JYMACE

JYMACE

Jesus Youth of MACE, lovingly called JYMACE, is the Jesus Youth prayer group of Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam.The group had its humble beginnings in 1987, through Soney Noble chechi, who is now a mother of four and working in Hyderabad .Now it is one of the leading campus prayer groups in Kerala. All this has been possible only through the guidance of the Holy Spirit from time to time through various people henceforth. The power of the Spirit binds together the youngsters in prayer and fellowship through the prayer meetings after college hours. The faith formation that we get from the group leads us to bloom for Christ wherever we are planted.

The prayer meeting is on Wednesday 4:30- 6:00pm at Vimalagiri School , College Junction, Kothamangalam and the rest of the days’ activities are as follows:

Core Group- Monday

Music/ Audio Visual/ Outreach Ministries- Tuesday

Intercession- Thursday

Bible Ministry- Friday

What my group means to me.....

The group is really a nursery of faith formation and faith exercise. In this nursery, we are nourished with love and care and grown into little plants all set to bloom. The group equips us to live as true followers of Christ by way of the constants…Personal Prayer, Sacraments, Word of God, Fellowship, Evangelisation, Witnessing and Options for the poor. I believe that during our college days as a Jesus Youth, we move through these constants and get a formation to exercise them not only during these campus days, but also beyond…to bloom wherever we are planted.

That is the beauty of His call.. Once He calls and we respond, He just keeps calling, He will never gives up on us, no matter what. As in Phil 3:14, “So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God’s call through Christ Jesus to the life above”. This should exactly be our thrive in life, the life with Jesus. Lets keep running the race, with all the assistance of our Master.

Another means in which we grow is through the various JesusYouth programmes, during our golden days in the group…These programmes, I believe, really draw us closer to the Lord. This is more of a polishing, which the Lord does on us…Through these programmes, we learn a lot, we pick up a lot of lessons. Be it attending the programme or helping out in it, we do grow a lot. These are avenues, through which the Lord equips us. As it is said, He doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the called. So please try to be a part of as many programmes as you can; in everything, we pick up something, we learn something that will help us help ourselves and others at the groups…Also, we meet up with many ppl, who can guide us properly.

The most beautiful part of our group is the fellowship, which after immediate passing out, we may feel we have lost, but I wouldn’t agree on that. Our fellowship is kept alive through our very own e-fellowship in yahoo groups- JYMACE, and our loving juniors do keep in touch. This beautiful fellowship in the Spirit is what keeps us all together.

With love,
Nishachechi.