JY Prayer House Inaguration
A Report By Hyderabad Jesus YouthAfter 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.
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.
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