Hello Friends, I am here in Singapore, reached here yesterday and Dexon was there at the Airport, met the elder prayer group leaders of the place in the evening. Today there was a one-day meet of the Jesus Youth first line group from 9.30 to 4.30. After that all the eleven members of the JY Singapore core team met at Tony and Manju's house and we had a nice time. Some of them are staying here over night. I should finish the mail and continue my chat with them.
Thailand meeting was very interesting and fruitful. I had received quite a number of prayer offers from Joynet for my trip. Thank you very much. This Asian Bishops' meeting was organised by FABC Communication office for Bishops and the theme was "E-generation. The Communication of Young People in Asia. A Concern of the Church." About 60 were there with most of them Bishops and some communication experts. I was there only for two days, it must have ended this afternoon. The time I spent with the Bishops was extremely useful for me personally and also for Jesus Youth. After the first talk itself Fr. Henry Disouza from Delhi got up to say that when you think of youth Jesus Youth movement deserves special mention. He did not know that I was there. Soon after that the new Jabua Bishop, Bp. Chacko came to greet me. We were meeting for the first time and he had high praises for JY. >From Hong Kong, other than the Bishop, there was the youth in charge of the office of >CCC (the Asian Christian Coordination Council, the counter part of FABC in Asia). He >was so eager from the beginning to hear about Jesus Youth. We had much sharing. My first presentation to the Bishops (the chairman of the session was the Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan, a very nice bishop) was entitled "Experiences of a Youth Leader" and I spoke mainly on the Characteristics of Jesus Youth. It was so well received. All the Indian Bishops were so very happy. Archbishop of Agra (Santhosh, Alexy, Shiny - are you all listening) immediately came up to tell me 'I had some very serious questions about Jesus Youth and after your talk all that is cleared'. A Phillipines Bishop was much captivated by my point about 'continuity' in JY. Archbishop Abraham Viruthukulangara was constantly taking of JY everywhere. A Malasian Bishop was so eager to do something in his country like JY. Two South Korean, editors of two Catholic newspapers had a tough time interviewing me with their broken English and they want JY there in Korea! In short, the Lord was doing something unique there at Pattaya, Thailand. My second session, the very last input for the Bishops, was about 'The Evangelization Dimension'. I could get time to consolidate my thoughts from the first session. I had only half an hour more there before I came away to Bangkok to be with my friend Elish (to those who know Elish, our trainer behind JY skits, he is in a university in Bangkok and he sends his regards to JY friends). But in that little time the Indian Bishops gathered around me to ask about the possibility of more official approval from the Bishops for JY. We were also discussing about our dream of something like a regularised community for the rooted ones in JY with the knowledge and approval of the Bishops. I go back to Cochin tomorrow night. There is one more half day session for general Jesus Youth here in Singapre till noon tomorrow. Thanks once again for all your prayers. Eddy/Cochin/India **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join To get a standard help message on the list services send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
