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.
It was a three day retreat for the teenagers & youth of Ambapada, a village 42 km away from Banswara. The retreat was organized by Jesus Youth Udaipur, from 26th January to 28th January. The Program was Co-ordinated by Miss Sheeba Scaria. About 92 youth from ambapada parish participated in this retreat. Along with 9 volunteers Rosebella, Joyce, Jaison, Akhil, Kevin, Tijo, Anoop & Gulab from Udaipur.The resource person for this retreat was Rajan Uncle from Baroda.
The first day program began with Procession & Rosary. Then Mass celebrated by Fr. Danty, Director of Diocesan Youth, Udaipur (main celebrant) and Fr. Siby. That was followed by Ice breaking Ceremony and the sessions of Rajan Uncle, who spoke about God's infinite and unfathomable love for mankind.
The second day was the day of Repentance. The Youth were made aware of various types of sins & God's forgiveness through Repentance. During the confession all experienced God's forgiveness and felt light like a butterfly. The adoration of the Blessed Sacrament touched many. Many Youth who were away from God, experienced God's love & forgiveness.
The last day was the day of inner healing, which was started with the Mass celebrated by Fr. William D’souza,(Principal St. Paul’s School, Banswara).After mass there was a session conducted by Rajan uncle on inner-healing . The program was concluded with an adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Altogether, this retreat was a grand success. Everyone experienced God’s love & his mighty presence.
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.
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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.
-Let the Almighty God arise.
Dear friends in Christ,
Shalom, Sending you a brief report of the One-day programme,"EL-SHADDAI 2006", which was held at St. Theresa's Community Hall, Jodhpur, on 10 December 2006.
The theme of the programme was 'Let God Arise'. The programme began with the keynote address given by Anita Rajpurohit followed by an audio-visual.
In the first session Krishna Kumar from Gurgaon, elaborated on the love of God and the fruits of being in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. After the lunch break, another session was taken on the cost of being a disciple in true sense with all commitment and full zeal as well as availability in all circumstances. It was also emphasised on being not mere a leader but as a 'Servant Leader'. After the second session by Krishna Kumar, panel sharing was done by Vinu George, in which Shanky from Ajmer, Tennyson from Alwar and Shaju K.J. from Delhi shared their love of Christ and the true desire of working for Christ has always lifted them high in the sight of God. The sessions as well the panel sharing motivated the participants in a great way.
Later in the evening re-constitution of Jodhpur Service Team was done with lots of prayers and discernment. The new members are Alok, Annet,Sanjith, Rijo, Divya,Ancy,Abha and Sanu.
At the end of the day, it was apt to say that the Good Lord's spirit was constantly guiding each and every person , which is truly going to be a inspiration for the youth of Jodhpur to be honest to Christ Jesus in all ways and means.
Thanks for all the prayers,
hope to continue the same,
to Spread HIS Good News,
Ancy Peter.
