not understand, please come for the next meeting.

Have a nice week ahead.

MOM : Oct 17 - Cyrus Sir

We had a intriguing session today with Cyrus Sir, who is a down to earth person (ex. lawyer) working in the backward regions of Orissa. Well he called on the youth to work as doctors, administrators, nurses, teachers etc. to help those deprived of basic human rights and living in abject poverty.

His speech in church was equally challenging. The youth meeting was a follow on discuss to the sermon in church.

The sermon in church was based on the healing of the paralytic person by Jesus. The paralytic was brought to Jesus by 4 persons. Their faith resulted in the healing of the paralyzed man.There is a difference between being cured and being healed. Healing involves the healing of the heart too. And the four persons here can be looked at, like the community of people who need to help the poor. We must bring in a meaningful change by our faith in the lives of the poor people. He also called upon everyone, to go out of the way, like the 4 persons who broke open the roof of the house, in the parable, to make a change in our society.


Next sunday is the Family Sunday. Do bring your family members too when coming to church and celebrate the Holy Qurbana as a family.

MOM : Oct 10 - Youth Sunday

We celebrated the Youth Sunday on Oct 12. Rev V M Mathew led the church service. The yuvajana sakhyam members played an active role in assisting the achen and other activities in the church.

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 !