Kallamela Update : 2011

The Chennai Center Kallamela was held in Padi church. A team of 8 participants went from our church. They hired a mini van and started off at 7 AM.

The participants were : Biju, Dayana, Anish, Christo, Jerin, Deeepti, Blessy, Alex, Alen John....

Jerin - Essay Writing - First, Elocution Malayalam - Second, Solo Singing Second.

Dayana Joseph - Essay Writing First

Blessy Ann Joseph Bible Reading Second

Chirsto Jacob - Story Writing Malayalam - First, Poetry Writing Second,

Kuruvilla Mathew Cartooning First

Tableau - Group Event - Second

It was a memorable experience for all. Special thanks to Alex for joining us and giving moral support for the team!

Hope more of our friends will join next year. Have a great week ahead.

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

Chennai Center Yuvajana Sakhyam Meeting on Sat @ St Paul's Adyar

All members are requested to be at the Church on Saturday, Jul 23rd, 9:30 AM to attend the Chennai Center Yuvajana Sakhyam Center Meeting.

This will also be an opportunity to meet other members from the Chennai Center.

Please come prayerfully and be blessed.

July 17 : Songs and Planning for Onam

Today's was a session mainly to plan for the Chennai Center Yuvajana Sakhyam Center Meeting to be held on Jul 23rd at our church.

We practiced some songs and had an introduction to the Onam programs by Christo.

Next week singing will be lead by Nia / Anish and Team.

All members are requested to be at the Church on Saturday. Jul 23rd, 9:30 AM to attend the Chennai Center Yuvajana Sakhyam Center Meeting

July 10 : Rev V. M Mathew on Seeking Him, The Old Testament and some HEATED discussions

This week we had a very interesting discussion and talk by Rev V M Mathew, a student of the M.Th. He talked to us about the importance of The Old Testament.

There were a lot of intriguing details that he shared with us and these will surely help us understand the context of the Bible.

It started off with the call to seek the Lord and that seeking should not be limited by

• convenience
• considerations
• corrupted way of our life

Seeking should involve

• a confrontating Him
• Returning to the Lord - re-turn.
• Submitting to his ways and thoughts

Some of the others points mentioned discussed are mentioned. It went in to the structure of the Old Testament books, plus some interesting facts about organizing the Bible.

• Between 400 BC to Jesus birth, there is no coverage of history in the Bible
• It is very important and interesting to first of all understand the chronology of the Bible. This will help us put things in to perspective.

Those who did not attend, did miss some very interesting views about the Bible and make sure you come every second Sunday to attend the classes organised by Rev. V. Mathew Achen.

MOM: 3rd July 2011

Last week we had two interesting activities in our Sakhyam meeting.

We all learned "The Lord's prayer" in Hindi, which was taught by Tony Varghese.

We also had an interesting Bible Quiz(Topic Related to New Testament ) conducted by Gibuchan.

I hope all of us remember the Lord's prayer Hindi version :-)

Bible Quiz was very interesting as it would help us to understand the theme of each chapter in the New Testament. We had two teams, Team A and Team B which lead by Sherin and Deepti. Gigichan was the official score keeper and ensure fair play:-) Finally Team A won by just "5" points:-). So special thanks to Gibuchan for conducting this programme and looking forward for more ... :-)

See you in church this weekend.