Women’s fellowship unit started in our parish in the year 1981. Women’s fellowship members raise funds through mite box collections and mini Harvest Festival auctions. Their notable contributions are the sponsoring of a Mission house in Parakkal, jointly with the Youth Movement, and contributions to “Asha Bhavan,” - a home for the differently-abled. Mite box offerings are received during the Women’s Fellowship anniversary. Special sessions of counseling and cooking are conducted for the benefit of the participants. Bible quiz and games are played to invigorate their minds. Eminent personalities are invited to lead Women’s fellowship retreats.

       I have great honour to place before you a brief report of the Women’s Fellowship of our church. In the holistic mission of the church, women have a pivotal role to play in the building up the kingdom of God on earth. Under the able, experienced and seasoned leadership of our devoted Vicar Rev. Kurien Mathew and Mrs. Ruby Kochamma, the Women’s Fellowship has excelled in several horizons.   The office bearers of the Women’s Fellowship for the year 2010-2011 are as follows:-

 The following are a gist of our regular activities

1.     Year Plan: - A year plan was drafted as a guideline for the functioning for the entire year. Our activities began with the membership campaign. We have around 120 members with us.

2.    Cottage meetings: - Cottage prayer meetings are conducted especially in the homes where there is a prayer need like in sickness or in obituary. We have chain prayer, on every Saturday interceding for the needs of the church and for the community at large.

3.     Retreats & Seminars: - Retreats and seminars are conducted 2-3 three times a year. A time for us to refresh under the divine guidance and power of the Holy Spirit.

4.     Harvest Festival: - Women’s Fellowship conducts Harvest festival in all three worship centres and the proceeds are used for charitable help.

5.     Vanchika collection; - We have the vanchika samarpanam on the annual day and the collection is also used for charitable or missionary help.

6.     Bible Games and Quiz competitions are arranged and even our Women’s Fellowship members participate in Talent Night show programmes.

7.     Women’s Sunday: - We celebrate Women’s Sunday in all three worship centres and our women members actively lead in the conduct of the divine worship.

8.     Charitable/Missionary Help: - The Women’s Fellowship had contributed a sizable amount towards Asha Bhavan, for the marriage of a girl in the Parakkal mission.  We had built a mission house with the youth movement at Parakkal mission.

9.     Orphanage Visit: - The members of the Women’s Fellowhsip visit an orphanage every year to help the poor and needy people in the community. We had donated Wheel Chairs, Bed Sheets, Uniforms Food Items and shares a meal with them during our visit.

10.     Women’s Fellowship Anniversary.:- With the anniversary that years programme draws to an end which includes games and competitions.

              Through various activites both formal and informal the Women’s Fellowship grows in ardent faith and intense service for Christ and church. Through our deeper involvement we continue to enjoy our Saviour Jesus Christ most intimately and incessantly. With all humility we can confidently state that we are utilising our time talent and treasure for the welfare of Gods kingdom. Indeed we are blessed by our togetherness in faith and in deeds. It is our wish and hope that our God Immanuel will bless our women and further the activities of the Women’s Fellowship

             By the grace of God and the hard work put in by the choir members, the choir had an eventful year. At the choir anniversary held on Jan 16th 2010, office bearers including Choir Director, Secretary, 2 joint secretaries and 4 committee members were appointed. The Choir committee for the year 2010-2011 are as follows.

Director: Mr. Korah Abraham,

Secretary: Dr. Jaison John,

Jt. Secretaries: Jeku Kurien, Reena Victor,

Committee members: Susan Johnson, Anby Cherian, Sabin John, Sharon Alex. Various responsibilities like attendance, chair arrangements were assigned to choir members.

             Practice for the Passion recital commenced from I 5” February. The recital was held atAll Saints Church on 3rd April2010. Various Malayalam hymns and 3 special English songs were beautifully rendered by the Church Choir. This was well appreciated by the congregation. The Choir also actively participated in the Passion Week services.

             In May we bade farewell to Rev. Nebu Skanah. The choir retreat was not held this year.

            Rev. Kurian Mathew joined as the new vicar. Choir Sunday was celebrated on 30th August 2009. Dr. Jaison John delivered the message. The choir members actively participated in the service, during which 2 special songs were rendered by the choir. 4 new members were dedicated to the choir and all the existing members were re-dedicated.

             Practice for Christmas started from the end of August, and we were rigorously trained by our Choir Director. Our Carol Service was held on 12” Dec 2009 at Marthoma Church Kirkee with Rev. Sunny Thomas of Marthoma Church as the Chief Guest. It was a unique experience for the choir to sing in a beautiful church with excellent acoustics, and the choir put up a magnificent performance which was highly appreciated. The choir members also participated in United Christmas Celebrations at Dhanori, where we rendered 2 songs.

           The second Passion recital was held on Saturday 3d April 2010, where the choir rendered 6 songs beautifully. The Vicar of the Evangelical church Kirkee was the chief Guest.

             The choir was fortunate to have the services of Rachna Chandy, Ronnie Joseph and Mr. Korah Abraham on the Keyboards. The choir sang for one wedding in the past year. Thanks to every individual choir member for their efforts. I also thank Achen and the Church Committee fortheir support and guidance.

Dr. Jaison John.

   
Year plan: The year plan was prepared and approved by the youth committee. By the Lord’s grace we have been able to carry out most of the programs with the active participation of the youth committee and members under the able guidance of our Achen Rev. Kurian Mathew.

Membership Campaign: The membership campaign was executed with a purpose of reaching out to all the youth in the church by visiting them personally and trying to get them involved in all the activities of the youth and the church. Duly filled membership forms were collected by the area committee members with an annual subscription of Rs 10/-.

One Day Youth Conference: The 21st  annual one day youth conference was held on the 2nd  of October 2009 at the old parsonage from 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 43 youth members attended this conference.

Theme: Reachout! Everyone Everywhere Needs Your Help.

Speaker Rev. RS. George, Retired. Army Chaplain, Faculty at Institute of National Integration, CME.
It was on this day that the committee for the year 2009-2010 was elected as listed below:
 

President	Rev. Kurian Mathew
Vice PresIdent	Mr. Renosh Korah
Secretary	Mr. Ashwin Varghese
Treasurer	Miss. Divya Char1y
JoInt Secretary	Miss Ann Tharian and Mr. Kurien George
Church committee Representative	Mr. Gebhoy Koshy Tharian
Committee Members	Mr. Jeku Kurien, Mr. Tony Koshy, Miss. Sonia Joseph, Miss. Jyothi Thomas, Mr. Joel Jose.
Kaleidoscope	Mr. Sanish Stephen and Mr. Jeku Kurien
Librarians	Miss. Diana Victor, Mr. Sabin John

Lucky Draw: The Lucky draw was held on the 1 of January 2010 at the All Saints’ Church after service, proceeds of which amounting to Rs. 42,000 was donated towards the building of the mission house in Parakkal. We would like to thank all the members who have wholeheartedly donated towards this cause.

Annual Convention 2009: A special session for the youth and young couples was held at the Old Parsonage, Khadki, on 23rd  January 2010. The session was conducted by Rev. C.Y.Thomas, Vicar of St. Paul’s church, Changanacherry, who had come as the guest speaker for the Annual convention.

              Rev. C.Y.Thomas then spoke on a very relevant topic “Christian youth in the search of a meaningful life”. As youths, living in this world of cutthroat competition, we are often faced with situations where we tend to question the real meaning of life. He spoke about having a vision, leading a disciplined life, having a clear conscious and working towards the goal in life with an undying passion and provided us with very useful suggestions on how to make our youth movement more strong and vibrant.

 Annual Youth Camp: The Annual Youth camp was held at the ‘House of Prayer’ in Khandala from the 26th  to 28th  February 2010. The theme exposition was explained wonderfully with an elaborate and extensive PowerPoint presentation taking cues from the lives of Samson and Joseph. It was a blessed experience for the 28 youth members who made it for the 3-day retreat.
Theme: Commit your ways to the Lord; Trust in Him and He will act.

Speaker: Mr. Franklin Natesan, a member of the CNI Parish and an active member of the Evangelical Union.

Blood Donation Camp: The Blood donation camp was organized for the first time by the youth movement as a commitment towards a social cause. The camp organized on the 18th of April 2010, with the help of the Ruby Hall Medical foundation was a great success with 33 bottles of blood being collected. We would like to thank Achen for his Leadership and prayers, the volunteers for their tireless efforts to ensure it was systematically organized and most importantly all the donors for their selfless act.

Cottage Prayers: Cottage prayer meetings were held at the homes of Miss. Sonia Joseph and Mr. Anil Chenan. We intend to conduct prayer meetings every alternate month from this year.

Youth Sunday: Youth Sunday was held on October 4th  and Mr. Joby Varghese, final year B.D. student spoke on ‘Youth in search of a meaningful life’.

Kaleidoscope: The youth members have been actively contributing to the Parish bulletin. We would like to thank Rev. Kurian Mathew, Mr. C.E Joseph, Mr. Jeku Kurien and Mr. Sanish Stephen for taking efforts each month to collate articles well in time for the bulletin to be printed. We would also like to thank members of the church for having contributed articles on varied topics for the bulletin.
 

“Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it”. (Prov: 22:6),              

Is the aim of our Sunday School to mould a child in to a God Fearing and well behaved individual. With the grace of our Lord, the Sunday school activities at St Paul’s Malayalam Parish has improved with Achen’s mentoring, the teacher’s coaching, parent’s guidance and the collective support of all our Parish members.

 Sunday School Office Bearers

              We have 11 teachers spread between the 3 centers. There are total 55 students.

Sunday School Teachers Meeting / Retreat

           The Sunday School teachers meeting and retreat is held twice a year to discuss the annual planning and the Sunday School activities.

 Sunday Classes

       The new session of the Sunday School commences in the month of June every year with the special Prayer at all the three centres during the Sunday Service. Each student is given a note book comprising of Worship order, Spiritual Songs and Pages for Notes. The text book is prescribed by the Indian Sunday School Union Coonoor. Importance is given to classroom teaching. The students are divided in to 5 classes- Beginners, Primary, Juniors, Intermediate and Seniors. The class begins with the singing session led by the UBS students followed by the order of Worship and Classroom Teaching. Malayalam is also taught to the students by the teachers.

 Vijaysthothram

        The Vijaysthothram is also carried out at all the worship centres in gratitude to God Almighty for granting each child a successful academic year.

Annual Sunday School Conference/ Talent Nite

          The Annual Sunday School Conference is held during the Diwali Vacations every year. The children learn new songs, stories and learn to be an Ambassador of Christ. A teachers meeting is organized to strengthen the teachers to impart Christian Education. The children and the teachers participate in the ‘TALENT NITE’ to glorify the Almighty.

Sunday School Sunday

          The Sunday School  Sunday is celebrated in all the 3 centres in November every year, the worship is led by the students themselves. The message is delivered by the Seniors of the Sunday School in all the 3 centers.

Carol Service

         The children put up a meaningful skit as well as a Junior Choir at the church Carol Service. The Santaclause surprise the kids with colorful gifts.

Sunday School Competition

          Children of all the 3 centres jointly compete for the various events such as Action Songs, Solo Songs, Memory verse recitation as well as written exam, story telling, elocution and Bible Quiz.

Sunday School Examination

           The Annual exams are conducted in the month of February every year. 10% marks are given for Malayalam.

Social Visit

            As per the Annual plan, the children are to be taken for an Orphanage Visit this year.

Sunday School Anniversary

           Sunday School Anniversary is held in the month of March. The Anniversary provides plenty of opportunity to the children to express themselves through the talents. The Sunday Service is led by the Sunday School Teachers. The children put up a Skit and a Group Song for the congregation. Prizes are given for 100% attendance, best Note Book and also First, Second and Third Prizes for all the events in the various categories.

May the Lord bless the Sunday School in the coming Academic years.