JY Prayer House Inaguration

A Report By Hyderabad Jesus Youth

After the general meeting at Emmaus for “Mirror 2007”–a growth retreat to be conducted by JY-HST from 19-22 April, Besto and Ashvin set out for Vijayawada boarding the 10:40 pm train from Sec-bad.

Chaitanya(JY-Vwada) received the hyderabadis, at around 5:30 am and immediately they set off for Gunadala. They were then introduced to Fr. Bosco who had a brief discussion and welcomed them.

After getting refreshed Besto and Ashvin then, accompanied with Vignan, set out to the church, where joined by Br. Adolf, Lucy chechi and Karen all joined in the procession with everyone carrying palm leaves, it being palm Sunday.

The procession culminated with Holy mass celebrated by His grace Prakash Mallvarapu (bishop of V’wada) at around 10:30 am

Following this, Bishop then inaugurated a training center, opened up to train people get jobs in different BPOs. The hyderabadis had a little tête-à-tête with him during this interim. Later, bishop inaugurated a prayer hall gifted to the JY of Vijaywada, for their regular JY activities and after a short time of prayer in the hall by Stephen, bishop encouraged all the people present to join JY and make use of the facilities provided and have a closer encounter with GOD.

A small photo shoot session followed and then the humble, any time approachable, non-assuming, ever encouraging JY activities bishop bid his farewells. Everyone were just mesmerized with his humility, simplicity and down to earth nature.

Breakfast time and Fr. Bosco got to speak more with all the hyderabadis. Fr. Bosco too came across as a very simple, “wanting to do something for youth” kinda person. He was very open in his conversations and seldom spoke much.

Everyone(about 12-15 jy members) then gathered in the auditorium where Br. Adolf lead the Praise and Worship. After this, everyone introduced themselves to the group. Particularly long introduction was of Martin chetta(elder for JY-Vwada), Sr. Jacintha(warden of Stella Maris college and extremely supportive of JY) and Sunita(hindu girl with immense faith in Jesus)

At about 1:45 pm, the group went for lunch and were back at about 2:15 pm for a meeting with JY-Vijayawada. By this time Martin Chetta and Sr. Jacintha had moved on.

There were about 65-80 youth present in the auditorium by about 2:30 pm. Action songs started and then after a short prayer by Fr. Bosco and a brief intro by Vignan, Br. Adolf spoke a few words and addressed the JY crowd.

Lucy Chechi also spoke of her JY experiences and mentioned the importance of prayer in the life of a JY.

After a prayer by Fr. Bosco for the JY animators of AP, Br. Adolf and his family bid their farewells.

More action songs followed and then after a prayer and WOG sharing by Fr. Bosco, Besto was invited by Vignan to share his testimony. Sunita also then shared her testimony with the group. Finally, Ashvin spoke a few words about JY and his experience.

Fr. Bosco then concluded with a final prayer and then requested everyone to get to the new prayer hall that was inaugurated earlier in the day to be there for sometime and then disperse. All of us assembled at the hall and after a short prayer, all the JY members left.

Besto, Stephen, Vignan, Sundar and Ashvin then went to visit one of Sundar’s relative staying just adjacent to the church to pray for some personal needs.

After that Vignan and the others moved on while Besto, Sundar and Ashvin climbed the hill to the Gundala mata grotto.

At about 7:45 pm, one final word of thanks to Fr. Bosco for his support and hospitality, Besto, Sundar and Ashvin proceeded to Sundar’s place for supper.

Besto & Ashvin enjoyed a good time of fellowship at Sundar’s place as they got introduced to Sundar’s mom, 2 sisters and a priest Fr. Antony who was present. After a long discussion with the family members and a short time of prayer, a fantastic dinner was served and then Besto and Ashvin left for the station to board the secbad train at 9:35 pm

At the station they were joined by Chakry, Chaitanya and Shashi(all JY-Vwada), who came to bid them farewell. Some notes exchanged, and the train started to move by 10:30 pm.

In all, the trip was arranged and its objective duly met with the sole intention of the animators along with some JY members meeting the bishop and being a part of the inaugural ceremony, to meet the elders and supporters of JY in Vijaywada, to address the JY members and to be a part of the JY-Vwada community and speak to as many people as possible to simply try and encourage, motivate and guide them to a closer bonding and fellowship with Jesus.

Vja Leaders 1Day Recollection

Prakash( JY Hyd Coordinator), Vijay (JY Hyd Campus Ministry Coordinator) and Vignan(JY Hyd Outreach Ministry Coordinaor) started to Vijayawada to meet and spend one day with Active JY Leaders in vijayawada.

They started Praise & worship and every one participated in praising and thanking God for the wonderful works done in their lifes and sang so many songs .

Fr. Bosco, Sr. Jacintha, Pailey chetta, Martin chetta and one Guest Sujatha , ICYM Vijayawada diocese representative and Exco member and Dr.Suresh from Kurnool also joined us whole day other than the JY Vja Leaders.

They all gather in afternoon after lunch and spent some time in praising God and divided in to three groups of 6 each persons and shared what is going through in our lifes (Personal sharing). this helped them alot to understand each other very much better.After that they came back again and prayed for some and discussed about JY role in Vijayawada and necessity of strong core team to coordinate all these activities etc.,

JY Vja Monthly Prayer 4th Mar

Jarald & Eabin were in Vijayawada for the Monthly JY Gathering in Vijayawada. They met all the JY there and a few priests too.

Gunadala Matha Festival

Gunadala Matha Festival was successfull , more than 10 Lakh devoties attended this festival and everything went on well without any problem.

Of those 10 Lakhs only 40% were Catholics means 4 lakh remaining people are mixed people from different religions ( Hindus, Muslims) and ofcourse Prostantents.

Jesus youth in Vijayawada diocese took initiative of reciding 1 Lakh Rosaries & 3 days 24 hours Perpetuial Adoration for the Success of this Festival.

Jesus Youth of Hyderabad and other prayer groups in Andhra Pradesh also joined in completing One lakh Rosaries for the success of this festival,

Festival started with Holy mass on 9th Feb 2007 at 6.30 AM and around 8.30 AM Adoration Started and ended on 11th Feb 2007 late night.

Many Religious ( Sisters , Priests, Decons, Brothers, Seminary & Convent students) , General devoties from Warangal and other parts of AP also took part in this Adoration along with Jesus Youth of Vijayawada Diocese.

Most. Rev. Prakash Mallavarapu, Bishop of Vijayawada also spent some time in Adoration along with Jesus Youth on 9th & 11th Feb 2007.

Fr. Don Bosco , Our diocese Youth Director was always there with us and helped us alot and also two big JY Banners were put one at Main Entrance and other near the Adoration hall so that every one know that Adoration is going on at that place and frequent announcements were made by Fr. Bosco and the Festival organizing committe about the Adoration from the main stage.

On 9th Feb 2007 time was alloted to present Youth Activities from 9.30 to 10.30 PM

It started with Donbosco Navajeen Musical band followed by YOV Skit , theme of the Skit is " Do What Jesus Says " skit depicts the Scene of Marriage of Cana , Mother Mary telling the people to Do what Jesus and it was presented in different way relating to the present days trend.

After that Fr. Bosco gave Introduction of Jesus Youth and the activites that happened in last one year after that we presented Jesus Youth 2006 events 15 minutes Video presentation and our dear Bp. Prakash Mallavarapu graced the occassion and allmost 300 Religious ( Sisters , Priests, Decons, Brothers, Seminary & Convent students) you belive it or not there were more than 50 thousand people were in the ground who watched the video presentation, we all were happy and this happened on 9th Feb 2007 first day of the festival.

On 11th Feb 2007 around 7.30 PM , JY lead the people in Praise & Worship starting with Action songs for more than 25 Minutes and alomst 5 - 10 Thousand people were sitting in the ground who participated in this 40 mins and there are so many people passing by from ground and climbing the Hill as it was the last day of the Festival.


Finally, the festival was successfull and this festival helped Jesus Youth Movement to reach out to many Religious and lay leaders and general people .

JY Prayer in Kankipadu

One Day Jesus Youth Prayer Meeting in Kankipadu Parish

Date: 16th Jan 2007.

Stefen along with Jesus Youth in Vijayawada Coordinated this Prayer Meeting and Fr. Don Bosco shared the Word of God.

Some Highlights :
1. Music by Chaitanya & Rajesh
2. Singing by Chakry, Phani & Prasanna
3. Testimonies by JY CEP 2006 Participants
4. JY Video Presentation.
5. Holy Mass by Itilian Priests.
6. Prayer Groups at the end of the Program really turned to be blessing to all the participants.

JY Prayer in Kodur Parish

Fr. Pasala Thomas , Parish Priest of Kodur Parish Invited Jesus Youth to conduct One Day Jesus youth Prayer Meeting.
Pezzonipet Parish Jesus Youth went Along with Fr. Don Bosco and JY CEP 2006 Participants and Jesus Youth of Avanigadda parish also Joined in the Prayer Meeting.
Date : 13th Jan 2007

Cultural Exchange Programme

18 youth from Andhra Pradesh came back after their one month long cultural exchange programme, on 7th January, 2007. The Youth Delegation was involved in avaried and memorable program which included youth retreat with people from 20 States of India, National Charismatic convention, leadership training program and visits to a number of families, pilgrim centres and historical places of South India.


This CEP 2006 is divided in to 4 Phases.

Phase 1 : Retreat at Divine retreat centre,
Muringnoor.From 8th Dec '06 to 15 Dec '06
On 8th Dec all most 220 particpants arrived to Kerala for this CEP 2006.
On 9th Dec Registration, Introduction and all the formalities were done.
From 10th Dec to 15th Dec , Retreat in different languages according to their languages. AP People got previlize to attend retreat in Telugu.

All most everyone experienced God and many participants felt the God's Touch & presence during Adoration.

Phase 2 (including 2 sundays) :Cultural xchange at Zones.
AP Participants were sent to Thrichur Zone.
From 16th Dec to 26th Dec they lived with Jesus youth families of the zone.

Thrissur Zone was sub divided in to 5 zones and AP participants we send to different parishes in those sub zone they are.
1 Paruvil - Mannaluru Parish -Chakry,Sasi,Sony,Hepsiba,bhaskar,babu
2 Kuttemgudem - Mundoor Parish-Rani,Sushma,Praveen,Dileep
3 Vadakancherry- Atathara Parish-Sridevi,Lakshmi,Venu,Lakshman,Sudhir,Mahesh
4 Ollure - Ollur Parish - Jyosthna, Sr. Lilly
5 Lourrdu Nagar - Mukkatukura Parish - Lourdhu rani, jyosthma, Pratap, Yesu raju

Phase 3 : National Convention .
The national convention is the biggest event for Charismatic renewal in India. It is organised by NST...in Divine Retreat Center more than 20,000 participated in this program and this helped them a lot.
Our Bp. Prakash Mallavarapu, Epsicopal Advisor of AP Catholic Charismatic Renewal, were present for the last two days and even he celebrate Mass in Telugu in telugu section and meet all the CEP 2006 AP Particpants personally and spend some time with us.

Phase 4: Final gathering
Final gathering for cultural exchange program was held in St.Thomas Church at Paravoor. Paravoor is a place close to Kodungaloor,

This church is the First Church in India , founded by St.Thomas the Apostle of Jesus Christ and this church has the History from 52 AD Onwards.

We are very previlized to have the CEP 2006 in that parish.
Three Bishops of Kerala attended this event.

Bp. Sabastien, Aux Bishop of Ernakulam Angamaly.
Bp. Francis , Bishop of Kottapuram.
Bp. Thomas, Aux Bishop of Ernakulam Angamaly

Partipants got opportunity to listen eminet speakers and and all top JY leaders like.

Fr. Cherian, JY National Pastor.
Fr. Dhirab Saboo, JY Animator, Sathvana Community, Delhi.
Fr. Thomas, JY Animator, KYCT.
Fr. Tomy, JY Animator, KYCT.

Manoj Sunny, JY International Coordinator.
Raiju Varghese, JY National Coordinator.
Edward Chetten, JY International Animator
Babychain, JY National Animator.
CC Alicekutty, JY National Animator.
Shelton , Rex Band Coordinator.

All the partcipants got opportunities to present there culture through some cultural programmes in this event .

We performed AP Folk Song in telugu it is called as " Janapatha Nrithym "


*Key learnings from the sharing of the participants.*

Jesus became a living personal Lord and God for al of them

Faith became alive and active and are moved to do and live wonderful thingsfor the Church.
Prayer as a power was experienced by all of them

The value of family life in Kerala was inspiring to all. Especially the ruleof love in the family, respect to parents, obedience of children and youthetc.

The value of confession, Eucharist and rosary was experienced by all ofthem.

The manner in which Jesus Youth in Kerala pray and live their life wasedifying and exemplary.

The hospitality and generosity of the people in Kerala. "They loved us morethan our family members" The talks, adoration, praise and worship shook them to the core of theirbeing.

Many of them experienced physical healing and all of them could experience the power of the Holy Spirit.

Money and possessions do not give us happiness, it is the Joy of being withthe Lord that gives everything in life.

*Action Plan by the team*
To begin family prayer with rosary and to initiate such practice among theirown relatives and friends, villages and parishes.

To make personal prayer a habit with rosary till the end of their life.

To mobilize support for youth to youth evangelization and to speak about therich experience of Jesus to their own friends, peers and family.

Semi - Christmas Celebrations

Semi - Christmas Celebrations started with Carol Singing Competitions

Almost 15 groups participated for carol singing competitions and by 3.15 PM hall was filled with 400 + youth and 300 Gunadala Boarding School children.

Bishop Most. Rev. Prakash Mallavarappu joined for some action songs and the Praise and worship Which was lead by Fr. Bosco , Dr. Francis & Stefen.

And David danced before the LORD with all his might - 2 Samuel 6:14

As they are singing " Yuddhamu Yahovadhe - 'Battle Belongs to the Lord' " song Bishop joined with youth in dance as David Danced before the Lord.It was first time In Vijayawada Diocese that a Bishop Dancing with youth Souting and making joyful noise in Praising God.

Shout aloud / Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms. --- Psalms 98.

After that Christmas Cake was Cut by Bishop followed by Inaguration of Vijayawada Diocese Youth Logo and Magazine ( Sparsha -- Touching lifes of Youth) And after Stella College Hostel Students and Poranki youth performed some Devotional Choregraphy.

Vignan got the chance to convey Vote of Thanks to Bishop on behalf Jesus Youth and Youth of Vijayawada Diocese .

St.Peter’s cathedral_Vja_10 Dec

Semi Christmas celebrations in St. Peter’s cathedral, Vijayawada & JY prayer meeting

The day started with action songs at about 9:30 pm in the morning. Everyone settled down and then there was a beautiful time of Praise and Worship. Later, the sponsors welcomed everyone and felicitated them with Flowers.

Following this, Prakash presented the “Word of GOD”. He quoted many real life stories and this was translated by Vignan in telugu.

Among the youth present were Fr. Chinnapa , Parish Priest & Vice - Chairman of AP Charismatic Regional Service team was there along with Fr. Jojappa Asst. Parish Priest & Fr. Don Bosco , Youth Director of Vijayawada Diocese.

There was tea break announced after this and then Vijay S presented the JY movement along with the video presentation.

This half day program ended with Holy Mass by Fr. Bosco and Fr. Jojappa presented the homily urging the youth to “Fall in love with Jesus”

Maranatha_StellaCampus_9_Dec

Jesus Youth prayer meeting was conducted at Maris Stella college Vijayawada , AP on the 9th of dec’ 06.

This was attended by 120 students in the college hostel premises. The program started at 1:00 pm with Action songs and then Fr. Pasala Thomas officially started the program with prayers and greetings. This was followed by a skit, more action songs and Praise and Worship.

Dr. Francis from Tenali a former Hindu and now a missionary presented the “Word of GOD” and then he distributed Vachanosthavan , POTA Retreat Center Magazine as a free gift to every participant.

After a short tea break there was a session on JY and a video presentation. Games were organized after this and the essence of Team building was stressed upon.

Later there was Workshops conducted and most of them took up a personal commitment to read the Bible regularly and take up the sacraments more seriously.

Later the students and the warden of Stella college proposed the Vote of thanks and everyone went for dinner.

The day ended with Adoration for one hour where everyone participated whole heartedly and then retired to bed at 10:00 pm

Mylavaram Parish Prog,26th Nov

Stefen, Kiran, Chakry, Chaitanya and Prasanna went to Mylavarm parish and conducted 3 hours Jesus Youth prayer meeting in Mylavaram Parish and encouraged them to participated for cultural exchange program.

Same team went to kankipadu, Gannavaram , Gudlavalleru and conducted one Hours prayer meeting in their parishes.

Stefen along with some other Jesus Youth visited Pamarru, Poranki, kankipadu, Bhimavaram, Amalapuram, Kikaluru, pezzonipet, Christhurajapuram, Gannavaram, Mylavaram and some other parishes to mobilize the youth for Cultural Exchange Program.

YOV,JY Followup Prog,3rd Dec

Program started around 1.30 PM and Vignan taught them some Advent season songs and after that Chakry conducted Ice-Breaking session followed by Mandalina and Battle Belongs to the Lord (Yuddamu Yohava de) Actions Songs.

After that we had a nice time of Praise and worship and Asst. Parish Priest of Gunadala Shared Word of God and after that we spent some time in Adoration.

Around 4.30 PM we went to planning sessions and some announcements about Upcoming JY programs and also about Cultural Exchange Program etc.,

This time we have so many new comers and also two Guests. Among them

1. Mr. Jaya Raj from Gunadala Senior Diocese Youth Animator .He represented Vijayawada Diocese in World Youth day and attened in Internatonal Youth Conferences .

2. Miss. Manikyam she is also from Gunadala now is Asian Coordinator for M.I.J.A.R.C Now she is in Chennai and she very active leader and classical Dancer

YOV,JY Followup Prog, 5th Nov

" YOV , JY Follow up Program on 5th Nov".

Theme of the Program : Built your future on the Rock

Program Sarted at 2 PM with Action songs and Sr. Jhansi and Fr. Bosco also joined with us.

Fr. Anthaiah gave opening greetings and told us Why should we Pray to God in brief.After that we had a beautiful time of Praise & Worship lead by Stephen.Sundar gave introuduction about Theme of the program

After that Fr. Bosco explained the Theme with the Bible Scriptures and told us how this theme is releavent to this time.

After that we have Cell group prayers, we have divided people in to 8 groups and each group consists of 10 to 15 people.Cell group prayers went up to 30 to 40 Mins.

Starting with a Song , Prasie & worship, Word of God, sharing in the groups, any testimonies, praying in group and closing with a song.

After that we had some announcements about coming Cultural Exchange Program and also LTP in Hyderabad.

Fr. Bosco gave Final Blessing and after that we all meet personally and left to houses filled with JOY In our Hearts.

Youth Retreat for YOV Oct 2006

YUVA,Youth Retreat on 21 & 22 Oct 2006.

YUVA,Youth Retreat was a great success. All most 300 Youth came fromVijayawada diocease.

The Retreat started opening greetings of Most. Rev. Bishop Prakash Mallavarapu on 21st 10 AM after that we started some action songs and Fr. Balaswamy, director of Social Service Center gave a very brief introduction about theme of the Retreat " WHO AM I " and after that

Fr. Lamu Jaya Raju took first session and he gave very nice talk and told that we are children of God and God has choosen us specially with all the bible references. After that we break up for Lunch .

We stated afternoon session with Praise & worship followed by action songs and Professor Bala took session on personal development and how we can be a good citizen by following christian moral values , after that we had a tea break and time to refresh. 5.30 we started Rosary Prosession and climbed the Gunadala hill to attend the mass.

Our Bishop was already reached their to celebrate the holy Eucharist and we had a wonderful Eucharistic celebrations on Gunadala Shrine. After mass we had a Candle light procession from Top to bottom of the hill and after reaching down we call celebrated the Light festival by lighting some crakers and we had delicious fellowship meal.

After dinner we had a 45 minutes Devotional musical orchestra followed by Kaladharshini dance skit. Theme of the skit is 10 virgins waiting for the Bridgegroom and it went on 30 mins and it was coorditated by Fr. Ravi Saker , Director of Kaladharshini , Institute of Music and Fine Arts. After that program we had one skit and some songs sung by youth of different parishes of Vijayawada Diocese.

22nd October

7.30 we started with prise & worship songs and Fr. Ravi Sakher celebrated mass for us and after that Fr. M Prasad , Chairman of RCM Schools Society , vijayawada took session and conducted workshop on Whom am I and we breaked for lunch after some announcements.

Lunch was very delicious with Vijayawada Biryani and Chiken curry and after session we had some action songs and skit and finnaly Fr. Bosco took session and JESUS YOUTH and made the youth in to different groups conducted CELL Group prayer and it was so touching and most of them experience God and some even got visions and many of them took strong commitment that from now on thy will stand for the God and ready to pay what ever the Price may be.

Finally YUVA, A Youth Retreat for Youth of Vijayawada diocese became a two days JESUS YOUTH formation Program

YOV,JY Followup Prog, 1st Oct

Jesus Youth First Follow up Prayer Meeting in Vijayawada.

Prakash and Vignan reached to Gudivada on 1st October around 8 AM and visited Jesus Youth in different parishes and meet Priests , Religious and elders in Gudivada and they went to Gudlavalleru there they meet newly started paryer group.

Prayer Meeting started around 2 PM with some Action songs by Pezzonipet Parish Jesus Youth members followed by Praise & Worship ( Stella college JY / Gudivada JY).

Sharing of Word Of God by Fr. Bosco is highlight of that day and then Stefen shared his Testimony.

After that gudivada Jesus Youth presented Small Skit. Prakash explained briefly about Six pillers and how to pray in Groups( Fellowship, starting a prayer group, how to pray etc., )

After that Prakash visited Pezzonipet Parish that day.

JY Vijayawada Prog 3rd Sept

“YOV”, means “Youth” in native telugu language, and is pronounced as “YUVA”. The theme was chosen keeping in mind particularly the “Youth of Vijayawada”.

Yuva was an official one day program for the Vijayawada Diocese organized by Fr. Don Bosco (Youth director of Vijayawada diocese) with the consent and blessings of the most. Rev. Prakash Mallavarapu (Bishop of Vijayawada).

Vijayawada is one of the most urban cities in the state of Andhra Pradesh. There are many youth in this region all anxiously and eagerly waiting to know more about JY and carry on its mission in this part of Andhra.

It is with this intention that JY members from Hyderabad took it upon themselves to be an instrumental part in “YOV”, to instill in the youth a sense of direction towards Jesus, and a recognition in Jesus Youth.

“YOV” was an endeavor to bring together all the youth of Vijayawada, channelize their efforts and stir them up to “burn for the Lord”. It was also an attempt to elect representatives for all the future ministerial programs.

There was a huge gathering of almost 300 people that attended “YUVA”. Among these, most of the youth came from villages with at least 2 representatives from 80 Parishes of Vijayawada diocese, and almost 100 were from Vijayawada city parish with major roles being played by Pezzonipet and Gunadala parishes. There were also participants from Stella college and Loyola college V’wada.

The program started off at 9:30 am after some initial electricity failures. Chakry (JY-V’wada) and Vignan (JY-Hyd) started with a bang with Action songs ably supported by Chaitanya (JY-Vwada) on the keyboards and Rajesh(JY-Vwada) on the pads, while Sundar(JY-Hyd) was the MC for the day.

After the initial warm ups, there was a prayer song by the JY Stella college campus, followed by “Lighting of the prayer candle”.

Fr. Lamu Jaya Raju (Director-Pastoral Center) then gave his greetings and message to the audience. This was then followed up by a prayer dance(classical) by JY Stella college campus members.

At about 11 a.m the MC invited Vijay Anthony (JY-Hyd) to lead the members into a time of “Praise & Worship”. This was well taken by everyone and it ended with the sharing word of God inter mixed with Vijays’ personal testimony.

Soon after this most Rev. Bishop Prakash had joined in the celebrations. He presented Vijay with a momento as a small token of love and for remembrance. Bishop Prakash them gave his message in which he mentioned, that the YOUTH should become like Saints and be a living witness to others by their testimony and encouraged them to join the Jesus Youth ministry.

Annette (Full-timer JY-Hyd), on behalf of everyone, then presented thanks to Bishop and this was followed by a session on JY and its activities from Shibu( JY –Hyd)

Everyone broke for lunch at around 1.30 pm. Lunch, apparently was very delicious and liked by all. The menu consisted of chicken curry & biryani , sambar, curds and a banana. It was a memorable fellowship meal.

Immediately, after lunch there was music and some action songs by the JY of Pezzonipet parish and Stella campus members.

An half hour “Career Guidance” power point presentation was was conducted by “Disha”. They provided information about the various educational courses and the employment opportunities available for the youth.

Fr. Selvin sj (Director of AICUF from Andhra Loyola college) then presented a talk.He then divided youth in different groups on basis of Vicariates and they elected two representatives from each Vicariate.

At about 3:45 pm Shibu, conducted a session on Jesus Youth. This was a power point presentation which included a five minute movie clip about Jesus Youth and all its past present and future activities. This ideally, would have cleared any apprehensions regarding JY in the minds of all the participants.

At 4 pm, there was Eucharistic Celebrations by Fr. Don Bosco. In the homily Rev. Fr. quoted one verse in Bible which was very striking and it wasA rich young man once asked Jesus, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" (Mat 19:16).

And He said to the Youth, If you want Eternal Life come and join In JESUS YOUTH.Everyone present actively participated in the mass.

When Yuva was being planned, it was meant to be a “Vijayawada Diocese” program with a 3-hr participation of JY. But as it turned out to be “God’s ways are different”, likewise the program turned out to be 9-hr Jesus Youth Program and everybody loved it with all the speakers urging and encouraging the youth to join in Jesus Youth.

Some of the best highlights elicited from the program which inspired many were Vijay Antony’s Testimony & Shibu’s sessions on JY.

The fact that the youth were taken up so much was they repeatedly requested to have these programs once in a month and most of them expressed their willingness to join Jesus Youth. Some merchandise like JY magazines, JY Telugu Handouts were bought eagerly by some participants.

GOD has been kind to Andhra Pradesh and the very fact that wherever GOD leads the JY-Hyd members to reach out, they have always been accepted and overwhelmingly appreciated for their involvement in JY and in spreading GOD’s word.

Among the various programs organized, “YUVA” certainly stands tall, and is an inspirational testimony of the no. of youth being blessed and inducted into the JY family in Vijaywada ….. The fire is lit, “YOV” will now burn Vijayawada, let this be our sincere prayer !!!!!!