Salve'12 Teens Summer Program

Salve'12

A 3 day Friendship with Jesus program – Salve 2012 was conducted by the Teens Ministry at Carmel Convent School, Banerghatta road for a group of 30 children from various parts of Bangalore, ranging from Classes VIII, IX, X and XI. Many of them had attended our previous summer camps. We were blessed to have the presence of Sr.Josna, the Principal of Carmel Convent School, all through the program. Fr. Antony Mahendran, Asst Parish Priest of Christha Prabhalaya Ephiphany Church and Fr. Varghese, National Pastor of JY celebrated the Holy Mass for us. Vinu (JY Teens National Team member) and Bangalore Teens Ministry members coordinated the program. The program consisted of music, prayers, sessions, activities, sharings and Eucharistic Adoration. As part of Outreach, we visited Swanthana, Home for mentally/physically challenged, run by the St.Camillus Sisters, on Sarjapur Road and spent time with the children there. The children and the volunteers treasured the time spent there as one of the most memorable moments of their lives.

one day program at Notre Dame Academy School

The JY Bangalore Teens Ministry conducted a one day program at Notre Dame Academy School, Choodasandra on February 12th for a group of 32 students from Classes IV and V, at the request of School Principal, Sr.Manisha. The program consisted of music, activities, sessions, prayers and the children along with their class teachers liked it thoroughly and were specially touched by a testimony shared by Meetu.

'METANOIA 20011' Program

Teens Ministry of Bangalore has organized teens sumer camp 'METANOIA 20011', a 3 days program for class 7th to 10th students from May 19th to 22nd at St.Antony's School, Carmel Convent Campus, Near Dairy Circle, Bangalore.


Hi Every one,

First and foremost I thank our almighty God for His blessing and making us an instrument to conduct this program in a successful manner.

We feel that Metanoia was a very graceful program. Each and every thing was taken care and guided by Holy Spirit. I remember that in the initial stage we discussed and cancel this program and after that we sat together and prayed and we got the word of God,"He said to the crowd: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'It's going to rain,' and it does".Luke 12:54, then we decided to go forth with this program. I believe that this is the beauty of this program, we feel many places that this program was chosen by God and his words helped me to take any challenges or burden.

Thanks to our Metanoia fireflies…………….. J

Jomon you coordinated the team very well, keep it up, good work.
Deril you always run behind this program for printing, program schedule, stage etc etc....i think most of the participants like the way u handled the things ............

John - don’t know what to say...everyone know about the program and resources....everything soo good...your vision and coordination is soo beautiful...
Josna - you did a great job..within one week you found it out our basic money...i remember that in habba program we specially prayed ring rosary..he hee..
Anfret- the way of Intercession is entirely different...ur excel preparation was marvelous...in that way we collected the lot of prayers...
Divya....really appreciable your commitment...for this program u have taken 2 days of leave...kitchen,registration,finance,calling parents every were u did a great job....
Stephy..really good work....appreciate your commitment around the intercession....ur strong decisions may help to completing the intercession sheet......we all are praying for ur exam.

Feena...know that u help the finance team.....and also..accommodation,kitchen etc...
Thoma...always ready to do any thing....i remember that in waste box written like Use me.....in the same way he is ready to do any thing for God.....keep it up.
Anto(kalki)..your help and anticipating things helped very much the team to settle everything on time........really good keep it..
Pradeep.....remember that we 3 are in the night intercession, its start 11pm but u along site more time in the chapel,i wake up only in the morning 5.your straight and forward decisions soo good........

Joemon- you came last day only ...but you reminded us that in the first day on ways u very much alert about music team and also contact with them etc.

Merin-i dont much about you,but your boldness is appreciable....u were very much active in the kitchen....
Shinto-most of the time you were helping in kitchen...good.....praying for u
Meetu -thank u for helping us in ur best way......
Cini-always welcome....ur interaction with teens was so interesting and good...keep it up
Tulip-MC-ing was nice.....ur smile so cute....he heee
Justin(UK)- From the starting time itself your presence was so helpful....

Malcome-exam time also u spend time for this program.... praying for u...study well
Prasant-kitchen ministry was so good...i saw many are enjoyed in cutting and ariyall etc....good coordination....keep it up..(2day he is going to join salesians of donbosco seminary....plz remember him in ur prayers).
Sabish-Thank for ur support and dealing with Sound system,bed pillow etc.. Pls continue ur good work……….
Fr.Showri..was very busy with exams, but still he spend his valuable time in conducting confession....tanking u father for ur spiritual guidelines and support..
Manoj cht....remember u also........ for ur prayers and guidance……
Anittakutty...i saw your mail...u not a volunteer...a soldier of God.......
Maria kutty....know that..u prayed well allover the program....

Cini(nurse)…...thx for First aid u provided....

Joshva and Allan....remember for ur presence in intercession, kitchen etc...keep it up.....don't go back....stay with His Spirit...u can do many things....
Jincy -u were very active in music team and action songs
Rincy-u help kitchen ministry lots……
Sumi- ur peaceful and prayerful presence were very much supportive in kitchen and volunteers ministry...keep it up.
Clinton- ur commitment for taking photograph and futures dreams are good...continue and make it in a different ways to reach out teenagers.
Suraj- believe that you completed the report in a better way......pray more and stay with His spirit.
Jubeesh-your presence and support always helped the program team....thanks....GBU.

Nancy- ur interaction with teenagers and parents were awesome……… continue good work……..

Lourde-decoration was beautiful..2 night adoration decoration's u did was a great work....
Sr Josna -I don't know how to thanks her...whenever we are week then she comes up with great ideas to support us…..she was the one who told everyday how much of rice and vegetables needed…..
Sr Rosemary and other sister - remember you both for helping us around liturgy and in music team etc..
Subin-remember that your presence in mobilization and kitchen......
Ashis and Anilla-your presence very helpful for music, praise and worship and adoration……
Deepak-many of the hostelers, parents and teens visit pro-life exhibition.....

Shobin chetaa...Thx for your prayers and support

Mathew chetaa...thx for spending ur valuable 2 days with us…..

Denny chtn and Deena chy...thx for ur support and prayers

Justin and Sony..thx for helping in the kitchen.

Sorry if we missed any one of u all…………

Remember all participants,volunteers,Resources,music team,audio visual team etc in your prayers........

St.Maria Goretti pray for us.

Schoenstatt school Program Report

Praise the Lord

St. John 6:68-69
“Simon Peter answered Jesus, Lord to who would we go? You have the words of eternal life and now we believe and know that you are the holy one who has come from God”.

On March 12th there was a one day Jesus Youth program conducted in Schoenstatt st. Mary’s school. The program was conducted for the catechism students from class 1 to 10. The program was conducted as a spiritual preparation before the final exam which would start from March 15th. The program started at 9am and ended at 4:30pm. At first there was a small prayer conducted by the students of the school. Then the program was proceeded by the Jy. There was icebreaking by bombing the city. The sessions were conducted separately for the students of 1st to 4th and 5th to 10th. There were many beautiful sessions. The session on Mother Mary was very much touching. Many action songs were taught, most of the students noted down the songs. God’s love was very nicely explained. There was a short session on confession and the sisters were surprised by seeing the number of students who came for confession. There was a session conducted separately for the boys and girls regarding the need to keep ourselves holy and the ways to keep our selves holy.
The program was concluded by Holy Mass.
-Maria Michael 9th std (Schoenstatt school)

Mar 12th - Teens Program @Schoenstatt St'Mary's school dhasarahalli

Around 300 students from class of 1 to 10th have attended the program which was scheduled on 12th Mar 2011. We have conducted the program in this school for the first time. A small prayer group is already functioning in this school and Maria, an active JY teen and her class teacher are coordinating the prayer meeting group and this program.

Venue:-Schoenstatt St'Mary's school,8th mile tumkur road, nagasandra,bangalore 73 (near dhasarahalli)
Root- Madivala/white field to Majestic
Majestic to Dhasarahalli 8th main / nellamangala Bus no:263G,263B,258C Platform no:20th[get down schoenstatt school / 8th mile]

Snehadan orphanage Program

snehadan Sarjapur(Date:23/Jan/2011(sunday))






Wow a great experience to all.....

Catihisam students program @Carmeleram

Venue: Carmelaram parish

Date:19/Dec/2010

Our carmellaram parish program went well, there were around 200 children’s who attended this program from the class of 1st to 11th Std. We divided this group into four (1st to 3rd,5th to 8th,9 to 11th and holy communion students)

Really great experiences of time spend together with this entire group, especially Holy Communion childrens.6 out of 23 shared about their dream of becoming nuns and priest.

Around more than 15 volunteers helped up from different ministries. The fathers, brothers and sisters were very supportive and helpful ....Thank you for all.....God bless u and reward you....

Cloony school program

This is two day school retreat program at Cloony School. Around 400 plus students had attended. We have divided this group into English and Kannada. Specially thanks for all volunteers’ from Bangalore and (Shiju chtn,Malvin chtn and Albert chtn).

RTC school program (Frazer Town)Bangalore

Date: 7th August'10
Our RTC school program went well. Around 220 teens had attended from the class of 3rd to 8th.This was the first JY program in that school. Most of the students are having different problems. We (pradeep,thoma,jomon,anto,suraj,tulip,Bagia and Prince) were there for the program . We started with an action song after that a session, but the students were not involving with us more. And we saw that with the help of word of God they were able to come back closer to Lord and enjoyed their session. Then we divided the group into two. But we felt that most of the faces were having worries and burdens...but at the end of the program they all were happy and dancing with the songs mandalenaa,trig trig etc.....special congrats for each and every one.

All this programs are not simple…We are the disciples of God...so God will send us to a school or a program with a special intention...to save all souls (include us).

St. Michaels School Program, Geddalahalli, Kothanur

Around 60 students from 8, 9 and 10 standards of St. Michael's School attended the teens program held in the institution on 31 July 2010. Topics emphasized in the one-day program are –
(1) God My Loving Father + His Plan For Me
(2) Holy Spirit My Best Friend
(3) Living As God’s Children In Today’s World
The program had its share of fun, including many songs and plays etc.

St. Charles school program Kamanahalli

St. Charles school teen’s program went well. Their were around 150 teenagers who attend this program. The program headed by Jesus youth families. One day program covered the topics like God’s love, respect parents, teachers, use of money, mobile phone, internet etc, sin and repentance and Holy Spirit.Joemon,Ronita and Akash handled the music and our Maria shared her testimony. This is a beautiful experience for us to spend a full day program with our Jesus Youth families (Mathew chtn and chchi and jo kuttan, Jude chtn and chchi and Mon, Joe chtn and July chchi).After Holy Spirit session fill with the song and we experience about the showering of Holy Spirit.

Chalo Training program

Participants from different parts of India reached Bangalore on 29 April 2010 for the Chalo Training program. The event, in which 15 teens were trained, was hosted in Carmel Convent School. It went very well, and the agenda included staging of many new songs. In the morning of 1 May, around 20 people, including the participants and leaders started the journey from Bangalore to Jarkhand. And they returned on 22 May. One of the participants – Rhea – was from Bangalore.

Reach 10-Report

Below is a brief write-up by Cini Mathew who was part of the programme team for REACH '10.

One week before REACH ‘10 was about to start, nothing was in place; mobilization was not done, pamphlets were not printed, resources were not finalised. Nothing seemed to be in place, but still each member of the teens team had their hope on the Lord. REACH started on Thursday 4:30 pm with the registration. On 1st of May, not even 1 person was confirmed and on 6th May we had 68 participants registered. The first day just passed by, with no one really seeming to be interested.
The second day started with lots of confusion and lots of tension, but still no one lost hope. Amidst all these confusion, Lord showed His mercy upon each one of us. The session on God's love (which was the first session) was liked by all. Then was an activity where the teens themselves prepared and presented skit. Each team presented a skit, and it was well accepted by all. Then was the time of some game and enjoyment with paper dressing. After all this masti was the session and workshop on Confidence Building, which gave the teens an insight on how they could do great things with the help of Lord. After this, the teens attended a session and video presentation on Teen Saints followed by a session on Mother Mary which was taken by Deril (he is now doing his 1st yr BCA). The session was so well accepted by the teens that one of them even said “I want to be like this brother (Deril), when I grow up". It was followed by the Adoration taken by Br.George. It was such a beautiful time of Adoration that every participant felt the touch of Lord; they all said that they were able to feel the love of Christ.
The third day started well with God's grace, with a beautiful time of Praise and Worship, then moving on to Sin and Temptation, the session taken by Teena, followed by a session on Prolife. Then there was a session on 10 commandments taken by Jithin, and then was the time of confession. Many participants said that they were able to make a very good confession. They were able to open up their hearts after a long time and were so much relaxed. After the confession and Holy Mass, the teens attended a session on Holy Spirit, handled by Br.George. This was the day when God's grace and mercy was even more evident. Until 5:00 we were lagging behind by 1 hr, but by the end of the day all the session were over by 8:30 and we had time to even celebrate a teen's birthday and then clean the entire hall and go to sleep by 11:00. Such was the mercy of our Lord. He never left alone anyone of us, be it volunteers or teens. He kept each one of us in His care. The Inner healing session on that day was made more beautiful by the beautiful decoration done by the audio visual ministry and lead by Jithin.
The fourth day, we saw all the participants jumping around with joy after the anointing of the Holy Spirit lead by Jose Sebastian. Many volunteers, who were asked to lay their hands on the teens and pray, themselves felt the power of the Spirit flowing through their body. The anointing worship was followed by a session on the Word of God. Then there was an activity where the teens were asked to publish a newspaper on their past three days at the Camp. The response was awesome. Lord gave the grace that each and every teenager, all the 68 participants were involved in making the newspaper for their group. Total 6 papers were published, all with different names and unique creative ideas. At the end of the day, the parents also gathered to bless their children, they joined us for mass, lunch and then for a session on family values.

Over all it was a beautiful experience for each one part of the program, be it the volunteer or the participant. The Music ministry gave a very lively ending to the programme with very good action songs. The song "Chik Chik Chang" written and composed by Becky of Chennai was liked by all the participants and their parents. The Audio Visual ministry made the programme more colourful with meaningful skits in between sessions. The best thing was that, all the big resources were listed for the program, but everyone was busy at that time, so everyone part of team became the resources. The testimonies shared by the leaders of the Bangalore teens team was most inspiring. There was one girl Maria who was a participant of Philia'09. She gave testimonies that made each one to stand in awe of our Lord. His mercies never cease. She gave 3-4 testimonies without preparing. Lord Jesus was merciful on each one of us.
I would like to end this write-up by telling the line that Tulip got while she was preparing for MC - "God does not choose the qualified, but qualifies the chosen". It was indeed true in case of everyone part of REACH '10. He moulded and used each one of us. Glory and Praise be to our great and mighty Lord. His mercies never cease. So much of joy is there in my heart right now as I write this. Praise the Lord forever. Please continue praying for each participant of REACH and Chalo. The participants of both the programs touched all of our heart so much, that their love is still fresh in our hearts and mind.

REACH '10

A summer programme for teens – REACH ’10 - was organized by the Bangalore Teens ministry from 6th to 9th May in Carmel Convent School, Bangalore. The theme of the program was ‘Extend your Boundaries’. The programme was attended by 68 teens from different schools and parishes of Bangalore

Reach'10 Fireflies

Date:May 6th 4.30pm to 9th 4.30pm

Venue:Carmel Convent School Jayanagar

Welcome all High School Students

Contact:Jomon-9880795754

Hi all,

I’m still thinking of Reach'10.. and how well it was run. In the initial stage of planning for this program we had run into a lot of complexities, and even came close to canceling it. I believe that God had already planned and selected this program, and he organized it for us when we were helpless.

Most of the teenagers who attended reach ’10 developed a personal relationship with Jesus.

And this time around, we got many volunteers who did their very best to conduct the events. All of you know that in the beginning we were not getting the resource persons, but on the right time right people came. We were undecided about the counseling, and on Saturday at 11 am we called Mathew chettan and asked, and he volunteered to come at 2 pm! Many attendees shared their life’s problems in the counseling session.

In the accommodation hall nobody had to give much attention to disciplining the teens. It was all so silent and quiet. I believe that this is the work of Holy Spirit. Our program time Intersession was the beauty of this program. Actually there was nothing else to help us. The team’s unity and support is really appreciable.

Feena, you have done a very good job in a limited time.... we did not face any problems in finance. Really good work. Josna and John were the backbone support for program team, booklet and Intercession. Thomas was always at hand ready to do anything...I don’t know what to say....Father(Showraiah) you spend more time with us..thanks lot.. this help us to prepare the program schedule more...Shinto we miss you... Hope you all remember that the program’ name and Word of God were suggested by Neema.... also specially remember that Jomons, Deril, Jincy, Meetu, Sini, Tulip, Levin, Jubish,Benny, Nancy, Lijo and all group leaders,Music and Audio visual team. Presently most of your presence is not in the program, but your valuable prayers and support helped us a lot....

St.Dominic Savio pray for us[Reach program patron saint]

Mother Mary pray for us

-Prince Abraham.

Philia Follow up program

About 80 teenagers attended the Philia follow-up program on 17 October 2009. It was a really beautiful reunion with music, group activities, talks, Holy Mass and adoration.
Philia Presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdf74hIQXlY

St Francies Orphange

St. Francis Orphanage
A one day program was organized for students of St. Francis orphanage on 9 October 2009. About 15 students attended, and we had a great time with them. They even taught us some action songs. The presence of Beena chechi and nursing students from Narayana Hridayala added colour to the program.

St Thomas Parish Teens Program

St. Thomas Parish Teens Program
A one day Teens program was conducted in St. Thomas Parish on 5th October 2009. Around 150 participants came from different Foranes. Its went well with music, activities, songs, talks etc.

Santhom Parish Program

A teens gathering for students from 1 to 10 standards was conducted on 2nd Aug 2009. It was a 3 hours program, and we covered the topics of 'friendship with Jesus' (friendship day message), story of saints, music and games.

Cloony Convent School program

A teens retreat was organized in Cloony school on July 1st & 2nd. Around 200 teens attended this retreat.It was a beautiful experience to all. Special thanks to campus ministry for helping and supporting us.