Jesus youth Mumbai Mission Team is a great dream on this year. As a stepping stone to fulfilling this dream our friends visited some of the mission centers of Maharashtra on 11th Nov., 22nd Dec 2001 & ,26 - 27th Jan. 2002. Our main plan was to visit the parishes and meet and help the members /youth those who attended our Cultural Exchange Program in Kerala in October 2001, as a part of the Jesus Youth Family Gathering. Right from the beginning of our mission, we could feel that the Lord has leading us on all our ways.
On 11th Nov. 2001, we had visited the youth of Vasai Diocese who had attended the Program. The time we see them observing their thirst for Jeus and the Word of God. We had conducted a one-day program on 22nd Dec. 2001 for them. The response to the Program was great. The 8 youth who had attended our family gathering have started 10 prayer groups now. Every day evening they visit the houses and share their experiences and at the end they pray in one house. The mission in-charge takes these youngsters to different villages by his-own vechile. Also they have organised some programmes in the Diocesan level. Last month they did the arrangements to take 60 people to attend the retreat at Tabor Ashram, Kalyan. Now they take a second batch of 120 people for the retreat. Friends, here we have to think how much we were doing for our neighbours, our work place or where were we are as we got this much training and love of him. To learn from this go and proclaim the good news. On 24th of this month we are again conducting a one-day program In this January two of our friends visited Amravathy and Nagapur mission centres also. From the reception we got at Amaravathi, we could really feel that the Lord had arranged everything for us. Eventhough the Parish Priest didn't know us but still he did everything possible to make us comfortable. If we were received with such an enthusiasm and love, at the parishes, it is only because of the change in the life and by the activities of the youth who attended our Oct. program. Whatever they gained from the program - the word of god and the love the made their lives alive- they gave it in their parishes in the form of visiting the houses, sharing their experiences and also organising various prayer services and programmes in their own parishes and also by being the messages of love to the neighboring parishes. The seminarians at Nagpur Seminary who are also an ex-Jesus Youth, expressed their wish to visit all the villages of Maharashtra and to have a combined effort with Jesus Youth- Mumbai, to spread the message of love of Jesus. If Jesus Youth can take up this challenge tomorrow, it would be the most precious gift that Jesus Youth can render towards the evangelization of India at large. So dear friends we have once again request you to all your prayer support for all our activities. Now we had two intercession groups - every Wednesday and Saturday. Apart of this we had mainly two gatherings in every month ; On every IIIrd Sunday - Malayalam ( 9.30AM to 2.30 PM) On every IVth Sunday - English ( 11 AM to 4.30 PM) lots of love and prayers Sojan K. J. ===== MUMBAI ,INDIA PHONE (R) 91 - 22 - 884 3879 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
