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.

Chennai Center Kalamela 2010 Update

By God's grace we were able to conduct the Chennai Center Kalamela 2010 at the St Paul's Marthoma Church, Adyar. Thanks to all the Achens, Chennai Center Office Bearers, judges, participants, Committees, and all 6 parishes who participated. Special thanks to Liba and Zach too for the extensive groundwork before the event actually even started.

We had participation from Tambaram, St Thomas Mount, Avadi, Chetpet, Adayar and Annanagar. Special thanks to these parishes.

OK now let me address our Yuvajana Sakhyam !

I am sure many of you would have had a good learning experience by participating in various events and even in organizing the events. One important learning for me was in "the ability of the individual". Everyone is talented. They know how to solve problems, if given the opportunity, if forced to take the opportunity ! Our events could finish of on time, because each "Host" thought through the problem and made adjustments to ensure the events would finish off ahead of time. We started of an hour late, but finished off well ahead of time, in the process allowing our visiting friends to get to City-Center on time :-)

I guess I will stop the blabbing and let the pictures do the talking.

Thanks to all participants (for events and those who helped organize)

The only practice we had for the Tableu was 10 minutes before the event :-) great work Christo & team !

View the Group Singing by St Paul's Marthoma Yuvajana Sakhyam !

St Paul's Marthoma Church Youth League

Tambaram Team

View the photo album on the church website here.

There are a lot of tidbits missed out. Please post them as comments :-)

ps: If you have a great photo that you think depicts the Kalamela better, please share it in this blog. Post a comment or send an email to "spmcadyar" @"gmail.com" - (without the double quotes)

Marthoma Yuvajana Sakhyam Chennai Center Kalamela 2010

The Marthoma Yuvajana Sakhyam Chennai Center Kala mela 2010  will be held in Adyar St Paul's Marthoma Church on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010.

More details here.

MOM : Nov. 21st

As discussed the Kalamela will be held in our church on Saturday.

You can get the schedule details on our web page.

http://youthleague.spmcadyar.org/p/chennai-center-kalamela-2010-2011.html



Various committee members have been identified.

Host for Various events :
Singing Segment : Robin, Dayana, Deena
One Act Play Segment : Renosh, Biju, Aju
Painting Segment : Sweety, Biju, 1 member from Tambaram
Essay Writing Segment : Anish (Kuruvilla), 1 member from Tambaram

Registration Desk: Sam, Anoop, Cinchu, 2 members from Tambaram
Hospitality / Travel/ Food : Sherin, Rooshan, Cinchu
Food Committee : Biju, Sherin, Rooshan

Lets meet on Friday 5 PM at Church for practice for the group songs. Also the various hosts should make it by then.

Have a great week ahead.