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Night Vigil Mysore - Aug 6 , 2011

The last night vigil of mysore was held at St.Philomena's college chapel on 6th aug 2011. It was a spirit filled night of intercession. We were about 25 that night . We had a praise and worship lead by eldo, music, session on confession by Aldrin (mandya).Fr.Joy from st.philomena's made himself available for our confession during the vigil.Introduction about the movement for the new commers was done by Remya Joby. The Holy Mass was celeberated by Fr.Jijo.

Outreach Child Support - Experience in Raichur

*Sharing form Mejo(Jesus Youth Bangalore on his recent Outreach to Raichur)

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

Just sharing the experience we had while we went for the verification of outreach child support. As you know, it was on short notice , and we started preparation only Saturday evening. I was in the middle of shifting my home to a new one.

We had an initial meeting in the house where Deril, Jaison and Antony is staying and just briefed the project overview and the motive this trip. With a few hours in hand, We(myself and Malcolm) went to buy tickets and got stuck in heavy rain. I felt like, our enemy really got disturbed. The road was just like a river, but we had no time to wait any more, so just proceeded to one internet cafe, to get the printouts of verification forms and address list. We got the printouts and arranged them in correct sets. Finally travel time confirmed in Rajahamsa at 9.30 PM.

We(Deril, Jaison and Antony) started by 8.15 around 1hr late from our planned departure :) Still we reached in time @ majestic,Bangalore to catch Rajahamsa.

@Raichur...

By morning around 7.00 AM we reached @ raichur bus stand, and we started our journey to Jawelgere, that is around 75KM away. We got  great support from Bishop Henry(Bellary diocese) and the parish priests(Fr.Morris and Fr.Basil) of Jawelgere. We reached @ jawelgere parish by around 8.30PM and the priests arranged accommodation and food for us. After the holy mass, we started our local travel in 3 bikes to the interiors of the parish. The locations of each house of the students were really far, and Fr.Morris travelled with us all the way.

Finally we completed the verification of 15 students, just half of the planned number. While reaching the end of the day, we got more attached to the local children there and in the evening we had a really nice time with the children there. So many children were there at parish ground, they sang and danced along with the tune of “Yes lord, Yes lord yes yes lord  :)”. Finally they gave a warm farewell to us.

Again it’s the time of Lords intervention :)

After all these, actually we were really running out of time. Our return bus was at 9.00 PM. We have to catch this bus from Raichur that is around 75KM away from jawelgere. We got bus to raichur only by 7.15 and logically it was for sure, we will not catch the Rajahamsa to bagalore . I was telling to Jaison that, we did our part to our best, now sit and relax; God will make a way to home. I was sure, that our loving God will make a way. Then on the travel to Raichur Antony met an uncle, who is working with KSRTC and through him, he got the phone number of the conductor of the Rajahamsa we were supposed to travel in. He called the conductor and told him, we are on the way can you wait for some time. Then he said like, they can wait up to 1hr if the passengers co-operate. Finally we reached @ raichur around 15 min late, all of them were waiting for us and as soon as we got in and the bus started.

Epilogue:

I had no option to take a half day leave, or being late in office Monday morning. Because, it was critical for me. Deril already had some attendance issues in his college. We were expecting deril will lose one more attendance, and I was thinking of how to tackle my absence in the morning session in office, but HIS grace again helped us in reaching far earlier than we expected and got plenty of time to go to office, class and to our own things....

Some reflections:

1. These are the places, where we have to reach out.

2. Outreach childsupport is just a tool, but we have to reach out there, and have to share with them the culture of fellowship, prayer and all our moral values we are holding.

3. In the name of this project, we are getting an entry into interiors of Karnataka. I welcome every ministry to reach out.

4. It’s the high time to break our comfort zone being in our own JY circles.

Most importantly.

1. We need a big task force to do the jobs related to child support ministry.

2. We need to bring up some JY groups there, because, we need somebody to coordinate things there, other than somebody  travelling from Bangalore for 10hrs.

Thy will be done,

Mejo (Outreach  Child Support Team)

http://www.outreachchildsupport.org/

Jesus Youth Bangalore Newsletter - August 2011

Open publication - Free publishing

Bangalore Servant Leaders Gathering - Please Pray!

Exam preparation program for nurses in Hiriyur

On July 10th 2011 we had a exam preparation program for nurses in Hiriyur. Around 130 nurses were present. Mr. Saji Nettana was the main resource and Mr. Joji was the music resource

New Chickmagaluru core team formed

Praise be to Jesus Christ1

New Chickmagaluru core team formed was formed on July 10, 2011.

Team members are:

1. Jofy Joyson (Leader)

2. Anita Thomas
3. Mintusha Joseph
4. Anju Thomas
5. Chinju Sabu
6. Jomy
7. Ashwini
8. Sr Elsy (Animator)

Please pray for chickmangaluru!

Message - KJYT

Karnataka Servant Leaders Gathering

The Karnataka Servant Leaders Gathering happened on the 2nd and 3rd July in Christ University, Bangalore. We had close to 100 leaders from various zones of Karnataka who came together.

The resources who helped us during the gathering are Msgr.Dennis Prabhu, Alex Njavally, Fr.Joban MCBS, Fr, Jais MSFS, Antony AJ (Coordinator, JYNT), Jose RIT and Subin Jacob. The presence of several senior leaders and elders was a blessing to all those who gathered in the place.

We had a video conference on the first day of the gathering where the former KJYT coordinators (Justin Thayyil, Soji Joseph, Frijo Francis) and the Former Animator (Siju Mathew) took us through the past of Jesus Youth Karnataka and inspired the leaders to grow as a visionary leader.

We had the presentations from the regional ministry teams and the sub regional leaders about the activities of their zone.

We had the reconstitution of the Karnataka Jesus Youth Team during the gathering. The new team was anointed by Fr.Jais MSFS and Fr.Joban MCBS. The new team members are as follows

• Sunny Gudino, Karwar (Coordinator)
• Tijo Tomy, Bangalore (Asst. Coordinator)
• Albert Lobo, Coorg
• Antony Balraj, Mandya
• Hebin HK, Mangalore
• Melba Drago, Dharwad
• Preena Jose, Hassan
• Anto Jacob, Bangalore
• Thomson Mathew, Bangalore
• Jessy MJ, Manipal
• Niju Varghese, Mangalore
• Adv. Joby KR, Mysore (Family Representative)
• Dr. Remya Joby, Mysore (Family Representative)
• Shoy Thomas, Bangalore (Ex-Officio)
• Fr.Joban MCBS (Pastor)
• Sanjai Joseph (Elder)

Jesus Youth Karnataka

It was in the early 90’s that Jesus Youth fellowship groups started to bloom in few places of Karnataka particularly in Bangalore, Coorg and Sullia. A prayer group came into existence in Bangalore by the initiative of a small number of youngsters who came to the city for their higher education and better job prospects. In KVG College, Sullia a prayer group started functioning in the year 1993. At same stage in the time, some Jesus Youth from northern part of Kerala made an effort to build prayer groups in Coorg. In Sullia the first Jesus youth programme happened in 1995. It was in mid nineties the movement slowly started to lay foundation in places like Mangalore, Shimoga, Belthangadi, Puthur, Manipal, Mudbidri etc.

Over the past years the Lord has used many people to build his kingdom through the platform of Jesus youth, in various parts of Karnataka.  Today there are Jesus Youth groups in over 33 places in Karnataka. The presence of Jesus Youth is seen and felt strongly in nursing schools, campuses, schools, parishes and hospitals. The zonal service teams, the prayer group’s or, the core teams coordinate the activities in these areas. Presently, the Jesus Youth has various prayer groups, intercessory groups in various colleges, schools, hospitals, nursing schools and parishes in Karnataka.

Jesus Youth always motivates the youngsters to set a trend of evangelism in their society. We initiate various discipleship training, resource building programs, retreats, outreaches, conventions and night vigils. Through various ministries like the campus ministry, professional’s ministry, nurses ministry, teens ministry, parish ministry, pro-life ministry. The ministry teams, work with an objective towards faith formation of the young peers in their similar life situation. We strive hard to cater the spiritual needs of the young generation and we do our best to contribute to the evangelistic work of the Holy Catholic Church.