The JY-Hyd team was invited to Ramnagar parish for a half day program to meet up with the youth of the parish and instill in them a sense of belongingness and ownership & responsibility towards its parish.

A 10 member JY-Hyd team went to Ramnagar parish for this and spent more than half the day, with the youth encouraging and motivating them in this endeavor.

There were about 17 members, of which 9 of them were girls present from the local church. They were very happy and cheerful to see and receive us.

The program started off at about 11:00 am with some action songs. Eabin was the MC for the day and kept the audience on their feet. After the action songs, there was an ice breaking session conducted by Eabin and everybody was relaxed after this.

Following this, we had a time of praise and worship lead by Jarald. A short time where all of us freely praised God giving thanks for all the marvelous work he was doing in our lives.

After this time, Fr. Vincent took over to present “THE WORD” … Fr. Vincent spoke for about an hour on the various aspects of team building and coming together as one community to serve and improve the parish.

This was followed by a sumptuous and some delicious Hyderabadi biryani for lunch. Everyone relished the food well.

After a rather quick lunch, everyone was called to assemble back at the hall and we had some action songs again.

This was later followed by enacting a skit “The Chair”. Jarald played the protagonist.
This skit elicited the idea that sin looks so beautiful initially, that we play around with it but then once we get used to it we become addicted and finally a slave to it…. Then no medicine, exercise, tantriks can help us but it is only through the power of prayer that we get out of it

After the skit we had a half hour sharing by Jarald who mentioned his testimony and his spiritual journey so far with Jesus Christ…. This was an inspiring witness as everyone listened with rapt attention.

We concluded, with a prayer and song and bid our farewells by thanking the priests and all the participants for their active involvement and for having us help them out in whatever little way we could.

The Ramnagar visit, though a short trip, we were able to drive home the message that everything is possible when we come together as a group with Jesus in control.

All the participants were definitely charged up towards the evening and we left them in the safe hands of Fr. Vincent and Fr. Arun who then lead them into planning and other activities for their parish.