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JYKC 1st Meeting at Bangalore (Snehadaan)

The new Jesus youth team for Karnataka region was formed, announced and anointed on 22nd November, 2015 and the first team meeting happened at Bangalore on Dec 19 & 20

Present
JYKC Members - Shinto, Asha, Renish, Rinto, Balu, Shine, Louis, Julia, Neha, Anto (ex-officio) And Francis Uncle (elder)

Priests- Fr. Mari Joseph (Secretary, Youth Comission), Fr. Bineesh, Fr.Vinoy

JYNC members- Shoy, John

“THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN HIM”

December 19th Saturday
The meeting started at 10 am with a good time of prayer, rosary and praise and worship led by Neha.

After prayer we were privileged to have with us Fr. Mari Joseph for our first meeting. He spent quality time with us and told us about his expectations from us as to be spiritual warriors and get many more youth in Karnataka to be warriors for Christ.

Fr.Mari Joseph also celebrated the mass for us.
After mass we continued spending time with father till 2 over lunch.
At 2 we all gathered back to continue the meeting starting with an action song “Yeshu Jote Yalli Iruvaga”
We also had a Sharing on the Bible verse from 2 Timothy- 21
Few key points of the sharing-
• Need to be a soldier and not look at my needs but at God
• Responsibility
• Rewards and Sufferings
• Love and oneness
• Understanding
• Share in suffering like good soldier of Christ Jesus
• We are children of God
• Prayer
• In our weaknesses his strength is made perfect
• Winning is possible only if we compete according to rules

After A time of reflection through bible messages we went into a time of personal sharing of each team member, after each team members sharing we prayed for them and picked a bible message for the same.

From 5-6 we had wonderful time of team building through games such as Basketball, Volleyball and Throw ball.

After games we freshened up and again continued the Sharing which helped us know our team members in a very beautiful way.

From 7-8 we had a wonderful time with our Lord through Adoration.

After adoration we had dinner and winded up the day.

December 20th Sunday
We started the day 7am with time of prayer Led by Asha.
After Prayer we had breakfast and continue with Personal Sharing.
At 12 we had mass offered by Fr.Bineesh
After mass we had a great time with Fr.Vinoy who shared few key points with us
• JYKC responsibility is serious
• It’s not a burden
• Not to act as a stranger to the team
• There is no problem with Gods choice it’s how I look at it
• Misunderstandings need to avoided
• Our dream is to work simple way, be faithful to team meetings and responsibilities
• Remember that when one team member ceases to work the work of the whole team gets paralyzed
• We shouldn’t loose sight of lower teams
• We should have concern and build ministries in fraternal way
• Build great vision for Karnataka
• Focus on leadership
• Individual attention
• Oneness has to be poured into the team
• Communication is needed
• Personal calling and follow up

We then moved forward for Lunch
After lunch we had few words shared by our national council Coordinator Mr.Shoy
• Communication
• Council first a family then administrative body
• Uncompromising spirituality
He also laid forward few proposals regarding the movement and team functioning
After this sharing we had prayer followed with the distribution of team responsibilities
Shinto- Coordinator
Asha- Asst-Coordinator
Neha- Parish ministry, Secretary- 9741323599
We winded up the team meeting with prayer.