Novemeber 25th 2006 --------- St Ann’s College - Mallapur

The JY-Hyd team at the behest of Annette(Full timer for JY-Hyd) was invited to St. Ann’s college-Mallapur for almost a day’s program to meet up with the students of the college to help & encourage them start off a prayer group at the college.

A 10 member JY-Hyd team went to St. Ann’s college for this and spent more than half the day, with the students encouraging and motivating them in this endeavor.

As informed, the JY team was expecting a small crowd of 30-40 students to be ministered to. However, some over enthusiastic students from the non-Christian community too volunteered to be a part of this event. So on reaching there at about 9:30 am the principal asked us to make all the sessions as generic as possible since now we were catering to a crowd of about 120-130 girl students most of which were non-christians. Immediately, we realized we had to scale up and tailor down some sessions, since we were not prepared for such a huge crowd. This included changing the ice-breaker event, having more song sheets photocopied etc.

Even before the students could assemble at the hall, the JY team first started off with a prayer and thanksgiving to our GOD. The team did not know what and how they were going to go about things but sought God’s divine intervention and HIS providence on the proceedings and in retrospect - as always it worked

The music ministry started off with some songs while students were still settling in the hall. On settling down, the action songs followed and after the initial reluctance there was good support. Two JY members Prakash and Abraham dashed off to the chapel for intercessions.

Vijay Sunder, the MC for the day then gave an introduction on the theme “THE CALL”. The ice breaker followed after this and Vijay co-ordinated it. As opposed to the planned “Mixed bag” just considering the no. of participants we switched to the “Slipper Hunt”. Everyone participated well in this event and had a good time.

Some more action songs followed suite and then after some slow songs, Ashvin lead them into a time of praise and worship. This brought about complete serenity and quietness descended on the hall as everyone silently just praised and thanked GOD. This lasted for about half an hour and at about 11:00 am the next session followed.

Prakash took up the following session on the Word of God. He encouraged the students to read the scriptures and quoted many instances from the Bible on the theme “THE CALL”. During this time the JY-team met outside and practiced the skit.

At about 11:30 am, a lunch break was announced and while students had lunch the JY team had a tea break. Everyone assembled at the hall at around 12:15 pm and then the music ministry started off again with some good music with Russel, Banarjee, Angela and Ashvin at the mikes. Action songs started and the students were ready for more.

At this point Vijay divided everyone into groups for a workshop session and 10 groups were formed. The groups were then asked to elect a leader from the group, select a name for the group, enact the title and also made sure that each member in the group got introduced to one another.

Each group then presented the act, wherein they enacted the group title…. Some groups took this a little too serious and did some extensive, elaborate acting to bring out the theme. After this there was a workshop session conducted by Annette and Vijay while the remaining JY members helped out. The Workshop was on “The Three trees”. After reading the passage and discussing the questions each team was asked to present their point of view on it. During this time some of the JY members had their lunch.

After a small break, everyone assembled in the hall to start off with action songs. A panel discussion followed. Annette, Chrysantia and Angela doned the stage and shared their experiences while Vijay intermediatarily posed some questions. This was a good sharing and many people seemed to connect with it as they listened in rapt attention.

At about 2:00 pm, Prakash presented in brief all about JY, its motto & mission. This was followed by explaining the six pillars in JY. Each pillar was explained with examples by 6 different people who included Prakash, Annette, Chrysantia, Abraham, Vijay and Banarjee. After this couple more action songs followed and the JY team gave thanks to the Mgt. and Sisters of St. Ann’s college.

After a note of thanks from one of the students to the JY team, Vijay brought down the curtains on this program and bid everyone thanks and farewell.

All the students dispersed at 3:00 pm, while some of the JY team members had lunch. During this time the JY team, had a discussion on the day’s events and to everyone’s understanding & agreement the day’s events went off rather extremely well.

“THE CALL” proved to be an introductory learning & to deepen their faith & trust in JESUS for all the students. It was dig at the students to study well while not forgetting to pray at all times. The message “Study Pray & Pray Study” was emphasized so that these students grow in faith and love in our Lord Jesus & in fellowship with one another.