MOM : Jan 2nd : Next week resolutions for 2011

The first session was dedicated for planning for the activities for 2011. Hopefully we will be able to implement a few of those planned.

Next week the members will share the resolutions for 2011 ! Everyone will be given an opportunity to talk. addiyyum, eddiyum ellathu, paranjal mathi. You can summarize in 30 seconds !

We will also be having a one day outing on Jan 26th Wednesday, a public holiday to Scripture Union Center on ECR, Chennai.

We are also planning to go for the Maramon Convention 2011. Planning to book tickets on Sunday after the Sakhyam meeting this week. Trip is planned for Feb 18 from here and return from Kerala on Feb 20th Sunday. Those interested please plan and bring Rs 700 towards booking train tickets. Or you could book it yourself for Chenganuur or Tiruvalla.

See you next week.

Happy New Year 2011

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year ! Let 2011 be year when we get closer to our Lord.

By God's grace we had our first Cottage Fellowship coinciding with the new year. We had Rev K. C. George leading the session with his thought provoking message. Before the short message, Achen asked every member to share their thoughts about how God blessed them this year. We had 100% participation for this with all members sharing their experiences.

Special thanks to Biju for initiating the fellowship and persisting so that the first one itself got away as planned. We had around 15 members participating.

Happy New Year .....




ps: sorry Achen & Bibin was missed out in the photograph

Dec 26,th Stand-In Meeting !

On Dec 26th, we had a good number of Sakhyam members present in church. But we decided to just only a stand-out meeting.... we dispersed after the tea fellowship :-)

Dec 19 : Devotional Talk

Today we actually went back to the basics after quite a few meetings. The last weekly meetings were more of practice for our carols, Kalla mela etc.. 

We had a thought provoking message from Daiju. It was very much needed as we are celebrating Christmas and also entering in to the new year

The gist of the message was the need for  healing which leads to a sound body, mind and soul. For this we need to bring around a "relative" change for the better in  all our actions. We can rely on HIM for our solace. For some that is facilitated  by being in the right place.  Be it your native home in Kerala, friends, family, church or hopefully the weekly Yuvajana Sakhyam meetings :-)

I would summarize it as HCF - Heal, change and fellowship / friends / community.

Please post any questions you have. Daiju has agreed to be active in our blogs or mailing list. He will also ask questions or suggestions to make our group more active.

We also proposed to have our first cottage fellowship on Saturday, 4 PM, Jan 1st at the residence of Gibu (me).

Wishing everyone a great Christmas season ahead. 

MOM : Dec 12, just a stand-in meeting :-)

Dec 12, we really did not have a meeting inside church. Being the day after the Christmas Carols, the strength of the congregation was low. There were just five of us for the Sakhyam. We just had a stand-in meeting outside the church. Basically chaaya kudichoonddu samsarichu.... sold some Carols CDs ..... 

MOM : Dec 5th : Practice for the YL Carols' slot

Today's session was mainly a practice session for our Church Christmas Carols.

We will be singing a beautiful song, selected by Gladwin. Hope you got the the lyrics of the song along with the link to the mp3 file (thanks to Jerry and Ruby for mp3 and lyrics).

Please get yourself accustomed, and join the Yuvajana Sakhyam while singing.

We will also have a practice session at 4:45 PM on Saturday, just before the Carols' start.

Reminder : Our Christmas Carols will be on Saturday Dec 11th @ 6:00 PM. It will followed by dinner so that's another reason you MUST make it :-).

Enjoy the wonderful Christmas season ahead.

MOM : Nov. 28th : choir, cottage fellowship, Christmas Program

We had a special session today, after the fun filled kalamela 2010 the previous day.

We had a fairly good number of members with three new members coming in. A warm welcome to Renz, Doanna and Jesmine.

We discussed quite a few things :

a) Introduction of Cottage Fellowship. Please post your comments about what is an appropriate time and day of the week.
b) Introduce a Youth League Choir so that we can participate more proactively in competitions and church service.
c) Time to practice for Christmas program. We need to present a 3-5 minute event during the Carol service.

Suggestion was made to ensure all members participate in the activities of the Yuvajana Sakhyam by way of conducting activities, games etc so that next year we are better prepared.


We had a repeat telecast :-) of the mimicry by Christo.

Other members, try to present your activity (like poetry etc..) in the next meeting.

See you in church later this week.