Changing the face of the Youth

About Jesus Youth

Jesus Youth is an international Catholic youth movement with a Charismatic spirituality. It had its beginnings in Kerala (India), but is now active in many different countries throughout the world. Jesus Youth is an initiative of young people themselves, who, filled with the Holy Spirit try to reach out to other young people. The strength of the movement is its special focus on a life centred on the Lord Jesus Christ; beginning with an experience of God, nourished by prayer, the Word of God, the sacraments and fellowship, and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with others. Though not an actual community, Jesus Youth is a network of small but vibrant groups of young people. In their own life situations, they strive to give time to the Lord, responding to the challenges of today's world in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Reconstitution of the Jodhpur Service Team

The new service team was elected on the 10th of December 2006. A one day program was kept as a preparation step towards the election of the new team. The name of the program was El-Shaddai 2006. The theme of the program was "Let God Arise" as said by the psalmist in Psalm 68:1.
Ref: http://jyrajasthan.blogspot.com/2006/12/latest-news.html

On the 1st of January the new Service Team met for the first time. It was a gathering focussed on giving away the responsibilities of the diffrent ministries to the newly elected service team.
The theme of the gathering was "You are the salt of the earth and light of the world." Matthew 5:13&14.
The program started with a beautiful time of Praise & Worship led by Ms. Annette, which was followed by a session on how to lead Praise & Worship with a few tips to lead a Prayer Group also by Mr. Vinu George.
With the new tips and inputs provided by Mr. Vinu George, another session of Praise and worship followed to put the newly learnt tips into practice. The Praise and Worship was followed by talk on Role of service Team and diffrent responsibilities of a Srevice Team by Mr. Sanu T Thomas. Mr. Sanu Thomas's talk was followed by a talk on Interpersonal Relationship among the members of the team by Ms. Ancy Peter, so that the team members may effectively communicate with each other.

Then Devasia Uncle, the Jesus Youth elder in Jodhpur came and he shared a few things about how the Service Team has to go among the families. He also shared about what all things are expected of the Service Team and he told about the ideal attitude of a Service Team, ie. the beattitudes for the Service Team.
Then came the long awaited discernment process to give away the diffrent responsibilities to the new Service Team. The discernment process was led by Mr. Vinu George and Ms. Anita Rajpurohit. And thus the meeting ended with a resolution ie. to be the salt and light of the world.

On the first day the New Year, the responsibilities have been handed over to the new Service Team members. And this is the final structure of the Service Team.
The new members and their responsibilities are:

General Coordinator: Abha Tirkey
Music Incharge:
Alok Tirkey
Intercession Incharge: Annette
Outreach Incharge: Sanu T Thomas
Finance Incharge: Sanjith Thomas
St. Pauls Incharge: Rijo
St. Patrics Incharge: Divya
Prayer Group Incharge: Ancy Peter
Ex-officio member: Jeans Varghese
RJYST Representative:
Anita Rajpurohit & Vinu George.