Vijay, Dilson, Abru and Ashwin reached Vijayawada for JY VJA Monthly gathering and also for mobilization of JY AP Telugu Initial Retreat " Yesu Rammanuchunnaru".

They Meet Fr. Bosco in his room & after a small prayer and blessing of the prayer cards they started the meeting for the "AP initial retreat" .... (Sunita from Vwada joined in)

The meeting lasted for 90 mins during which they spoke about intercessions, mobilization, dates, venue, accomodation, finance, resources, target youth

These are the outcomes from the meeting:

1. Dates are 12 July evening to 15 evening - This is to accomodate the students, since it is second saturday and they need to apply only 1 day leave ... Anything before is too early.

2. Venue & Accomodation - Will be at Gunadala ...

3. Target youth - 12 std onwards to degree .. Expecting 400 students + 100 working prof.

After this Fr. Bosco left us at 11:00 am to meet Bishop as they had some other urgent meeting and Bishop was leaving elsewhere in the afternoon.

After that they met up with the JY Vja elders Pailey and Martin chetta and briefed them for anther 90 mins of this program details. ..... They were very supportive and encouraging and gave their feedback.

Lunch followed at about 2:00 pm and then the Vwada big guns (Chakry, Vignan, Stephen .....) joined in.

The prayer meeting started at 2:00 pm and after the regular action songs, P&W and Fr. Bosco's talk, we spoke about the importance of having the "AP initial retreat at Vwada", recommittment day etc etc .... Martin and Pailey chetta also spoke to everyone and encouraged them to participate and organize this big event.

Towards the end we have identified and formed the foll. teams:

1. Intercession - Stephen Cordy
Team - Sunita, Deepthi, prashanti, Praveena

2. Mobilization - Chakry Cordy
Team - kiran gunala, prasanna, srikala, aruna, shyam, mahesh, ravi, praveen, jagadeesh

3. Fianance - Chaitanya Cordy
Team - Kiran, phani ....

4. Program - Vignan Cordy -
Team - Venu, ...........

At about 6:00 pm, they went to the JY prayer house and after giving thanks, they climed the mount. Reached back at 7:30 pm briefed Fr. Bosco of the meeting, had dinner at 8:30 pm and left for the station at 9:30 pm ..... Reached secbad this morn at 5:00 am.