Help the Students in the Church

A crore of Christian youth may get good education at government expense if the Church wakes up

More than Rupees 3,500 crores to be had in scholarships and assistance

JOHN DAYAL

More than Rupees 3,500 crore has to be had from the government just for the education of Christian children from primary to doctorate and foreign studies in the next six years – if only the Church and laity wake up and help. Ballpark estimates say almost a crore of boys and girls of economically disadvantaged rural and urban families from the pre-primary to PhDs, engineering, medical and professional courses students could be assisted.

The money is in the government’s Plan budgets. And this is apart from the money that is spent on minority-concentrated districts – and hopefully block level units in the future – by various ministries such as those of Social Welfare, rural development and even of water supply for the befit of the minorities after the Justice Rajender Sachchar committee excavated the bitter fact that these areas continued to suffer from lack of development even when compared to “general” districts in the backwards group.

According to the data available with the Planning Commission’s Working group on Minorities, the Budget provisions under the ongoing Five year Plan for the period 2010 is Rupees 2,600 crores, making a total of Rs
7,000 crores for the 11th Plan. For the 12th Plan now under preparation, a massive sum of Rs 15,000 crore is envisaged for scholarship and other schemes under the Ministry of Minorities Affairs. This is for all minorities to be distributed on a pro rata basis. The Christian community is about a fifth the size of the Muslim community according to official records. Their share of the entire amount is 20 per cent, a whopping figure. Rule of thumb statistics put the number of Christian students at one crore, including Tribals who continue to get benefits under the Scheduled Tribes quotas.

This figure does not include Dalit Christians who are neither counted a Scheduled Caste, nor as Christian unless they so register themselves. In starts such as Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Naidu, even in Kerala and Maharashtra, many want to be listed as Hindus so that they can get the Scheduled caste benefits denied to them so cruelly under the Presidential order of 1950. [The case has been before the Supreme Court for a number of years, and it is not clear when there will be a ruling on it.]

The government releases these funds under several schemes, including the Maulana Azad Foundation, free coaching and allied schemes, equity to the National Minorities Development Fund, Research and monitoring studies, grants in aid to state governmetns, schemes for leadership development among young women, interest free subsidy on academic bank loans for studies abroad in addition to separate funds for centrally sponsored scholarship schemes.

The leadership of the Muslim community ahs woken up this fact. Deeply focused and committed NGOs have been set up to ensure that every student who qualifies for the merit cum means and other scholarships gets the benefit and is not left to the mercy of fate. Muslim NGOs and religious leadership, according to their statements, may have been successful in ensuring that over 80 lakh students have scholarships this year, specially in states such as Andhra, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh with large Muslim populations, because of the initiative taken by the community leadership.

There is unfortunately a hiatus in the mass communication of such scholarships despite the claims of the central and state governments. An additional problem is the red tape, an uncaring state bureaucracy, and the lack of cooperation from both private second and public sector banking institutions. The forms have to be taken from local education officers, or downloaded from the internet website of the government, not an easy task in rural areas or where the 2G and 3G networks do not exist, and internet cafes are continuously harried by the police looking for “suspects”. Once the forms are procured and distributed, they have to be correctly filled up, the signatures of uncooperative principals appended to them, income certificates wrested out of empowers of the parents – and difficult if the family in unemployed – various other certificates received, and then the entire bunch uploaded to the department’s website, with the papers submitted to the appropriate authority.

Muslim grassroots experience has shown that this is an impossible task for a child or a parent to do unless expert assistance is available. This is where the special NGOs and volunteers have entered the scene to help the students. The results have been miraculous.

The same NGOs are now pressing on the Governmnt through the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Planning commission that at least 6 crore Muslim students be given scholarships in the 12th Five year Plan. They have assured the government that they would be able to assist as many students of the community across India to avail of the scholarships. The NGOs have also urged the authorities to streamline the scholarship process, specially as the students rise to higher classes in their institutions to ensure that scholarships are available for the entire course and not just for one year. This, they feel, will encourage the students to complete their studies instead of dropping out if the scholarship is terminated because they do not get a 50 per cent score in some year.

Compare this with the Christian situation. It to the best of this writer’s knowledge, no catholic or protestant church group, nor any lay association, has set up such a extensive and committed support infrastructure to assist its student community. The catholic Bishops Conference or its constituents in the Latin, Syro Malabar and Syro Malankara Rites, the National Council of Churches in India representing almost 30 Protestant churches and the Evangelical Fellowship of India do not have the institutions to do this work. This has been left to the Dioceses or individual regional churches. But even in their sectarian – denominational – way, they are almost entirely ineffective.

In almost every state, when the Bishops of the dioceses are informed of the availability of the scholarships, all that they do is to ask Parish priests to announce it after Mass one day. School principals put the scholarship details on the notice board.

The lay organisations, wherever they exist have not even done this, though some of them offer pitifully small scholarships for the poor of the parish by way of charity.

The result of course is that most students are out of the coverage of these schemes, both for the pre Matric classes and in higher education.

A large chunk of the money has lapsed. And there is pitifully little database for advocacy groups to work with the Planning Commission’s Working Group of Minorities drafting the Minorities component of the Plan. Christian leadership has done almost no research on how much of the government’s scholarships have been actually used countrywide. The Muslim monitoring of the government schemes has to be seen to be believed. After the Sachchar commission report, the country’s largest minority has understood that information is power, and an important tool in influencing the making of government policy. The church leadership is yet to understand this.

The minorities are of course demanding that their quota be built into all schemes as a special component, much on the lines of the Scheduled caste ad Scheduled Tribes quotas that are constitutionally built into all government plan spending. It is a moot question that the government will accept this demand, beset as it is by charges from the Bharatiya Janata party that it is appeasing minorities in general and the Muslim community in particular. The phrase “vote bank politics” has become a stick in the hands of the Hindutva forces to beat the government and force it to withdraw from pr-active measures for the amelioration of the poor of the minorities, who are doubly disadvantaged. Their women and the Dalit components have thier future blinded three-fold.

The situation will be corrected once the community becomes pro-active, and its leadership assumes responsibility on ensuring that the benefits reach the youth, and the women.

Khuda Barkat De/ God bless you.

Yours to count on to see India is evangelized in our life time. No one can do it alone. But together we can do it. Let us do it - now,

PG Vargis
Raising the Standard

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Oportunity for Paper Presentations

International Conference on ‘Religion, Ethics and Corporate Culture’

Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, is proposing to organize an international

conference on Religion, Ethics and Corporate Culture on 22 & 23 September 2011.

Rationale of the Conference:

Today’s world experiences a thick presence of corporate culture, a culture generated by the

emergence and predominance of global multinational corporate houses, the ICT-aided media

giants, the service sector companies (banking, insurance, education, etc.) and the like. It is a

culture specific to the contemporary globalised world, superseding the traditional feudal and

even the modern industrial capitalist era. While those regions already in an ‘advanced stage of

economic development’ experience a heavy presence of this culture, the developing regions are

fast catching up with it.

The profile, dynamics and impact of this culture is complex and multifaceted. It promises the

cultivation of a competitively-oriented dynamic human agency, manifest in the massive

movement of personnel and people across continents, in the collapse of borders (social, religious,

cultural, political), in the weakening of traditional hierarchical socio-cultural systems (For

example, the way patriarchal and caste hierarchy are weakening in the Indian context), in the

promise of eradication of unemployment, underdevelopment, and so on.

Economizing of life and resources, profitability, productivity, individual performance, resultorientedness,and above all, an instrumental rationality are the ingredients of this culture. Its

impact is so powerful that it engenders patterns of behaviour, cultural systems, worldviews,

ethos, and even philosophical variants, which privilege individualism and utilitarianism reckoned

in terms of individual dividends and benefits. An immense synchronic focus on the means of life

takes over, thereby weakening teleological orientations for personal or for collective living.

Corporate culture has serious implications, both positively and negatively, for the present day

living as well as for the future of humanity on earth. It impacts upon every sphere of life,

including those of religion and ethics. Under its impact, religions and ethical systems have

begun to mediate experiences which are thick in contemporary concerns, characterized by a

utilitarian urge. Human life is counted for what it produces! Religious and ethical systems

experience a melt down from their metaphysical and ontological certainties and are drawn into

the dynamics of an instrumental rationality.

Unfortunately, such monsters as religious communalism, religious fundamentalism, corrupt

political life, etc. are said to thrive on a soil fertilized by corporate culture. As Jurgen Habermas

would have it, there is a ‘colonisation of the lifeworld’ by forces of money and power today.

These and several other corporatist organizational features characterize not merely the

stakeholders of corporate houses, but also of the wider socio-cultural institutions, including such

personal and intimate social institutions as family, kinship, community, and so on.

These developments necessitate a serious reflection on the interface between the corporate

culture on the one hand, and religion and ethics on the other. Based on this perceived necessity a

conference is proposed to be organized under the general theme of Religion, Ethics, and

Corporate Culture. What are the promises and challenges of corporate culture, especially in

terms of their interaction with religious and ethical systems of humanity is the central question

which is sought to be addressed during this conference. Some of the probable topics are given

below. One can, however, choose any topic related to the general theme.

Probable Topics:

1. Religious pluralism

Ø Managing religious diversity in a globalized Corporate World.

2. Post Secularism

Ø The re-emergence of religion in the public sphere and its effect on Corporate

Policy.

3. The Secular / Post Secular debate.

Ø A contextual understanding of religious practices in the Indian Corporate World.

4. Religious fundamentalism and the Corporate World.

Ø Is Corporate Culture dousing fundamentalism?

5. Corporate Culture & family life.

Ø Is Nihilism undermining fundamental family unity?

6. Corporate Culture & Gender hegemony.

Ø Is the Corporate World empowering women?

7. Corporate Culture & Social hegemonies.

Ø Is Corporate empowerment of the working class breaking down social barriers?

8. New Age Religion & Corporate Culture.

Ø Is the Corporate World using new age religion for people management?

9. Corporate Culture & Communalism.

Ø Is the Corporate World a melting pot of Cultures & Religions?

10. Corporate Culture & Corruption.

Ø Money power in public life.

11. Corporate World & Media.

Ø Is media the mouthpiece of business houses?

12. The Corporatization of religious bureaucracy.

Ø Is the profit motive permeating religious institutions?

13. The Religio ethical life in a globalized Corporate World.

Ø Does the corporate culture ‘colonize the lifeworld’ of the people?

14. Corporate Culture as Religion.

Ø The overarching influence of Corporate Ethics on personal behaviour.

15. Corporate ‘Codes of Conduct’

Ø Are these followed more in the breach?

Those interested to present papers during the conference are requested to send a 400 word

abstract on any of the above topics or related ones to the following e-mail ids: johnc@ifi.co.in

& christianstudy@gmail.com on or before 20 June 2011. Those selected will have to submit

the paper by 10 September 2011. A paper presenter will get 30 minutes for presentation (20 for

presentation and 10 for questions and discussion). Selected papers will be eventually published

in a separate volume.

Venue of the Conference: University of Madras, Chennai – 5

Dates of the Conference: 22 & 23 September 2011

Date to submit the abstract: 20 June 2011

Extension of Last Date :

The date of submission for paper presentation for the International Conference on ‘Religion,

Ethics and Corporate Culture’ is extended up to 15.07.2011.

Mission Article

MARKET SERVICES IN THE CHURCH AS A MISSION PRIORITY

An Ecological Perspective

By the Rev. K. Devanand Subuddy, Presbyter, Rayalaseema Diocese

The word “Market” has a wide spread suspicion in the church as a mission priority by those ways of globalisation that makes the poor poorer and rich richer. There will be a great hostility towards categorising or defining the term “market” as one of the services in the mission because the global market creates an eternal gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore, it also sounds very much ‘unchristian’ to a common member of the church with the scripture, where Jesus cleanses the temple by driving out the market with a whip saying “stop making my [Father’s] house a market place”.

However, there is a paradox with the services in the development of church properties with shopping complexes that ironically serve as a “market overt”. The Church sanctions by its law or custom a place open to the public for selling and buying, in which, the rich occupy those places and become rich every day making poor poorer. The church satisfies with mere rental economy gained by her properties and fails to create a market that reduces or removes the gap between the rich and the poor.

Market in general is a place for selling and buying goods and also earning and spending money. While the market is made only for the rich to sell and earn, only rich become richer whereas the poor become poorer because they only buy and spend. If the market is made for the poor not only to buy and spend but also to sell and earn then the process makes the market to become the saviour of the poor.  

For the studies of ethics and economics, Thomas E. Woods Jr, brings out his book, The Church and the Market: A Catholic defence of the Free Economy.  The book was reviewed by the critics that he has not sufficiently worked on the community-based agriculture and the alleviation of poverty through market. Community-based agriculture is very necessary for healthy products for life because the market today also degrades the environment and the natural resources. The agriculture in the hands of the poor strives for economic justice and become helpless to prevent the ecological degradation of the soil with chemical fertilizers. Thus there is a great need for the promotion of the market for the poor so as to preserve and protect the environment.   

The structure of the Church is appealing to create a market for the poor with its magnitude of 4 million members in the church of south India. All of them are in the market-places engaged in investing their capital strength in some vocation as slaves or masters to generate income for the economy in their families. When the generation of economy is inevitable then the use of market cannot be diffident to any body including the church. All that the church needs is to take care and prevent the market-pollution in the society that makes rich richer and poor poorer. It should be done by removing the gap between rich and the poor according to the scripture, in which, Jesus compares [kingdom] of God to a land owner that goes to a market place for slaves, who are idle and engages them to earn equally without any gap between themselves. Matt.20:3.

Therefore, primarily this paper understands market democracy for the poor in Lincoln’s words and finds the potentiality of the church, the market creation for the poor by the church and finally places the market in the eco-mission of the church.

Market Democracy in the Church for the poor

The majority of the poor in the church are the agricultural labours and skilled workers. Their produce and their products in the market can never be without a good demand. But the markets today are not made by them themselves but by the rich capitalists. The poor become poorer and the rich become richer in this process because the investment of capital strength of the poor only gets wages and not gains for their produce and their products.

When the poor get only the wages and the capitalists get all their gains, it can not be possible to remove the gap between the poor and the rich. It is because, the market tries to OFF the poor, FAR the poor and BUY the poor. Only when the market is purely OF the poor, FOR the poor and BY the poor, there shall be a hope for the richness of the rich to be transferred into the accounts of the poor and reduce the gap between the poor and the rich.    

The church could make the poor to preserve the environment only when the poor are qualified as the masters of the market. The church not only should engineer a market but also should provide a productive space that shall be eco-friendly and environmentally balanced. Therefore, the mission of the church engages in organic farming with market services as a priority and a preferential option for the poor. 

Potentiality of the Church    

The local pastorate committees of both urban and rural congregations are always engaged in enhancing enormous funds for developmental activities like building community halls, prayer towers, guest houses, compound walls and several buildings in the church campuses for children, youth and women. The expenditure is always more than necessary. However this shows the impact of the potentiality in the church to raise any kind of funds for the development.

One rupee from each member of the church is not only four million rupees for the church to create a market but also four million customers to sustain the market of the poor with gains. Every local church is potential to create a productive space for agricultural land and organise community based agriculture for the poor to get employed and get both the share in the gains and wages for the labour. This will not only transfer the richness of the church but also other customers’ money into the accounts of the poor to reduce the gap.

Most of the church campuses are depicted in the main business arena and are found as the right places to develop a market overt. The churches do develop the buildings and shopping complexes but not the market for the poor members of the church in villages. Every village church is very much able to organise the community based agriculture for organic food products if the urban churches give them a supporting hand as good Samaritans in the journey of earning together.

Creation of the Market as a Service

When church can arrange capital investments from the urban churches for the village churches to organise community based agriculture and produce organic foods along with shopping places and complexes in the urban centres. Then, there will be a stock of organic food products from the village lands into the markets in the urban areas that can be a service to all as a market cooperative society. The definition of service for the mission, here is not only by the urban churches to serve the poor but also the village churches to serve the urban church members to get clean, green and healthy organic foods.

The church should understand the mission from the life of Jesus not only from the time of baptism but also should refer the days from the childhood to the beginning of the ministry. There is a historical support understand the life of Jesus involved as a farmer, carpenter and business person. From baptism of Jesus one finds only preaching, teaching and healing as the mission services of Jesus. Therefore the church cannot confine the mission only to those but also should extend to market services as Jesus very well knew the market from his childhood.

In the beginning, the missionaries did not concentrate on market services because the educational, ecclesiastical and medical services were sufficient to provide jobs and livelihood for the poor in the churches. Today the situation is very much demanding for the market services as a mission priority to provide the economic security for all and make everybody to live honestly and modestly.     

Market in the Eco-mission

In the ecological crises the exploitation for the market plays an important role. Until and unless there is a promotion of market justice there shall be no place for bringing the ecological justice. One cannot green wash the eco-mission mere with planting of trees, making environments green and the acts of refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. It only becomes romanticising the eco-mission than operating the eco-mission.

The operation of the just-market therefore becomes the axis for the eco-mission to balance and prevent degradation of the environment. To refuse plastic, to reduce GHG emission, to promote recycled products are based upon the decisions of the market. How can the plastic products are refused, when the market keeps selling it. How can the GHG emissions are reduced when the market wants more and more factories. How can the recycling process succeed when the market wants to be innovative always?  Thus the market in the church as a service could be only solution not only for eco-justice but also for the starting point of alleviation of poverty.       

Youth Report

CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA – RAYALASEEMA DIOCESE

ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 – YOUTH DEPARTMENT

(Presented in the CSI Synod Youth Directors Meeting)

By Rev. P. I. Bharath Herold

Greetings:-

In the sweet name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, on behalf of youth department – Rayalaseema diocese, I bring greetings to you all, the Chairman, Director of the youth, Board members and all the youth directors / conveners / secretaries of various dioceses of Church of South India.

Youth programmes are conducted  successfully in our diocese. It is my privilege to express my sincere thanks to our Beloved Bishop The Rt. Rev. Dr. K.B.Yesu Vara Prasad for all the help and encouragement. I am happy to present Annual report of youth programmes 2010-2011.

SURVEY OF YOUTH (SOY) :-

The CSI – Youth board along with Synod conducted a survey of both the rural and urban youth in our diocese. In this regard, the diocese has been chosen into seven regions and took the responsibility to conduct surveys and collect two responsible persons (one male and one female within 18 to 35 years) from each church. For this survey around 214 delegates have attended for the meeting. We have distributed the questionnaires.

THEME OF SOY:-

“To provide minor projects to the survey of youth.”

DOCTRINAL YOUTH CAMP:-

The Doctrinal Awareness camp on May 16-19, 2011 was held in the medical college campus of AMC, Arogyavaram for the Rayalaseema diocese. It was all to get aware of the sacraments of Baptism and confirmation instituted in the church of South India.

There were nearly 110 delegates attended the camp, throughout the Rayalaseema diocese. It was a big camp for this academic year.

COUNSELING MINISTRY:-

It is visible that present day youth has lot of questions and confusions. We as a youth association have had conducted special counseling camps in Rural and Town churches. Thereby, all sort of their questions were answered to lead a successful spiritual and social life.

AWARENESS PROGRAMMES:-

In the YSR district, around 2000 people have been affected by HIV/AIDS; among them 800 are children and youth. To bring awareness among the youth about this deadly disease, our department has conducted AIDS awareness programme with the Campbell hospital in all educational institutions.

GOSPEL OUT REACHING PROGRAMMES:-

Youth are very active in participating outreach programmes. These programmes were conducted once or twice in a month. These programme were usually conducted in a pastorate and a group level. The main objective of this programme is to proclaim the Good news, introducing Christ to the unreached and pray for the people those who are in need specially sick. As part of this programme some social awareness programmes were also conducted.

YOUTH BIBLE STUDIES :-

Youth used to gather once in a week to study the Bible. Through this programme youth were so benefited and spiritually deep rooted in Christ. Youth attending this programme was really a good strength to the Church. We are able to conduct Bible studies mostly in urban and rural congregations.

ONE DAY YOUTH RETREATS AND CAMPS :-

One day youth retreats and camps were conducted for the youth. These programmes were conducted in a Group level and a Division level and usually they are for a day or two.

YOUTH PRAYER CELL:-

This is encouraging the church youth to pray for others as an attitude. The prayer points are also being informed with the use of modern technological facilities like mobile phones, SMS, E-mail for this purpose.

ARTS AND SPORTS FESTIVAL:-

In order to promote and encourage youth’s potentialities, we have conducted Arts and Sports festivals.

TALENT NIGHTS:-

To bring out the talents of our youth people we have conducted talent night programmes. This has been the platform to exhibit the hidden talents.

Thank You,

Rev. K. Devanand Subuddy,            Rev. C.Ananda Rao,

  Chairman                                      Director

YOUTH NEWS

A BRIEF REPORT OF THE AWARENESS CAMP ON MAY 16-19, 2011, WHICH WAS GRACIOUSLY HELD IN THE PROPOSED MEDICAL COLLEGE CAMPUS OF AMC, AROGYAVARAM FOR THE RAYALASEEMA DIOCESE 

Theme

…Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?_ Mark 10:38

Speakers

Rev. Dr. T. Isaac Prasanna Kumar (CSIND)

Rev. P. Isaac Varaprasad (CSIRD)

Dearly beloved of Christ Jesus,

In the sweet name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I greet you and thank you for all your co-operation, love and support for this Awareness Camp.

This camp happen to be the prayer fruit of our youth fellowship of Gudisevaripalle, who prayed since a long time to organize a Camp for the whole Rayalaseema diocese under the above said theme. It was all to get aware of the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation instituted in the Church of South India. The above mentioned two speakers were prayerfully selected to teach the Doctrines of Baptism and Confirmation and theme devotion respectively.

As the church in Gudisevaripalle is a very small congregation, a request was made to the Dr. Wesley, the Director of the AMC to host the Camp. Thereby with the gracious acceptance of the AMC, it was very easy to organize it with the spirit of enrichment.

There were nearly 110 delegates attended the camp and of them 87 registered and again of them 57 registered by paying a fee of Rs. 150/-. This was a very small amount but there was a huge contribution by AMC and the College & School of Nursing. Along with these, the congregation of Pulivendula, Some members of Gudisevaripalle and Nakkalavaripalle could also contribute their part. There were 47 outstation delegates, who were from Kadapa, Adoni, Mantralayam, Yemiganur, Proddatur Rameswaram, Pulivendula, Poluru, Perusomula, Arlagadda, Madanapalle and so on.

The camp started from 16^th evening and ended by 19^th afternoon. On 16^th there was an inaugural session of introductions and an inaugural address. On 17^th we had tight sessions both in the morning and afternoon for doctrines with group discussions. In the evening we had a walk to one of the quite places of AMC campus for a sunset meditation called “Sandhya Samarpana”. And before supper there was devotion on the theme. This day could orient the delegates of their Mother Church, observances of Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation and the commitment. Every night before supper we had devotion on the theme with alter calls for the commitment to the Church and its mission in CSI. This resulted with14 delegates to boldly commit to work for their mother church.

The next day 18^th was an orientation of the spiritual life with baptism. How to do a personal bible meditation and how to prepare in leading a group bible study were taught with practicals. There were 12 delegates voluntarily committed to start the bible studies in their respective churches’ campuses with the calling by the Church. They themselves shall call the members to the bible studies and organize themselves with the knowledge of the local pastor.

There were practical talks on the “Purpose of Life” by Rev. A. Jayaraju and “Temptation of the Youth” by Rev. I. Prabhakar. After lunch we had a music class as an orientation to learn KEY BOARD. A book of music was released in the Camp. We could not play games because of rain but delegates were practicing choreographies and skits for the cultural programmes. The cultural programmes were so meaningful and spiritual with good messages in them.

With these two days all the 87 delegates could understand the differences in the teaching and the doctrines of CSI with other sectarian groups that always do the sheep stealing. With this awareness seeds of thinking for the mother church were sowed in their hearts and minds.

On 19^th we had the communion service followed by the inaugural prayer of the foundation stone of the AMC gate in remembrance of its 100 years. Then all the delegates joined to profess the vision of the Church. They could bring out their feelings and all the sixes and sevens of the diocese with suggestions from their little knowledge. Finally, understanding their awareness in the camp, we gave away participation certificates for all to identify them for a next camp on discipleship and lead bible studies in their respective churches by the calling of the church.

Kindly control the speed and hurried spirit of their commitment to the mother church under your pastoral guidance and please encourage them to conduct a bible study once in a week in the church campus separately for boys and girls. Also a youth fasting prayer separately as we send them a monthly prayer letter.

We could also happily make programme to give Awareness on CSI Baptism and Confirmation for your one day retreat or two day retreat and even half a day retreat if your pastorate committees are willing to sponsor in your church. Kindly use the delegates that attended the camp and if your church did not send any delegates arrange a retreat so that we could orient with your help.  Once again thank you for all your love and support in the name of our lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you,

Yours truly,  

Rev. K. Devanand Subuddy.