2012

TEENS

One Day Program at Notre Dame Academy

The JY Bangalore Teens Ministry conducted a one day program at Notre Dame Academy School, Choodasandra on 12th February 2012 for a group of 32 students from Classes IV and V, at the request of School Principal, Sr.Manisha.  The program consisted of music, activities, sessions and prayers. The children along with their class teachers liked it thoroughly and were especially touched by a testimony shared by Meetu.

Salve 2012

A 3 day Friendship with Jesus program – Salve 2012 was conducted by the Teens Ministry at Carmel 

Convent School, Banerghatta road for a group of 30 children from various parts of Bangalore, ranging from Classes VIII, IX, X and XI.  Many of them had attended our previous summer camps.  The participants were blessed to have the presence of Sr.Josna, the Principal of Carmel Convent School, all through the program.  Fr. Antony Mahendran, Asst Parish Priest of Christha Prabhalaya Ephiphany Church and Fr. Varghese, National Pastor of JY celebrated the Holy Mass. Vinu (JY Teens National Team member) and Bangalore Teens Ministry members coordinated the program.  The program consisted of music, prayers, sessions, activities, sharings and Eucharistic Adoration.  As part of outreach, a visit was organized to Swanthana, a home for mentally/physically challenged run by the St. Camillus Sisters, on Sarjapur Road.  The children and the volunteers treasured the time spent there as one of the most memorable moments of their lives.

Other teens programs

·         Teens program at St. Francis Xavier Church

·         RTC School program

·         Teens program at Udayanagar parish

·         Salve followup gatherings

·         Monthly gatherings after national teens ministry gathering

CAMPUS

Growth Retreat 

The campus ministry was blessed with a wonderful opportunity to prepare for the lent season through the Campus retreat.  The growth retreat for the campuses of Bangalore from 18th - 20th February 2012 was led by Br Elvis Kottooran and team.  The name given for the retreat was “JERMIAS”.  Around 60 students from various campuses of Bangalore attended this retreat.  The venue was Christ University.

MasterLife

MasterLife is a formation programme for a span of 3 months.  This programme started from 3rd week of December.  C C Joseph was the main resource.  24  young people from different colleges in Bangalore met on every Thursday from 5 - 8 pm in Christ University.

Campus LTP

Bangalore Campus Ministry was blessed to begin the JESUS & ME Leadership Training Program on the Day of Pentecost, 27th May 2012 in Holy Trinity Ashram. The training program saw the participation of a vibrant group of 42 youngsters from various colleges of the city, belonging to an age group of 16 to 22. Fr. Bitaju, Fr. Vinoy, Alex Njavally, C C Joseph, Dony Peter, Jose Sebastian, Jacob Jose and Prajwal Pinto were the main resources and they covered a wide range of topics like Holy Spirit, Relationship, The Holy Bible, Evangelization etc. The highlight of this training program was the opportunity to share Jesus in public places like Malls and Zoo. They also shared their personal testimonies with each other and to the outside 

world. JESUS & ME LTP came to an end on the 3rd June 2012.

Soul Connect

Campus ministry conducted ‘Soul Connect’ at Christ University on 22nd July 2012. Around 1000 students from different campuses of Bangalore attended this worship evening. The 3 hour program was filled with Praise and Worship, Testimony, Session and Audio Visual Presentation.

NURSES

Retreat at St. John’s College of Nursing

A retreat for the students of St. John’s College of Nursing was conducted from the 16th - 18th February 2012.  Around 500 students of the college attended this retreat.  The main resources were Fr Varghese, Dony Peter, Sanjay Joseph, Alex Njavally and Diana Shibu.  Fr Joy, Fr Tomy and Fr Francis were also present to help with spiritual guidance, adoration and celebration of Holy Mass. There were sessions on the Jesus Youth Movement and Prolife.  Confession was arranged for all participants on the second day.  Gifted counsellors were present for counselling those in need.  After the anointing session on the last day, the music ministry led the participants into an hour of music show and sharing.  The retreat opened up the college for further Jesus Youth activities.  A one year formation program for the students was initiated after the retreat.

Worship Evenings @ St. John’s

Worship evenings were conducted in the St. John’s College of Nursing after the  college retreat.

Yes Lord

R. R. College one day program “YES LORD” happened on June 24^th. 150 students from the same college participated.

Maranatha

Padmasree collage one day programme “MARANATHA” happened on July 8th

Rise and Shine

K. R. Puram Area progamme - ‘RISE & SHINE” was happened on November 11th.

Rejoice - Third Sunday Program

This is conducted on every 3rd Sunday of the month in Christ School. The main aim of this programme is the entry of freshers to JY.

Nurses Reunion

Nurses Reunion happened on December 2nd in Christ School. Around 30 past and present leaders gathered to discuss the present situation of ministry and plans.

Pioneer 2013

Nurses Ministry started a formation program titled Pioneer – 2013. There will be monthly gathering where a selected group of members will be attending systematic formation and leadership modules.

Others 

11 leaders from Nurses Ministry attended History Makers-2012, Regional Level Leadership Training Program, and took mission commitments in different parts of Karnataka.

·         5 nurses from Bangalore attended Mission Nurses training program. They took commitment after the training and were placed in different parts of India.

PROFESSIONALS

Sunday Group Anniversary

Sunday Professionals Prayer group celebrated its 6th anniversary in Jan 2012.  The celebrations included adoration, Holy Mass and fellowship.

Sarjapur Group Outreaches

Sarjapur prayer group at Wipro celebrated its 1st Anniversary with Thanksgiving mass and cake cutting with the destitute women at Asha Bhavan, near Carmelaram.  The group has been active with their outreaches.  Many non Catholics from Wipro also accompanied and supported these outreaches.  The group had earlier visited Swanthana care home, near Carmelaram where more than 45 mentally and physically disabled children are taken care of.  The group helped them by contributing funds, sweets and other necessary items required for the institution.  In the month of April prayer group visited the slum labor camp, near Kanelli where more than 500 families stays together.  Members played with children and also promised to support their education.  The plan is to give computer education to the teachers over there during weekends.

Theology of the Body Seminar

A 2 days seminar on John Paul’s teachings “Theology of the Body” was conducted during the month of December. Around 40 Jesus Youths participated in this seminar.

Professionals Intercession Night Vigil

Whitefield prayer group organised an intercession Night Vigil.

PROLIFE

Prolife Night Vigil

Bangalore Prolife team along with the Night Vigil team (RRC) led the Prolife Night Vigil on 24th March 2012 to mark the World Prolife Day which falls on March 25th. The main resource person for the event was Gourish Naik (a Hindu convert Catholic, now known as Mattias), an active prolifer from Human Life Goa.  Around 75 people participated in the Prolife Night Vigil.

Prolife Resource Training Program

Resource Training Program (RTP) for Prolife was held from 23rd - 25th March 2012 at Upasana.   The training constituted of one day retreat and two days training on different aspects of Prolife.  The training helped the participants identify and understand the relevance of making people aware of the fact that being a Christian and a Catholic is an express call to stand for the cause of life, and that the Prolife ministry was formed with this purpose.  The resources for the Prolife training were Br. Christopher Correa, a full time missionary from Bangalore, Dr. Finto a Gynecologist, working in Kerala and part of the National Prolife team and Dr. Abraham Jacob, a doctor from Kerala, who has been actively involved in spreading Prolife messages, for many years.  There were 45 participants for the program and the program received excellent feedback from the participants.

Corporate Exhibition

On account of the world Health and Safety day celebration at work, the Bangalore ProLife team received an invitation to conduct an exhibition at a garment factory of Raymonds.  Ministry conducted a half day exhibition for around 2000 women employees and a one hour session for their leaders on 30th April 2012.  Manjula Joy, who is an active prolifer/preacher was the main resource for the sessions.  In a way this was one of our deepest prayers answered, since most of the out of wedlock pregnancies that the ministry handled during 2008-2009 were of women who worked at different garment factories in Karnataka.

Life Saving Mission

41 babies saved from abortion, till now among which 9 babies including a triplet in the year 2012.

Other initiatives 

• 20^th Mar 2012 - St. Josephs Engineering College Mangalore for college students.
• 30^th Apr 2012 - Garment factory of Raymonds, Doddballapur for the women employees as part of World Health and Safety Day Celebrations.
• 10^th and 11^th Aug 2012 - St. Philomenas College of Nursing Mysore.
• 29^th and 30^th Sep 2012 - Most Holy Redeemer Church, Belthangady for  Karnataka Regional Youth Convention ‘Yuvajanotsava-2012’ conducted by Jesus Youth Karnataka.
• 27^th and 28^th Oct 2012 - St. Norbert Church Kasavanahally, Bangalore as part of Parish day celebrations.
• 10^th Nov 2012 - Infant Jesus Church Sirsi, North Karnataka as part of Parish feast.
• 21^st Nov 2012 - Sacred Heart Church, Richmond Road, Bangalore as part of Parish day celebrations.
• 21^st Nov 2012 - St. Johns Medical College Bangalore for ‘Medical Expo-2012’.
• 25^th Nov - Our Lady of Sacred Heart Church, Bellandur, Bangalore as part of church FETE day.

INTERCESSION

Intercession Month

Intercession Retreat

FAMILY

Passionately Yours - Growth Retreat - Apr 2012
The 4 day growth retreat for the families was conducted at ‘Snehadaan- Carmelaram’. It was an English retreat led by Bro. Elvis Kootoran and his team. We had also Bro. Alex Njavallil taking the session on the final day. The retreat was mostly for the families who had attended the initial retreat and also for those families who were already a part of other family prayer groups. The attendees returned home deeply convinced about the need to reform their lives and to renew their commitment to the vocation of married life. They also discussed the need for a parallel system to educate their children and have setup a team to explore the different possibilities.

One Day Gathering of JY Families  - July 2012

There were around 30 families in this event. The program started out @ 2:30 PM with a blessed time of Praise and Worship followed by an Ice breaker. This was followed by a sharing by Jose Chetan about the importance of couples group in the context of the Church in Bangalore. This very informative session was followed by an equally interesting panel discussion which answered various questions on Family life, Pro Life, Challenges in Family & Professional life, raising kids etc. There was also adoration, which was followed by Holy Mass celebrated by Fr Xavier Manavath.

Marian Eve

We all love the month of October as it is dedicated to our lady of the Rosary; we never miss a chance to tell her how much we love her for being our Mother. So, it is with great joy in our hearts that the Jesus Youth Family Ministry celebrated the Marian Evening on October 27th at Maria Bhavan. We had a session on Mother Mary followed by "Candlelight Rosary Procession",

Family Ministry Evening

We had an evening of JY Families in Bangalore. Around 30 Families participated in the program which included Adoration, Holy Mass and Group Discussions. There was also a sharing session for ladies by Beena Chechi on Angels Army and the starting of Angel Angel’s Ministry in Bangalore.

Passionately Yours  - Couples Retreat – Nov 2012

It was a wonderful weekend with 30 Families in Bangalore attending PassionatelyYour’s – A JY retreat for Families. Bro. Elvis Koottoran and his team led the retreat. It was a 3 Day Program @ The PassionistJyothirBhavan ,Carmelaram.

The retreat started off with the session on Christian Life and moved into various areas of Family Life, Kids, Spirituality, Sins, and Witnessing etc.

We could experience the Grace flowing all across the venue and I am sure 2 Nights of Continuous Adoration at the Beautiful Chapel in Passionist had its great power. We had The Blessed Sacrament exposed all throughout the Night for the 2 Days of retreat and beautifully see people taking turns to sit in front of the Sacrament and Pray for the Families attending the retreat.

We had around 25 + kids at the Venue. Commendable effort was put in From Teen’s Ministry for looking after these kids. We also had arranged special Fun Zone for the Kids. But it was not all fun for the kids, they also attended small sessions on God’s Love, Watched movies of Saints, did lots of coloring works &learned action songs.

All the participating families felt the need for sustaining the “Spiritual Energy” that they received during the last 3 days. This motivated them to come and create 4 new Family Prayer Groups in different parts of the City. They are

·         Sarjapur-HSR-Koramangala Area ( 5 Families)

·         K.R puram - Mahadevpura Area (8 Families)

·         Marthahalli - Whitefield Area (3 Families)

·         Electronic City Area (4 Families)

Angels Army Intercession

An intercession team comprising of ladies has been formed. Every day they recite a rosary for a special intention.

OUTREACH CHILD SUPPORT

House Visits

We visited about 10 parishes from different parts of Bangalore, met the parish priests, spoke to them about the project and informed them that applications are open. We got a warm response from the parishes and received close to 250 applications from Bangalore. Volunteers visited these families and did the verification of all the applications. We finished off all the verifications from Bangalore except about 15 for which we were not able to trace the addresses.

Outreach Child Support Stalls

We put up the OCS stalls during various programs in Bangalore. Outreach stalls were put for Recommitment Day program, Soul connect and during retreats. Through the stalls, we were able to spread awareness about outreach and to find new volunteers and sponsors. We also put up a stall and had a presentation during Carnival with Jesus program.

Coorg Outreach

We had an outreach to Coorg, during which we met Jesus Youth leaders from Coorg and interacted with them. Team had a time of fellowship building over there. Various team building activities were also organised. This outreach helped the team members to know more about each other. We had a sharing session in which team members shared their dreams about the project.

Christmas Celebrations

We celebrated December as Outreach month all over Karnataka. During this outreach month we visited the families of children whom we are supporting and spend time with them. We also organised X’mas celebration programs in Begur and TC Palya for the beneficiary children. In Begur about 18 children attended the program, while in TC Palya about 23 children came along with their parents. We had a great time celebrating the X’mas with them. Games were organised for the children and we taught them Carol songs. This was followed by cake cutting. We gave umbrella as Christmas gift to all the beneficiaries from Bangalore.

We performed a skit about outreach child support during the Jesus Youth x’mas celebration. One of the main intentions of the Outreach month celebration was to reach out to the various ministries and prayer groups and to provide them a new platform of service through Outreach child Support. We reached out to various prayer groups like professional, nurses, campus and families and spoke about Outreach Child Support project.

Medical and Financial Assistance

We provided medical help and financial assistance for the struggling beneficiary families. We went to the hospital along with the family and helped them in arranging for consultation and also by clearing their medical expenses.

GENERAL RETREATS

Revive Retreats

• Around 250 people attended the English Revive Youth retreat that was conducted in RRC from 24th - 26th February 2012.  The resource for the retreat was Br Edmund and his team from Goa.  
•  Revive growth retreat conducted from 27th - 29th April 2012 was attended by around 60 people.  Br Christopher Correa and team from Bangalore led the retreat.  
• Around 45 Jesus Youths attended the Revive Growth Retreat conducted in the month of October.
• The Intercession Retreat conducted during the month of November was attended by 40.

Nirave Retreat

·         Around 50 people attended the Nirave retreat in Malayalam conducted during the month of February.

OTHERS

Karnataka Regional Youth Convention

Around 30 youth from Bangalore participated in the Karnataka Regional Youth Convention -2012 @ Belthangady on 31^st Sep 2012.

YOUCAT
As an effort to promote YOUCAT, Jesus Youth Bangalore with the support of ATC made arrangements to make YOUCAT books available at a reduced price in different parts of India. Approximately 1500 YOUCATs were sold through this initiative.

Cleaning at RRC
Jesus Youth volunteers actively took part in cleaning the Renewal Retreat Centre on 21st April 2012. We cleaned the accommodation spaces and the main retreat hall.  28 people were part of this activity.

YULETIDE -2012: Christmas Gathering and Faith Quiz

“YULETIDE -2012”, the Jesus Youth family gathering was organized at seminar hall of Christ University here on Sunday December 9.  This was a colourful evening with the participation of lots of Youth, Parents, Kids & religious. The venue was all decorated with balloons, Christmas tree and volunteers running around in’ Red Santa Caps’

There were around 200 participants from various JY ministries in Bangalore. It was also a time for all the Jesus Youth to come together to celebrate the joy and excitement of the Christmas season.

It was a fun filled evening with lots of music, games, mime shows, skit and dances. There was also an ‘Year of Faith Quiz’ organized as a part of Christmas Celebration. Participants from all the ministries battled for the ‘Year of Faith - Champion’ prize which was ultimately won by the Professional Ministry Team. The Christmas message by Fr. Joy Inchody focused on the importance of ‘Downward Journey’.

The holy mass at the venue was celebrated by Fr. Xavier Manavath. The program ended with a delicious dinner. There was a sale of Yummy Christmas Cakes at the Venue as a part of Fund Raising for the ‘Year of Faith Conference’.

Night Vigil Anniversary
10th anniversary of the Youth Night Vigil was conducted on 25^th August 2012 @ RRC.

Recommitment Day

Recommitment day gathering on the day of Pentecost, 27thMay 2012 was a big blessing. Nearly 450 people came together at DVK hall to pray for a greater anointing of the Holy Spirit. There was Rosary, JY Prayer, Praise and Worship, Sessions and Sharing during the morning session. Holy Mass was celebrated by Fr. Divia Paul, Youth Director of Archdiocese of Bangalore and concelebrated by Fr. Joy Inchody in the afternoon. After the Holy Mass, the re-commitment prayer was led by Fr Joy. All ministry core teams were anointed and priests also prayed for special anointing by laying hands on all the participants. Intercession before the Blessed Sacrament that started on the previous day morning continued till the end of the gathering.

Monthly Common Ministry Gathering

Representatives from all ministries come together for 3 hours during the 4^th Sunday of every month at Upasana for time of prayer, fellowship and ministry sharing and updates.

Be his anointed servants called for healing……

A one day gathering for the Medical Students and Doctors in Bangalore was held on the 19th of Jan 2012 at St. Thomas Forane Church. This was an initiative of Jesus Youth Doctors Network Bangalore. The gathering was attended by around 25 Medical Students and Doctors from St John’s Medical College, Bangalore Medical College and Dr Ambedkar Medical College. The gathering started at about 9.30am and concluded by 6.00pm. The sessions were handled by Vijay Sebastian and Alex Njavally. A short post lunch video session focused on giving the essence of Christian values. There was also a panel sharing coordinated by Joemon Varghese. Dr. Sudeep, Dr. Brigit, Dr. Martis, Dr. Joseph and Dr. Mary were part of the panel. The gathering concluded with preparation for adoration, followed by adoration lead by Fr Rajeev. There was Intercession before the Blessed Sacrament all throughout the gathering in a small chapel beside the hall. The guidance, support and motivation of Fr Thomas Kallukulam (Parish priest of St. Thomas Church and previous Jesus Youth Bangalore Animator) were present throughout.