{"id":366,"date":"2018-10-13T01:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stthomasjsoclondon.org\/jsocldn\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2019-03-16T23:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:25:15","slug":"youth-association","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasjsoclondon.org\/jsocldn\/connect-with-us\/youth-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

St Thomas JSOC Youth Association\u2019s First Meet and Greet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date of event: 9\/3\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by – Alan Kakkassery, Shaun\nPhilip, and Joel Joby<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome\n& Introductions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The youth association\u2019s first meet and greet successfully began at 4:30 pm on Saturday the 9th<\/sup> of march. We started off with a prayer. Then to ensure everyone was comfortable and familiar with each other the coordinators started off with an ice breaking session, this involved everyone saying their name\u2019s, what their occupation\/education is, and an interesting fact about themselves and it allowed everyone to feel more at ease! Soon after, the coordinators excited us with an ice breaker game of zip\/zap\/bong, it was an extremely fun game that really made everyone come out of their shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritual\nMessage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we were fortunate enough to hear\na few wise words from our vicar, Rev Fr.Dr.Biji Markose, for about 30 minutes where\nhe discussed the life of Samson, from the book of judges, and how he resembles\nmankind today and our sins. It was an enlightening speech and it forced us to\nthink about the way we lead our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fellowship Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then right after, the coordinators\nput us into 3 random teams of five people and began a series of activities in\nwhich each team had to earn points to win! The first game was Pictionary and it\ninvolved many characters from the bible whom we had to draw and make our teams\nguess. The next game was pinning a feature of a historical biblical figure to\nthe correct place, whilst one team member was blindfolded, and the team would\nguide them to the correct place. Then before breaking up for a 10-minute break,\nthe final game involved imitations of people within our community and the best\nimpression won the point!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After our 10-minute break, we\nreturned to one more game, this involved the coordinators asking bible related\nquestions and the first two teams with the correct answers brought up a team\nmember to be blindfolded and correctly guided to a balloon which represented\nthe points. It was a very exciting session and truly every youth member had\nplenty of fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q&A with\nVicar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then before ending our action-packed\nsession, we had a very interesting and insightful question and answer session\nwith Fr. Biji, it involved many detailed questions that were anonymously asked\nfrom our youth group that was not usually asked within our society and our\nvicar, Fr. Biji, managed to deliver the answers very pleasantly and in a way\nthe youth community felt interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our session came to an end at 7:00pm,\nand majority of the youth members stayed for the evening prayer conducted by\nour vicar, Fr.Biji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report by\nAlin Aji (PR Team)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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